"Oh, well, I know what I can do. I will buy him something to take home to his mother, and that will be just as good."
During this time the two children had been devouring the candy, and soon had finished the last [152]piece. "Do you want to fish in the pond?" Edna asked the little girl.
"Yeth," she answered bashfully.
"Then come on." She was given the pole and with a rapturous giggle drew forth another package which proved to contain two little cakes, which soon followed the way of the candy.
"Now they must have some ice-cream," decided Jennie.
"You don't suppose it will make them sick, do you?" said Dorothy.
"Of course not. It hasn't made us sick, and why should it make them? We have eaten twice as much stuff as they have."
This silenced Dorothy, and the children were made happy by being served with two saucers of ice-cream which they ate solemnly, aware that they were being watched by their benefactors.
When the last drop had vanished Jennie and Edna each took her last nickel and gave it to the children. "Now," said they, "this is for you to spend anyway you like."
"And this," said Dorothy, bringing forth her ten cents, "is for you to spend for your mother. Now don't forget," she charged the boy. "You understand it is to buy something for your mother."