"O that's so," said Beth. "Let's hurry. I promised to take care of grandmother," she added, in a remorseful tone.
But nothing had happened, and the picture proved a great success, many of them being sold at the fair.
"I don't like it much," said Beth, when she saw one, "for it reminds me of how I forgot to take care of my Grandmother Van Stork."
"It will do you good, I trust," said her mother.
"It'll improve my thinkery, I hope," said Beth.
A heartache when the heart is young,
Seems quite too big to bear;
But when it ends in laughter,
Away goes every care.
When they started to return the next day, Beth in triumph mounted Ninkum. She had a little difficulty in turning around to wave a farewell to dear grandmother on the porch, because the pony took this opportune time to munch the grass at the road-side, and Beth nearly went over his head.