Snap volunteered to go with the grocer, and between them they soon had Mammy Shrader at her home and lying on a couch. Shep hurried home and told his father the particulars of what had occurred.
"I will drive over and see her," said the doctor, and as his horse was hitched up he went immediately.
"She is suffering from a sprain and from the jar," said the physician, after an examination. "She must take it easy for a week or so." Then a neighbor, who had dropped in, said she would look after the patient during that time.
"Carl Dudder ought to be made to pay for this," said Doctor Reed.
"The Dudders won't pay anything—Mr. Dudder is as miserly as they make him, even if he is well off," said Whopper.
"Perhaps he can be forced to pay," replied Snap.
When Carl Dudder heard that a doctor had been called in to attend Mammy Shrader he was much frightened. He went to consult Ham Spink about it. The two were hand-in-glove in everything.
"Are they sure you threw the snowball?" asked Ham Spink, pointedly.
"They say they saw me."
"Who says so?"