| And then Aunt Dosy and Aunt Posy began to cry and say, “Oh, dear, what shall we do!” They cried so hard that their caps fell off, and then they said: “We will send for Dr. Funnyman.” |
| So Aunt Dosy and Aunt Posy went to London to buy the Laughing Medicine. And the Doctor sent Barbara—what do you think?—not a bottle of medicine, but |
| His naughty little boy Tommy to play with her. Tommy looked very funny. He had a frog in one pocket and a guinea-pig in the other, and directly Barbara saw him |
| She began to laugh. And she laughed and laughed, and all the time [opposite] |
| And then Tommy showed her how to climb trees, but |
| She fell down, and then she began to laugh so much that |
| This time she got so fat, all the buttons came off the back of her frock. |
| Then they ran races round the garden till Barbara’s cheeks got quite red, and |
| Tommy showed her how to play leap-frog, and she was so hungry at tea-time that |
| She ate twenty-two pieces of bread-and-butter and seventeen pieces of bread-and-jam, and drank ten cups of milk, and |