“Oh! please, dear mamma,” said Harry, “I’m so hungry and so is poor Eily.”
His mother was too happy to scold him, and his father laughed heartily at the whole affair. For Harry had neither sisters nor brothers.
While the boy was being stripped and re-dressed in dry clothes, the dog threw herself in front of the kitchen fife.
Presently they both had supper. If Harry was pale while playing at bubble-ships in the water-vat, he was rosy enough now, and verily his cheeks shone in the lamplight.
Before he knelt down that night by his mother’s knee to say his prayers, she asked him if he had done much wrong to-day.
“Oh! yes, dear mamma,” was the reply, “I did tease Towsie so.”