“On the pantry shelf, just where you told me,” answered Migwan.
“Well,” said her mother, “I told you wrong. The iodine is up on my wash-stand.”
“Then what was in the brown bottle on the pantry shelf?” asked Migwan. The bottle was produced.
“Why,” said Mrs. Gardiner, “that’s walnut stain, guaranteed not to wear off!”
Then there was a laugh at Migwan’s expense!
“Old Migwan Hubbard
She went to the cupboard,
To get iodine in a phial,
But she couldn’t read plain,
And brought walnut stain,
And now her poor patient looks vile!”
“You’re even now,” said Gladys, “you’ve each scored a trick.”
“‘We do this to each other!’” said Migwan and Hinpoha in the same breath, and locked fingers and made a wish according to the time-honored custom.