“No more,” answered his mother.
“All wite. Den I go to bed!”
He slipped down from his chair, as Ted began putting the buttons from his mother’s mending bag into two piles, so that he and Janet might go on with the game.
“Give sister a kiss!” begged Janet of Trouble.
He held back a moment, as if he had not quite forgiven her for not letting him have all the fun he wanted, and then he held up his chubby face.
“That’s a good boy!” said Janet as she kissed him. “I’ll let you have a lot of red buttons in the morning.”
“Night-night!” called Trouble to Ted, as the older boy began counting out the buttons.
“Night-night,” echoed Ted, as he wiggled his fingers in a funny fashion at Trouble.
As Mrs. Martin took William up to bed, Ted and Janet started their game over again. It was a simple little game. They spread out on the table all the buttons from mother’s bag. Then they divided them into two piles, each taking one.
Janet would then take a button from her pile and hold it in her hand with her fingers closed over it so Teddy could not see it.