"Really, I didn't know I was so tired," she thought; "maybe my age is telling on me the way Aunt Maria says!"
Her weary little head began to nod, and she was soon fast asleep. She hadn't been asleep long before she was aroused by a great racket.
"Click, clack! Click-ety-clack! Splash!"
"Come," she said to herself, rather sharply, "I do believe you've been asleep, Mary Frances! You'd better get to work, child."
"Click! Clack!"
Again came the sound.
With her sleepy lids half open she glanced toward the table, and such a sight she never saw! She sat up with mouth and eyes wide open, but nobody paid any attention to her.
There were the dishes jumping higgledy-piggledy, pell-mell into the dish pan.