“If she doesn’t get them done soon, Mary Marie will lose her bath,” whispered Tommy Pin Cushion, giggling, and he began to recite,—

“Oh, Missy, may I go in to swim?

Oh, yes, my darling rub-dub;

Hang your clothes on a towel-rack limb,

But don’t go near the bath-tub.”

Whispered Tommy Pin Cushion

“Tommy Pin Cushion!” exclaimed Mary Frances, picking him up and putting him on the window sill.