Mamma looked very severely over the fence, but no one was there; so she took the shoes and stockings up-stairs and showed them to Johnny. “Oh!” said Johnny.
She told him where she had found them; and then she put them away in the drawer, and brought out Johnny’s old brown moccasins and a pair of rather old brown stockings. “You shall wear these to-day!” said Mamma.
“But why?” said Johnny. “I like my red shoes and white stockings best.”
“But you took them out and left them in the sand box!” said Mamma.
“But I did forget!” said Johnny.
“But this will help you to remember!” said Mamma.
And it did.