When Tommy and Ruthie found that the yellow part of their eggs was green outside they were much surprised.
“Be they raw?” asked Tommy.
“Hard-boiled,” answered Miss Dorothea, and Tommy ate his egg quickly, all by itself.
After this he gave back his slice of bread and butter. “Don’t want ’e now, I wants a piece of cake.”
“You must eat the bread and butter first,” he was told.
“No, shan’t,” he said, and passed it on to Ruthie, who could not take it from him because Miss Margaret shook her head.
“Shan’t eat ’en,” Tommy stated, emphatically.
But this was a case in which Miss Margaret undoubtedly held the upper hand. She made no reply to Tommy’s assertion, and when he tried to extract a piece of cake from the basket it was placed beyond his reach.
“Shan’t eat ’en,” he said again, but again no notice was taken of his words. Defiantly he picked up the bucket and spade and began to dig in the sand.
A tempting row of Cornish splits, halved and spread with jam and cream, was prepared by Miss Dorothea.