But not a drop of salt water out of Ned's little tear-buckets ever fell into the bowl.
As soon as it was put it under his eyes Ned always stopped crying. The little fish was never bought. Ann said he could not live in the bowl without any salt water to swim in.
But Ned was cured of crying. Tom could not call him a cry-baby any more.
When Ned heard of other little boys who cried very often, he always told their mothers about his sister Ann's big white bowl, and the funny way he had been cured of being a cry-baby.
—FLORENCE H. BIRNEY.
