32/33 Then amazement gave place to horror. "You don't mean to tell me that you raised those rusks with the stuff that was in that old yellow can ?" "Yes, I did," faltered Felicity, beginning to look scared. "Why, ma, what was the matter with it ?" "Matter! That stuff was TOOTH-POWDER, that's what it was. Your Cousin Myra broke the bottle her tooth-powder was in when she was here last winter and I gave her that old can to keep it in. She forgot to take it when she went away and I put it on that top shelf. |