It would not be honest, and besides nobody would believe you.
Dick mixed up lemon-juice and sugar and a little of the juice of the red flannel that Noel's throat was done up in.

It comes out beautifully in hot water.

Noel took this and he liked it.

Noel's own idea was liquorice-water, and we let him have it, but it is too plain and black to sell in bottles at the proper price.
Noel liked H.O.'s medicine the best, which was silly of him, because it was only peppermints melted in hot water, and a little cobalt to make it look blue.

It was all right, because H.O.'s paint-box is the French kind, with Couleurs non Veneneuses on it.