"Is there anything serious the matter that you have been quarrelling about, or are you only ill and nervous ?" "I nevah was so mizzible in all my life," said Lloyd.

"My throat is soah and my eyes ache, and I can't help cryin' if anybody looks at me." "That's just the way I feel," said Eugenia, still dabbing her eyes with her handkerchief, "and my head aches, besides." "I think we are all three taking bad colds," said Joyce, from her hammock.

"I haven't reached the crying stage yet, but I'm fast on the way toward it.

Betty will be the only one able to go to the party to-night, and our tissue-paper dresses are _so_ pretty." Mrs.Sherman looked from one flushed face to another with a puzzled expression.

"I don't know what to think," she said, "but if I were not sure that you have been no place where you possibly could have been exposed, I should be afraid that you are all taking the measles.