"Hush, don't say anything." William scowled and made an exclamation.

"The old--" "Hush!" whispered his mother again; "go up to the house and get the sweetened water.

I've mixed another jug." "Where is he ?" demanded William.
"I dunno.

He ain't to the store." William strode off across the field, and he searched through the house with an angry stamping and banging of doors, but he could not find his father or the doughnuts.

"Father!" he called, in an angry shout, standing in the doorway, "Father!" But there was no reply, and he went back to the others with the jug of sweetened water.