Bobbie's handkerchief served as first aid to the injured, and they all went home.
Lessons were more than usually difficult to Bobbie that day.

Indeed, she disgraced herself so deeply over a quite simple sum about the division of 48 pounds of meat and 36 pounds of bread among 144 hungry children that Mother looked at her anxiously.
"Don't you feel quite well, dear ?" she asked.
"I don't know," was Bobbie's unexpected answer.

"I don't know how I feel.

It isn't that I'm lazy.

Mother, will you let me off lessons to-day?
I feel as if I wanted to be quite alone by myself." "Yes, of course I'll let you off," said Mother; "but--" Bobbie dropped her slate.