Go ahead!" said Perks, grudgingly.
"Well, then," said Bobbie, fumbling miserably, yet not without hope, in her tightly stuffed pocket, "we wrote down all the things everybody said when they gave us the things, with the people's names, because Mother said we ought to be careful--because--but I wrote down what she said--and you'll see." But Bobbie could not read the labels just at once.

She had to swallow once or twice before she could begin.
Mrs.Perks had been crying steadily ever since her husband had opened the wash-house door.

Now she caught her breath, choked, and said:-- "Don't you upset yourself, Missy.

_I_ know you meant it kind if he doesn't." "May I read the labels ?" said Bobbie, crying on to the slips as she tried to sort them.

"Mother's first.