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t he was not likely to keep. And so Judy went to the store, and by the time she returned home she did not feel quite so angry with Tom. Perhaps her mother hoped this would be the case when she sent her little daughter. It is always well to wait and think when one feels angry, before saying things that afterward one will be sorry for having spoken. "Judy, I've been thinking," said Mrs. Tewsbury, as the girl entered the kitchen, "that we'll teach Tom a lesson. Shall we?" "What kind of a lesson, mamma?" asked Judy. "A good lesson, of course. Now, when he comes home he'll expect to find you cross, and perhaps sulky with him. Suppose, instead, he finds you smiling and with a nice little apple turnover that you have made for him; what do you suppose he will think? Why, that you are too good a girl to be treated so badly; and, perhaps, too, if he sees you smiling and loving, he will realize how much better it is to be that way than selfish as he has been." "Oh, mamma!" And now there were no frowns on Judy's rosy, dimpled face; nothing but smiles. To make a turnover was a delightful treat in itself. But to help Tom to be a nice boy was more of a satisfaction. So the little girl started to work, and under her mother's tuition soon had a very wonderful-looking turnover made and baked. [Illustration: The frowns had all left.] "I'd most like to put salt in instead of sugar, just to pay Tom up," Judy thought to herself; and then a better feeling came to her and she added: "Oh, no. I wouldn't, 'cause that wouldn't be right. I want Tom to think I'm as nice as Daisy's brother thinks she is." Master Tom came home whistling shortly after the dainty had been removed from the oven. He thought Judy would be waiting for him with angry words. So she was waiting for him, but with a beautiful smile, a rosy face, and on a plate in her hand what seemed to Tom a very delicious tit-bit. "I made it--made it for you, all by myself. Mamma said I could." "Oh, Judy! And I wouldn't take you with me!" exclaimed Tom regretfully. "But you will next time, if I'm good; won't you, Tom?" said Judy, coaxingly. "As true as my name's Tom Tewsbury. I say, Judy, it was good of you to make this for me, when I don't deserve it, but I won't forget it of you." And Judy felt well paid for her turnover. HELPFUL AND HAPPY. "I am so little!" sighed Helen, "Tell me, dear mamma, the way, How to make somebody happy;
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