So he drank the water Sister carried out to him without a word
because he was cross, and when we're cross we do not always
remember to be polite.
Sister went steadily at the weeding again, and after a while
Jimmie finished the lettuce, and began to weed an onion row
himself.
"You can stop if you want to now," he said to Sister presently.
"Don't you want to play? I can finish these."
"I'm not going to stop till they're all done," announced Sister.
"Molly says the only way to get anything finished is to use plenty
of per--perservance!"
Jimmie laughed and glanced at her curiously.
"I guess you mean PERSEVERANCE" he suggested, "Well, Sister, you
are certainly fine help. It begins to look as though I could go
swimming this afternoon after all."
Surely enough, when Mother Morrison called to them that lunch was
ready, they were weeding the last onion row.
"I can finish that in fifteen minutes," declared Jimmie gaily.
"You're a brick, Sister! When you want me to do something for you,
just mention it, will you?"
Sister beamed. She was hot and tired and she knew her face and
hands were streaked and dirty. Brother had spent the morning
playing with Nellie Yarrow and Ellis Carr, and Nellie's aunt had
taken them to the drug store for ice-cream soda.
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