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He was ju hi his face and his hands and his neck and his nose, they were crawling up his pants’ legs and stinging and crawling down the back of his neck and stinging The

Pa and Uncle Henry took him by the arms and ran him away from the yellow jackets’ nest They undressed him, and his

clothes were full of yellow jackets and their stings were swelling up all over hi him and they shook the bees out of his clothes and then they dressed hiain and sent him to the house

Laura and Mary and the cousins were playing quietly in the yard, when they heard a loud, blubbering cry Charley ca into the yard and his face was so swollen that the tears could hardly squeeze out of his eyes

His hands were puffed up, and his neck was puffed out, and his cheeks were big, hard puffs His fingers stood out stiff and swollen There were little, hard, white dents all over his puffed-out face and neck

Laura and Mary and the cousins stood and looked at him

Ma and Aunt Polly ca out of the house and asked him as the matter Charley blubbered and bawled Ma said it was yellow jackets She ran to the garden and got a big pan of earth, while Aunt Polly took Charley into the house and undressed him

Theypanful of mud, and plastered him all over with it They rolled him up in an old sheet and put him to bed His eyes were swollen shut and his nose was a funny shape Ma and Aunt Polly covered his whole face with mud and tied the mud on with cloths Only the end of his nose and his mouth showed

Aunt Polly steeped soive him for his fever Laura and Mary and the cousins stood around for so at him

It was dark that night when Pa and Uncle Henry came from the field All the oats were in the shock, and now the rain could come and it would not do any harm

Pa could not stay to supper; he had to get ho, at hoive so on

Pa was very tired and his hands ached so that he could not drive very well, but the horses knew the way home Ma sat beside him with Baby Carrie, and Laura and Mary sat on the board behind them Then they heard Pa tell about what Charley had done

Laura and Mary were horrified They were often naughty, theined that anyone could be as naughty as Charley had been He hadn’t worked to help save the oats He hadn’t minded his father quickly when his father spoke to him He had bothered Pa and Uncle Henry when they were hard at work

Then Pa told about the yellow jackets’ nest, and he said, “It served the little liar right”

After she was in the trundle bed that night, Laura lay and listened to the rain druht about what Pa had said