[Illustration: _Pastry Cook_]
where a young lady was eating a jelly, and laughing archly at a little
boy who greedily endeavoured to force a whole cake into his mouth at
once.
"Why, you silly little fellow," said she, "what are you stretching
your mouth so wide for? Why don't you eat it properly. You might
choke yourself if you did get it all in at once. Bite a piece off,
and don't do as you did the other evening at tea, fill your mouth so
full that you would have been suffocated, had not Sally relieved you
by turning out the toast as fast as you had put it in."
"Dear mamma," said Caroline in a low voice, "what a sad thing is
greediness. I dare say that little boy would not give his sister a
morsel for all the world, and I should not enjoy the finest thing that
ever was made, unless my brothers and sisters shared it with me."
"That I will answer for, Caroline," replied her mother. "And now my
dear children take whatever you please, as it is necessary that you
should have some refreshment after your walk."