king
through a telescope.

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

And then Aunt Dosy and Aunt Posy began
to cry and say, "Oh, dear, what shall we
do!"

They cried so hard that their caps fell
off, and then they said: "We will send
for Dr. Funnyman."

When Dr. Funnyman came he looked at
Little White Barbara through an
eye-glass and a magnifying glass and an
opera-glass and a telescope, and then he
said to Aunt Dosy and Aunt Posy: "You
must go to London and buy her some
Laughing Medicine. I will send her
something to do her good till you come
back."

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

So Aunt Dosy and Aunt Posy went to
London to buy the Laughing Medicine. And
the Doctor sent Barbara--what do you
think?--not a bottle of medicine, but

His naughty little boy Tommy to play
with her.

Tommy looked very funny. He had a frog
in one pocket and a guinea-pig in the
other, and directly Barbara saw him

[Illustration]

She began to laugh.

And she laughed and laughed, and all the
time

[_opposite_]

[Illustration: HER FACE
GOT FATTER
AND FATTER
AND FATTER
AND FATTER!]

And then Tommy showed her how to climb
trees, but

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

She fell down, and then she began to
laugh so much that

This time she got so fat, all the
buttons came off the back of her frock.

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

Then they ran races round the garden
till Barbara's cheeks got quite red, and

Tommy showed her how to play leap-frog,
and she was so hungry at tea-time that

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

She ate twenty-two pieces of
bread-and-butter and seventeen pieces of
bread-and-jam, and drank ten cups of
milk, and

When Aunt Dosy and Aunt Posy came back
from London,--where they could not find
any Laughing Medicine in any of the
shops,--

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

They found Little White Barbara quite
rosy and fat, and they _were_ so happy.

And she was never called Little White
Barbara any more.

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