What Tommy did for about an hour, during which
Mr. Seagrave worked very diligently, his father did not observe; but
all of a sudden he began to cry; and when his father asked him the
reason, he did not answer, but only cried the more, until at last he
put his hands to his stomach, and roared most lustily. As he appeared
to be in very great pain, his father left off work, and led him up to
the tent, when Mrs. Seagrave came out, alarmed at his cries. Ready, who
had heard Tommy screaming for so long a while, thought that there might
be something serious, and left his work to ascertain the cause. When he
heard what had passed, he said:
"Depend upon it, the child has eaten something which has made him ill.
Tell me, Tommy, what did you eat when you were down there?"
"Berries," roared Tommy.
"I thought as much, ma'am," said Ready. "I must go and see what the
berries were." And the old man hastened down to the place where Mr.
Seagrave had been at work. In the meantime Mrs. Seagrave was much
alarmed lest the child should have poisoned himself, and Mr. Seagrave
went to search among the medicines for some castor-oil.
Ready returned just as he came back to the tent with the bottle of
castor-oil, and he told Ready that he was about to give Tommy a dose.
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