made. "And my mouth was just watering for baked potatoes,"
wailed Hinpoha.

"And mine for baked beans," echoed Sahwah.

"You shouldn't eat potatoes if you want to get thin," said
Migwan.

"Shouldn't I, Nyoda?" asked Hinpoha, appealing to her guardian.

Nyoda pursed up her lips and recited with a judicial air:

"If you would slimmer grow, my daughter,
Eat no starches, drink no water."

Sahwah then took up the tale:

"Look not on the candy sweet,
Fall not for the fat of meat."

Thus it went round the circle, each girl pointing her finger at
Hinpoha and reciting a couplet:

"If your fat you'd wear away,
Exercise ten hours a day,"

"If you would grow thin and graceful,
Eat of lemons this whole caseful."

"If you think that you're too large,