But still she only got paler and paler,

And thinner and thinner.

Until at last she almost faded away, and you could only see her by looking through a telescope.

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.”

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

She began to laugh.

And she laughed and laughed, and all the time

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