Her under lip puckered a little and she frowned--a little frown--
right in the middle of her forehead.

"Tut, tut," said her Father. "Girls and women should always be
gentle and smiling. You must never frown."

He looked quite shocked at the very idea of such a thing.

Take tried to look pleasant, and a funny thing is that when you
make yourself look pleasant, you begin to feel so, too. Take
felt pleasant almost right away.

They went into the house and hung the picture of the mother bird
in the place of the crow, beside the spray of plum. When it was
all done, this is the way the honorable recess looked.

Take looked at it for a while, and then she said, "I don't
believe I shall feel sorry about minding Bot'Chan after all,
because I love him so much."

"That's the way a little Japanese girl should feel," said her
Father. "Now, come in and let us take a look at him."

They found Bot'Chan awake. Take knelt down on the mat in front
of him, to see him better.

"Put your head down on the matting, Take," her Father said, and
Take bowed her head to the floor.