"No, I'm not going to fall," Sue answered. "But look at my dress! It's
all red paint!"
And so it was! In addition to being wet and muddy her skirt was now
covered with big blotches of red paint--the same kind of paint that was
being put on the roof.
"How did it happen?" went on Sue, almost ready to cry again. "I didn't
step in any paint, did I?"
"Even if you did I don't see how it got on your dress," said Charlie
Star.
"There's some on me, too!" cried Bunny Brown. "There's some on my
pants!"
"And I'm daubed just like you!" cried Charlie. "We're all three
painted!"
And they were, only Sue had more of it on her dress than the boys had on
their clothes.
"It must have been on the ladder," decided Charlie. "The painter man got
some of his red stuff on the ladder and we got it on us."
"Oh, dear!" sighed Sue. "Now after my dress is dry and I brush the mud
off mother will see the red paint. Course I'd tell her, anyhow, but I
wish she wouldn't see it first!"
However, there seemed no help for it. All three of the children had red
paint on their clothes, and paint, you know, can't be brushed off.
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