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 the jug was full, the rest ran all over the cellar floor, till the cask was quite empty.

Kate saw what had happened as soon as she got to the top of the cellar stairs. ‘Humph!’ she cried, ‘what am I to do now, so that Fred shan’t discover it?’

She thought a while, and at last she remembered a sack of fine meal they had left over from the last fair. She would

fetch it down and strew it over the beer. ‘To be sure,’ she said, ‘those who save at the right time have something when they need it.’

So she went up to the loft and brought the sack down, but, unfortunately, she threw it right on to the jug full of beer. It was overturned, and away went Fred’s drink, flooding the cellar with the rest.

‘Oh, that won’t matter!’ said Kate. ‘When part is gone,