I warned her not to put her hair in curls but she would n't listen to me . I guess she wishes she had now . When people have n't natural curly hair they should n't try to make it curly . They get punished if they do . '' `` Look here , Felicity , never mind all that . Just tell us what has happened Sis . '' `` Well , this is what has happened her . That ninny of a Sara Ray brought up a bottle of mucilage instead of Judy 's curling-fluid , and Cecily put her hair up with THAT . It 's in an awful state . '' `` Good gracious ! '' exclaimed Dan . `` Look here , will she ever get it out ? '' `` Goodness knows . She 's got her head in soak now . Her hair is just matted together hard as a board . That 's what comes of vanity , '' said Felicity , than whom no vainer girl existed . Poor Cecily paid dearly enough for HER vanity . She spent a bad forenoon , made no easier by her mother 's severe rebukes . For an hour she `` soaked '' her head ; that is , she stood over a panful of warm water and kept dipping her head in with tightly shut eyes . Finally her hair softened sufficiently to be disentangled from the curl papers ; and then Aunt Janet subjected it to a merciless shampoo .
Eventually they got all the mucilage washed out of it and Cecily spent the remainder of the XXXXX sitting before the open oven door in the hot kitchen drying her ill-used tresses .
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