`` But I found another can nearly full , away back on the top shelf , ma , -- the one with the yellow label . I guess you forgot it was there . '' Aunt Janet stared at her pretty daughter blankly . Then amazement gave place to horror . `` Felicity King ! '' she exclaimed . `` You do n't mean to tell me that you raised those rusks with the stuff that was in that old yellow can ? '' `` Yes , I did , '' faltered Felicity , beginning to look scared . `` Why , ma , what was the matter with it ? '' `` Matter ! That stuff was TOOTH-POWDER , that 's what it was . Your Cousin Myra broke the bottle her tooth-powder was in when she was here last winter and I gave her that old can to keep it in . She forgot to take it when she went away and I put it on that top shelf . I declare you must all have been bewitched yesterday . '' Poor , poor Felicity ! If she had not always been so horribly vain over her cooking and so scornfully contemptuous of other people 's aspirations and mistakes along that line , I could have found it in my heart to pity her . The Story Girl would have been more than human if she had not betrayed a little triumphant amusement , but Peter stood up for his lady manfully . `` The rusks were splendid , anyhow , so what difference does it make what they were raised with ? '' Dan , however , began to taunt Felicity with her tooth-powder rusks , and kept it up for the rest of his natural life . `` Do n't forget to send the Governor 's wife the recipe for them , '' he said .
Felicity , with eyes tearful and cheeks crimson from mortification , rushed from the room , but never , never did the XXXXX 's wife get the recipe for those rusks .
Dan Governor Janet King Myra Peter label recipe rusks tooth-powder