`` No , she is n't . 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 XXXXX a merciless shampoo .
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