She complains of headache , and she has no appetite , and she is a dreadful colour . I 'll have to see a doctor about her if she does n't get better soon . '' `` Give her a good dose of Mexican Tea and try that first , '' said Aunt Janet . `` I 've saved many a doctor 's bill in my family by using Mexican Tea . '' The Mexican Tea was duly administered , but produced no improvement in the condition of the Story Girl , who , however , went on dreaming after a fashion which soon made her dream book a veritable curiosity of literature . `` If we ca n't soon find out what makes Peter and the Story Girl dream like that , the rest of us might as well give up trying to write dream books , '' said Felix discontentedly . Finally , we did find out . Felicity wormed the secret out of Peter by the employment of Delilah wiles , such as have been the undoing of many a miserable male creature since Samson 's day . She first threatened that she would never speak to him again if he did n't tell her ; and then she promised him that , if he did , she would let him walk beside her to and from Sunday School all the rest of the summer , and carry her books for her . Peter was not proof against this double attack . He yielded and told the secret . I expected the Story Girl would overwhelm him with scorn and indignation . But she took it very coolly . `` I knew Felicity would get it out of him sometime , '' she said . `` I think he has done well to hold out this long . '' Peter and the Story Girl , so it appeared , had wooed wild dreams to their pillows by the simple device of eating rich , indigestible things before they went to bed . Aunt Olivia knew nothing about it , of course . She permitted them only a plain , wholesome lunch at bed-time . But during the day the Story Girl would smuggle upstairs various tidbits from the pantry , putting half in Peter 's room and half in her own ; and the result was these visions which had been our despair . `` Last night I ate a piece of mince pie , '' she said , `` and a lot of pickles , and two grape jelly tarts .
But I guess I overdid it , because I got real sick and could n't sleep at all , so XXXXX course I did n't have any dreams .
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