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_ THE Watson family attended school faithfully all winter . Pearl took no excuses from the boys . When Tommy came home bitterly denouncing Miss Morrison , his teacher , because she had applied the external motive to him to get him to take a working interest in the `` Duke -- Daisy -- Kitty '' lesson , Pearl declared that he should be glad that the teacher took such a deep interest in him . When Bugsey was taken sick one morning after breakfast and could not go to school , but revived in spirits just before dinner-time , only to be `` took bad '' again at one o'clock , Pearl promulgated a rule , and in this Aunt Kate rendered valuable assistance , that no one would be excused from school on account of sickness unless they could show a coated tongue , and would take a tablespoonful of castor oil and go to bed with a mustard plaster -LRB- this was Aunt Kate 's suggestion -RRB- , missing all meals . There was comparatively little sickness among the Watsons after that . Aunt Kate was a great help in keeping the household clothes in order . She insisted on the children hanging up their own garments , taking care of their own garters , and also she saw to it that each one ate up every scrap of food on his or her plate , or else had it set away for the next meal .