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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Walk and a Drive., by Thomas Miller
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+Title: A Walk and a Drive.
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+Author: Thomas Miller
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+        LITTLE ROSY'S TRAVELS.
+
+        SIX VOLUMES.
+
+
+        ON THE JOURNEY.
+        A WALK AND A DRIVE.
+        THE DUCKS AND PIGS.
+        THE WOUNDED BIRD.
+        A SAD ADVENTURE.
+        THE DOCTOR'S VISIT.
+
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+Little Rosy's Travels.
+
+A WALK AND A DRIVE.
+
+ILLUSTRATED.
+
+        New York:
+        SHELDON AND COMPANY.
+        1870.
+
+
+
+
+        Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868,
+        By SHELDON AND COMPANY,
+        In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the
+                Southern
+        District of New York.
+
+
+        Electrotyped at the
+        BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY,
+        No. 19 Spring Lane.
+
+
+
+
+A Walk and a Drive.
+
+
+
+
+VISIT TO THE DAIRY.
+
+
+WHEN Rosy opened her eyes the next morning the sun was shining so
+brightly that she was obliged to shut them again. But a great many
+thoughts came into her little head, and she was in a great hurry to get
+up.
+
+Nurse said it was not time yet, and that she was very sleepy; but when
+the little girl had climbed into her bed, and given her a great many
+soft kisses, and told her how much she wanted to take a walk before
+breakfast, the kind nursey first rubbed her eyes, then opened them, and
+then got out of bed.
+
+While she was dressing, Rosy began to put on her own shoes and stockings
+and some of her clothes; for she had already learnt to do a great deal
+for herself.
+
+She peeped out of window to look for the birds, but for some time she
+could not see any.
+
+Rosy thought this very strange, for she remembered how she used to hear
+the dear little birdies sing when she had been in the country in
+England; but nurse could not explain the puzzle; so Rosy settled that it
+was to be a question for her papa. Of course he would know; he always
+knew everything.
+
+When they were quite ready, nurse said,--
+
+"Now, my darling, if you like, we will go and get your milk for
+breakfast; for I know where it is to be had, and nice, new, good milk I
+hope it may be, to make my little Trotty very fat."
+
+"Is not Rosy fat now?" asked the little girl, in surprise, and feeling
+first her plump cheeks and then her round arms with her stumpy little
+fingers.
+
+"O, pretty well," said nurse laughing, "but you may be fatter yet, and I
+like fat little girls."
+
+They had not to walk far before they came to the place where the milk
+was sold. It was called a farm; and nurse took Rosy in, and said she
+should see the dairy if the good woman would let her.
+
+Rosy did not know what a dairy meant; but she supposed that it was
+something curious, and tripped merrily along, wondering what she should
+see, till they came to a room which had a floor made of red tiles, on
+which stood at least ten or twelve large open bowls full of new milk.
+
+Now Rosy happened to be very fond of milk; and as she was just then
+quite ready for her breakfast, she was very pleased to have her mug
+filled,--the mug which she had brought on purpose, as nurse told
+her,--and then take a good drink.
+
+"Ah, nurse, how good it is!" she cried; "but what is all this sticking
+to my lips? It is not white like our milk. See, there is something on
+the top of it!" and she held out her mug to show her.
+
+"Ah, that's cream, good cream. We did not get milk like this in Paris,"
+said nurse; "and I'm sure we don't in London. There's no water here, is
+there, madame?"
+
+But madame did not understand English; so nurse was obliged, by looking
+very pleased, to make her see that she thought her milk very good.
+
+"But it's very bad of the other people to put water in my milk," said
+Rosy, frowning. "I shall ask my papa to scold them when we go home; and
+I shall take a great mugful of this nice milk to show my grandmamma."
+
+"Well, now say good by prettily in French, as your papa teaches you,"
+said nurse, "and then we'll go home, and I dare say we shall find some
+more milk there."
+
+"Adieu, madame," said the little girl, and off she trotted again, as
+ready to go as she had been to come.
+
+They say "madame" to every one in France, you know, and not to rich
+ladies only.
+
+Now there are beautiful hills all round the back of Cannes, and a little
+way up one of these was the house where Rosy was going to live. She did
+so like running up and down hills! and there were two or three little
+ones between the farm and this house, which was called a villa.
+
+When she got on to the top of one, she cried out,--
+
+"Ah, there's the sea, I do declare! and there's a boat on it with a
+white sail! Shall we go in a boat some day?"
+
+"I don't know," said nurse, "you must ask your mamma; but you don't want
+to be sick, do you?"
+
+"I won't be sick," cried the little girl. "Rosy is never sick in a
+beau'ful boat like that. I'll ask my mamma," and she bustled on.
+
+"Stay, stay!" cried nurse, "you're going too far, my pet; this is the
+way; look, who stands up there?"
+
+Rosy looked up, and there was the villa with its green blinds high up
+over her head; and some one stood outside the door calling her by name.
+
+O, what a number of steps there were for those little legs to climb
+before she reached her papa!
+
+They went up by the side of a garden, which was itself like a lot of
+wide steps, and on each step there was a row of vines, not trained
+against a wall as we train our vines in England, but growing on the
+ground like bean plants.
+
+Rosy saw lots of such nice grapes that her little mouth quite watered,
+and she would have liked to have stopped to pick some; but then she knew
+that would be stealing, because they were not hers. And I hope that Rosy
+would not have stolen even if nurse had not been following her, or her
+papa watching her.
+
+She got the grapes, too, without picking them; for when she had climbed
+up to the very top, there was papa waiting for her with a beautiful
+bunch in his hand. And he said,--
+
+"Come in, Rosy; mamma wants her breakfast very badly. See, mamma, what a
+pair of roses your little girl has been getting already!"
+
+Rosy knew very well what that meant, for she rubbed her cheeks with her
+little fat hands, and then tumbled her merry little head about her
+mamma's lap to "roll the roses off," as she said.
+
+But that little head was too full of thoughts to stay there long.
+
+There was so much to tell and to talk about, and that dairy took a long
+time to describe. Then when papa asked if she had seen the dear cows
+that gave the milk, she thought that that would be a capital little
+jaunt for to-morrow, and clapped her hands with glee.
+
+"So you are going to find some new pets, Rosy," he said, "to do instead
+of Mr. Tommy and the kittens?"
+
+"Ah, papa, but there are no dickies here--I mean, hardly any," she
+answered. "We looked so for the birdies all, all the time; but only two
+came, and went away again directly."
+
+"We must go out and see the reason of that," said papa, smiling,--"you
+and I, Rosy, directly after breakfast. We must go and tell the dear
+birds that Rosy has come."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+A WALK AND A DRIVE.
+
+
+ROSY made such haste to finish her bread and milk, that she was ready to
+go out before any one else had done breakfast. But her papa was not long
+before he was ready too, and she was soon tripping along by his side.
+
+They went only a little way up the road, and then they came to a field,
+on one side of which were some high bushes. Rosy knew where to look for
+birds, and peeped very anxiously amidst the boughs till she saw
+something hopping. Then she pulled her papa's hand, and let him know
+that she wanted him to stoop down and look too.
+
+He looked, and then whispered,--
+
+"Yes, Rosy. There is a pretty little robin; let us go round the other
+side and see if we can make him come out with these crumbs which I have
+brought with me."
+
+So they went softly to the gate, and were just going in, when papa
+said,--
+
+"Stop, Rosy; look what that man has got in his hand."
+
+Then she looked, and saw a man with a very long gun and two dogs.
+
+"What is he going to do, papa?" asked the little girl, drawing back;
+"will he shoot us if we go in?"
+
+"O, no, Rosy; don't be afraid. It is the robin that he wants to shoot
+and not us. So now you see how it is that the dicky-birds don't sing
+much at Cannes. It is because they shoot so many of them."
+
+Poor little Rosy! She loved so much to watch the little birds and hear
+them sing! And when she thought of this dear robin being shot quite
+dead, and that perhaps there was a nest somewhere with little ones who
+would have no mamma, she began to cry, and to call the man "a cruel
+fellow."
+
+She was not much comforted by being told that such little birds were
+eaten there; so that if the man could shoot one, he would get some money
+for it which might buy bread for his little ones. But she was rather
+glad to hear that the little robins must be able by that time of year to
+take care of themselves, and had left the nest some time; and much more
+pleased, when, soon after, she saw the dear robin fly right away, so
+that the man with the gun was not likely to shoot that one at any rate.
+
+Then papa said, "I shouldn't wonder if mamma would like to go out this
+morning. Shall we go back and see?"
+
+[Illustration: "Rosy was very much pleased when soon after she saw the
+robin fly right away."]
+
+Rosy thought that would be very nice; and then her papa lifted up his
+little girl, and showed her all the beautiful hills that were behind
+them. There were some that had peaked tops, and some rather roundish;
+and just in one place she could see some hills a very long way off, that
+seemed to climb right up into the sky and were all white on the top. He
+told her that those hills were called mountains, because they were so
+very high,--a great deal too high for Rosy to walk up, and that the
+white stuff which she saw was snow.
+
+"We don't have snow when it is warm in England, Rosy, do we?" said
+papa, "nor yet here, but up there, you see, it is so cold that the snow
+never melts. Those are called 'the snow Alps.'"
+
+Rosy had nearly forgotten the poor birds now, because there were so many
+other things to think about. She saw some poppies a little way off, and
+then some blue flowers; and they were so pretty that she was quite
+obliged to stop a good many times to pick some for dear mamma. The wind
+was very high too, and it blew little Rosy's hat right off, so that papa
+and she had both to run after it.
+
+Mamma was ready for a walk when they got in, but she staid to put
+Rosy's flowers in water; and they looked very gay and pretty. Nurse and
+every one admired them; and Rosy said that she was not a bit tired, and
+was quite sure that she could go for another long, long walk.
+
+But papa said that though Rosy might be a little horse, her mamma was
+not, and that it was a long way to the town and to the shops where she
+wanted to go; so he would go and get a carriage for them.
+
+Now, though Rosy certainly was very tired of trains, she found a basket
+pony-carriage a very different thing, and enjoyed her ride so much that
+she was obliged to change pretty often from her mamma's lap to her
+papa's and back again, just because she was too happy to sit still.
+
+The ponies went along merrily too, as if they were nearly as happy. They
+had bells on their necks which jingled delightfully, and every now and
+then they met a carriage, or even a cart, the horses of which had bells
+too. So they had plenty of music.
+
+They went up one hill and down another, and the ponies ran so fast, and
+turned round the corners of the roads so quickly, that sometimes mamma
+was afraid that the carriage would be upset, and that they would all be
+"tipped out in a heap." Rosy thought it would be good fun if they were.
+She often rolled about herself, like a little ball, without hurting
+herself; and she thought that papa and mamma would only get a little
+dusty, and that it would be a nice little job for her to brush the dust
+off when she got home.
+
+Just then a number of boys and girls came along the road to meet them,
+and Rosy saw that all the little ones wore caps, not hats or bonnets.
+There was one baby with large black eyes, whom she would have liked to
+kiss and hug. It was so fat and pretty. But it was dressed in a way that
+she had never seen any baby dressed before, for its feet and legs were
+put into a sort of large bag, so that it could not kick like other
+children; and Rosy wondered how it could laugh so merrily.
+
+When the carriage came near this little party the man did not hold the
+reins of his horses tight as an English coachman would have done. He
+only screamed out to the children, "Gare! gare!" which Rosy's papa told
+her meant "Get out of the way."
+
+And when they were all past there came next a great wagon, piled up with
+the trunks of trees. The horses which drew this had no bells; but they
+had a funny sort of post sticking up high between their ears, with lots
+of things hanging on to it. They had also three pink tassels hanging on
+their faces, one in front and one on each side. These tassels shook as
+they went along, and looked so pretty that Rosy thought to herself that
+if ever she had a toy horse again she would ask nurse to make some
+little tassels for it just like them. Her papa had told her, too, that
+they were to keep off the flies, which teased the poor horses very often
+dreadfully. And of course Rosy would not like her horse to be teased.
+
+But the carriage went on while she was thinking this; and soon they saw
+four old women coming along the road with large baskets, full of some
+green stuff, on their heads. The little girl did not say anything as
+they went by, but she looked very particularly to see how they were
+dressed.
+
+Now I must tell you why she did this.
+
+In the first place, then, she had never seen any old women a bit like
+them before.
+
+They walked all in a row with their baskets on their heads, and with
+their hands stuck into their sides, and they talked very fast as they
+came along. On their heads they wore very, very large hats, with small
+crowns. Rosy had never seen such hats before, and she heard her mamma
+say that she had never seen them either. Under these great hats they had
+nice white caps, with colored handkerchiefs over them, which hung down
+behind. They had, besides, other colored handkerchiefs over their
+shoulders, and two of them had red gowns.
+
+Now Rosy had had a present given her in Paris. It was a piece of French
+money, worth ten English pennies; and with this money she had bought ten
+Dutch dolls, which nursey was going to dress for her. At first she
+meant them to make an English school; but now that she had seen so many
+funny people she thought she would like her dolls to be dressed like the
+people in Cannes, because then they would just show her dear grandmamma
+how very nice they looked, and how very different to English people.
+
+She was very quiet for a little while, because she was making this grand
+plan; but they soon turned out of the narrow street, and all at once she
+saw the sea again.
+
+They had come now to what was called the "port," and there were all the
+great ships which had come home lately, and were waiting to go out
+again,--one, two, three, four, five, six, all in a row, quite quiet, and
+"taking their naps," as Rosy's papa said, "after all their hard work."
+
+He lifted Rosy out first, and said that they would go and look at them,
+while mamma went into the shops.
+
+Rosy was not quite sure whether she was pleased at that, because
+sometimes her mamma bought her very nice things, such as toys, or
+sugar-plums, or cakes, when she took her out shopping. But they soon
+found plenty to look at, and some funny men with blue coats and cocked
+hats amused the little girl very much. Her papa wondered why she looked
+at them so often; but then he did not know Rosy's grand scheme, and how
+she was thinking of asking nurse to dress one doll just like them. She
+kept this little plan quite a secret till she got back to her nurse.
+
+It was half the fun to have a secret.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+ROSY'S VISIT TO THE COWS.
+
+
+THE dear, good nursey did not forget about the cows next morning, for
+when Rosy opened her little blue peepers there she was half dressed.
+
+Rosy jumped up in a minute, crying out,--
+
+"The cows! the cows! Shall we go and see them?"
+
+"If you will make great haste," said the nurse; "but it is getting
+late."
+
+Rosy never got dressed more quickly. She did not much like even to wait
+for her morning splash; and while her curls were being combed, she kept
+saying, "Won't it do, nurse?" and then rather hindering by holding up
+her little face for a kiss.
+
+As soon as she was quite ready she bustled off, and got down stairs
+first. Whom should she see there but papa himself, with his hat on?
+
+He said that he would take her to see the cows, and even carry her a
+little way if she got tired.
+
+How very kind that was! But would such a great girl as Rosy get tired?
+
+O, dear, no; at least, so she said, for Rosy did not like to be thought
+a baby now, though somehow or other it did sometimes happens that after
+a long walk her feet would ache a little bit, and then papa's shoulder
+made a very comfortable seat.
+
+She was half afraid now that nursey might be sorry not to see the cows,
+and ran back to whisper that if she liked she might dress one of the
+dollies instead. That was meant for a treat, you know; and nursey
+laughed, and said,--
+
+"Perhaps, we shall see;" and gave her another kiss.
+
+Then Rosy showed her papa where the farm was; and when they came near,
+they saw the farmer's wife standing at the door, as if she expected her
+little visitor.
+
+Rosy did not forget to say,--
+
+"Bon jour, madame," which means "Good morning" in English, you know.
+
+Papa asked in French if they could see the cows, and the good woman was
+kind enough to take them round to the water where they were drinking.
+
+There was a black one, and a black and white one, and a red one, and
+another with red spots. We cannot find room for them all in the
+picture; but you will see the one which was drinking.
+
+Rosy admired them very much, and wanted to go as near as she could that
+she might see them well; for although they were so very big and had such
+long legs, she was not a bit afraid of them. She never was afraid of
+anything when her papa was by, because he was so very strong--stronger
+than all the world she thought.
+
+"Who made the cows, Rosy?" asked her papa, when she had looked at them a
+little while.
+
+"God," said Rosy, softly; "God made everything, didn't he, papa? Why did
+he make the cows?" she asked, after thinking a minute.
+
+"To give us good milk, such as you had yesterday, Rosy, and to make you
+and other little girls and boys fat and strong. Was not that very good
+of God!"
+
+"Yes, papa," said Rosy, again.
+
+"Then will you remember that, my little one, when you say, by and by, 'I
+thank God for my nice bread and milk'?"
+
+Rosy said she would, and then she asked,--
+
+"And do the pretty cows give us coffee, too, papa?"
+
+[Illustration: "And do the pretty cows give us coffee, too, papa."]
+
+"No, no, my silly little Rosy; don't you recollect that we buy that at
+the grocer's shop? We must go some day and ask him to let you see it
+ground up to powder. The coffee comes from a long, long way off. It
+grows on a tree in a very hot country, and looks like little berries
+till they put it into a mill and turn a handle. Then the berries are
+ground up to powder, and we put some boiling water over the powder, and
+when it gets cool we drink it. Haven't you seen mamma pour it out into
+the cup and put some sugar and milk in for herself and papa?"
+
+Rosy remembered now; but she had not taken much notice before, because
+she did not like coffee at all. She liked her nice milk much better; and
+so when she went away with her papa she called out,--
+
+"Good by, dear cowies, and thank you very much for my nice milk."
+
+Rosy wanted to walk round the other side where there was a very gentle,
+kind-looking cow, that was not in the water, because she thought that
+she would like to stroke her; but her papa told her to look at those two
+great horns. And he said that cows did not like little girls to take
+liberties with them unless they knew them, and that this cow did not
+know her, and might think her very saucy, and poke out her horns to
+teach her to keep a proper distance. If she did, he said he thought Rosy
+would not like that poke, for it might hurt her, so he advised her to
+keep quite out of the good cow's way.
+
+Then she stood at a little distance to watch her drinking, and Rosy's
+papa said,--
+
+"See how she enjoys it! Cows like to come here sometimes, like little
+girls; but French cows don't get out of their houses so often as English
+ones."
+
+"Don't they, papa?" said Rosy. "Then I should think they must often wish
+to go to England."
+
+Papa laughed, and said,--
+
+"Perhaps they would wish it if they knew how their English cousins enjoy
+themselves; but I think they look pretty happy; don't you, Rosy?"
+
+Rosy said,--
+
+"Yes, papa; but how funnily the cow drinks! She puts her head into the
+water."
+
+"And you think that if she were a polite cow she would not think of
+doing such a vulgar thing, but would wait till they gave her a glass;
+eh, Rosy?"
+
+"She hasn't got any hands, papa," cried Rosy, "so she couldn't, I
+'spose."
+
+"No," said papa; "so I think that we must excuse and forgive the poor
+thing, until Rosy can teach her a better plan."
+
+And Rosy trotted home by his side, thinking how much she should like to
+try drinking after the cow's fashion.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+ROSY'S VISIT TO THE HENS.
+
+
+ROSY was very hungry when she got home to breakfast, for the fresh
+morning air had given her an appetite.
+
+Her mamma took off her hat and her little jacket, and said,--
+
+"So, Rosy, you have brought me two more roses."
+
+"But my roses don't smell, mamma," said Rosy, laughing and patting her
+own fat cheeks, as she always did when mamma said that. Then she made
+haste to scramble up on to her little chair, and pull her nice basin of
+bread and milk close to her. She looked at her papa after she had said
+her little grace, and said,--
+
+"I didn't forget, papa."
+
+Then she began to eat away as if she liked it very much; and when she
+had eaten a little, her mamma said,--
+
+"Look here, Rosy."
+
+And Rosy turned round and saw a whole spoonful of egg waiting for her to
+eat it. Mamma was holding it for her; and it looked so yellow and so
+delicious!
+
+Rosy opened her mouth, but she did not take it all in at once. It was
+too good for that, and she thought it better to make it last a little.
+
+But some of the yellow would stick on Rosy's lips; so mamma wiped it
+off, and then Rosy put her arms round her neck and kissed her, and
+said,--
+
+"So nice, dear mamma."
+
+Then mamma said,--
+
+"At the end of the garden, Rosy, there lives the good hen that gave us
+this nice egg, and a great many other hens, and very fine cocks
+too,--the cocks that you heard crowing this morning. Shall we go and see
+them after breakfast?"
+
+"O, yes, yes, yes!" cried Rosy, clapping her hands, "that will be fun.
+I've almost done mine;" and the little girl made great haste to finish
+her bread and milk; but mamma said,--
+
+"Ah, but not quite directly. I've not done my breakfast. If you have
+done yours, you had better go and see what nurse is doing, and ask her
+to get ready to come and hear papa read about Daniel in the lions' den."
+
+Rosy did not mind waiting for that, for she was never tired of hearing
+that story. I dare say that some of her young friends know it too.
+
+Her mamma got ready soon after, and they both went round to a part of
+the garden which Rosy had not seen before.
+
+There they saw that one piece was railed off from all the rest, and that
+a hen-house was inside it.
+
+Rosy's mamma opened a gate in the railing, and took her little girl into
+the enclosure amongst all the cocks and hens.
+
+The cocks did not seem much to like this, and they both made a great
+crowing, and then marched off into the farthest corner, with a lot of
+hens after them.
+
+Rosy said,--
+
+"O, mamma, show them the nice seed, and then they won't go away!"
+
+But her mamma answered,--
+
+"Not yet, Rosy; let us go first and look at these good ladies that are
+walking about inside their house. We can have a good look at them before
+they get away. See, they can't get out if we stand at the door."
+
+"Ah, look at these beauties, all over speckly feathers," cried Rosy, as
+she ran forward to catch one.
+
+She put out her little arms to seize her; but the hen seemed to think
+this a great liberty from so small a child, and instead of running away,
+she turned and opened her beak in a very angry manner.
+
+"Take care, Rosy," said her mamma, as the little girl drew back half
+frightened. "This hen seems rather a fierce lady. I will give her some
+seed to persuade her to be quiet. Perhaps she has got something there
+that she does not choose us to see. I wonder what it can be."
+
+Rosy took one more peep, and then called out,--
+
+"O, mamma, mamma, some little chickens, I do declare! If you stoop down
+you can see them running about behind her,--such dear, pretty, soft
+little creatures! Do get me one to play with."
+
+"Little chickens!" said mamma; "why, they must have come out of their
+shells very late in the year if they are little ones still, and I am
+afraid their mother won't let me touch them."
+
+"Do chickens come out of shells?" said Rosy, making very large eyes, and
+looking quite puzzled.
+
+"Yes, Rosy, out of just such shells as our eggs had this morning; and if
+in the summer we had given this good hen five or six of her own eggs in
+this little house of hers, she would have sat upon them, and spread her
+wings over them to keep them warm; and there she would have staid so
+patiently all day long, and day after day, until the dear little
+chickens were ready to come too."
+
+"And wouldn't the hen get tired?" said Rosy. "I shouldn't like to stay
+still so long."
+
+"No, I don't think you would," said her mamma, chucking her little girl
+under the chin; "but then, you see, you are like the little chickens,
+and not like the mamma hen. I think you will find that she has not got
+tired even yet, for if you peep down again you will see that she is
+keeping two of the little chickens warm under her even now. Little
+chickens are like little babies, and they very soon get cold, so they
+like keeping very close to their mammas."
+
+"Are the little chickens naughty sometimes?" asked Rosy.
+
+[Illustration: "If you stoop down you will see that she is keeping two
+of the little chickens warm under her."]
+
+"Well, I don't know, Rosy; but I know that I have often thought it very
+pretty to see how they will all run to their mother when the great hen
+clucks for them."
+
+"O, mamma, I should _so_ like to hear her cluck," cried Rosy, clapping
+her hands.
+
+"Well, Rosy, you go a little way off, and keep quite quiet; and then I
+will see if I can tempt the good lady out of her nest with some of this
+nice seed."
+
+So Rosy ran away, and her mamma stepped back a few paces and threw down
+some of the seed. The hen saw it directly, and looked for an instant as
+if she would like some very much; and she did not wait long, but soon
+stepped out of her house, and began picking up the seed.
+
+Just at that moment a cat came creeping along the outside of the paling,
+and watching to see if she could pounce on one of the little chickens.
+The hen saw the cat, and began to stretch out her neck very fiercely, as
+if she meant to fly at its eyes, and then began to cluck for her little
+ones, which all came running to her as fast as their legs would carry
+them.
+
+Rosy's little eyes sparkled with pleasure, and she went up and put her
+hand into her mamma's, and said softly,--
+
+"Wasn't it nice?"
+
+"Yes, Rosy," said her mamma, "and I hope that my little chicken will
+always run to my side as quickly as these did to their mother. You see
+she knew that they were in danger when they didn't themselves; and so do
+I sometimes when my Rosy thinks she is quite safe."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
+
+Page 7, "the" changed to "she" (so that she)
+
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