Even in summer time the air of the city is overheated and close, and the early mornings cheerless and uncomfortable.

Then I think it is best to stay in bed as long as you can--if you have nothing else to do.

But here, out in the open, it seems a shame not to be up with the birds to breathe the scent of the fields and watch the sun send his heralds ahead of him to proclaim his coming and then climb from the bottomless pit into the sky and take possession of it." "Why, Myrtle!" exclaimed Patsy, wonderingly; "what a poetic notion.
How did it get into your head, little one ?" Myrtle's sweet face rivaled the sunrise for a moment.

She made no reply but only smiled pathetically.
Uncle John's knock upon the door found them ready for breakfast, which old Dan'l had skilfully prepared in the tiny kitchen and now placed upon a round table set out upon the porch.

By the time they had finished the simple meal Wampus had had his coffee and prepared the automobile for the day's journey.