Yet she could never catch Topsy doing them.
In a very few days Topsy had learned how to do Miss Ophelia's room perfectly, for she was very quick and clever.

But if Miss Ophelia ever left her to do it by herself there was sure to be dreadful confusion.
Instead of making the bed, she would amuse herself with pulling off the pillow-cases.

Then she would butt her woolly head among the pillows, until it was covered with feathers sticking out in all directions.

She would climb the bedpost, and hang head downwards from the top; wave the sheets and covers all over the room; dress the bolster up in Miss Ophelia's nightgown and act scenes with it, singing, whistling, and making faces at herself in the looking-glass all the time.
'Topsy,' Miss Ophelia would say, when her patience was at an end, 'what makes you behave so badly ?' 'Dunno, missis--I'spects' cause I's so wicked.' 'I don't know what I shall do with you, Topsy.' 'Laws, missis, you must whip me.

My old missis always did.