Mother, don't you wish you was a bird ?" "No, I don't think so, Olly; why do you ?" "Because I should like to go so _krick_.

Mother, the fly-catchers do fly so krick; I can't see them sometimes when they're flying, they go so fast.

Oh, I do wish father would let me get up a ladder to look at them." "No Olly, you'll frighten them," said Milly, putting on her wise face.
"Besides, father says you're too little, and you'd tumble down." Olly looked as if he didn't believe a word of it, as he generally did when Milly talked wisely to him; but just then he found that mother had put into his lap a whole basketful of letters to tear up, and that interested him so much that he forgot the fly-catchers.

Nurse cut out a most fashionable blue dress for Katie, and Milly was quite happy all the rest of the morning in running up the seams and hemming the bottom.

So the morning passed away.