Phonny, while Mary Erskine was mending his clothes, asked where the children were.

Mary Erskine said that they had gone out into the fields with Thomas, to make hay.

So Phonny and Malleville, after getting proper directions in respect to the way that they were to go, set off in pursuit of them.
They went out at a back-door which led to a beautiful walk under a long trellis, which was covered with honey-suckles and roses.
Malleville stopped to get a rose, and Phonny to admire two humming-birds that were playing about the honey-suckles.

He wished very much that he could catch one of them, but he could not even get near them.

From the end of the trellis's walk the children entered a garden, and at the back side of the garden they went through a narrow place between two posts into a field.