You needn't be afraid I'll go back to bed," bleated Addie, afraid her friend might proceed to extremities.
"Hadn't you better haul up Alice next ?" "I left Chrissie doing that.

She's going round the tents with a wet sponge.

Look! Isn't that worth getting up to see ?" The grey of the sky had flushed into carnation pink, and up from behind the wall of the mountains rose the great ball of the sun, red at first through a veil of mist, but shining out golden as he cleared the cloud-bank.

Everything was waking up.

A peewit called by the water's edge, a cock crew from the farm-yard, and a dog barked lustily.
"Our thief of the night complaining of an attack of indigestion, I hope," said Ulyth, joining Addie and Gertie at the lake-side.