t thing they met was a grasshopper. "O, dee, a _gas-papa_!
Where you s'pose um goin'?"

Kitty winked again and Dinah sulked.

Flyaway answered her own question. "Diny, dat worm gone see his
mamma."

Dinah did not care anything about the family feelings of the "worms;"
so she kept her red silk mouth shut; but she grew very heavy--so
heavy, indeed, that once her little mother dropped her in the sand,
but picking her up, shook her and trudged on. Presently she dropped
something else, and this time it was the kitty. Flyaway turned about
in dismay.

"Shtop," cried she, scowling through her "spetty-curls," as she saw
three white paws and one blue one go tripping over the road. "Shtop!"
But the paws kept on.

"O, Diny," said Flyaway, as pussy's tail disappeared round a
corner,--"O, Diny, her don't want to go to heaven!"

Then Flyaway sat down in the sand, and pulled off one of the big
boots.

"Um won't walk," said she; but, before she had time to pull off the
second one, a dog came along and frightened her so she tried to run,
though she only hopped on one foot, and dragged the other. She did not
know what the matter was till she fell down and the boot came off of
itself, after which she could walk very well. What cared she that both
"Hollis's" new boots were left in the road, ready to be crushed by
wagon wheels?

She kept on and kept on; but where was that blue hill going to? It
moved faster than she did.

"Makes me povokin'," said she, giving Dinah a shake. "Um runs away and
away, and all off!"

Sometimes she remembered she was going to heaven, and sometimes she
forgot it. She was on the way to the "Pines," and many little flowers
grew by the road-side. She began to pick a few, but the thorns on the
raspberry bushes tore her tender hands, and one of the naughty
branches caught Dinah by the frizzly hair, and carried her under. What
did Flyaway spy behind the bushes? Dotty Dimple and Jennie Vance. They
were eating wintergreen leaves; they did not see her. Flyaway kept as
still as if she were sitting for a photograph, picked up Dinah, gave
her a hug, and crept on.

She went so quietly that nobody heard her. When she was out of sight
she purred for joy. She had got ahead of the girls on the way to
heaven! She took the stick of candy out of her pocket and nibbled it
to celebrate the occasion. "A little hump-backed bumblebee" saw her do
it. He wanted some too, and followed Flyaway as if she had been a
moving honey