e bank, till I heard my mother near
me.

9. "She was saying, 'God bless you, darling,' and then I found myself
lying in bed."

"Ah," said her brother Tom, "Neptune, our dog, had a famous supper that
night."

10. "Why?" asked a little boy, from the other end of the table.

"Oh, did you not know that it was Neptune who pulled my sister out of
the water?" said Tom.

11. "He saw her go in, and without being told, he got her out. She
would have been drowned without him. She had been told not to go near
the pond, but she ran down to it, without leave, when no one was
looking."

12. The other little girl here grew very red. "You need not have said
that, Tom," said she. But Tom was a bit of a tease. He only laughed and
said that his sister was always doing what she was told not.

* * * * *

_Write:_ Rose took the fly out of her glass. She put him on a leaf to
get dry. Tom told them about his big dog. It saved the life of Lucy.

Questions: 1. What did Rose do for the fly in her glass? 2.
What did the dog do for Lucy? 3. What did Tom say that his
dog could do? 4. What else would he bring out from the
bottom? 5. What did Neptune have on the night when he saved
Lucy's life?

9. GRANNY'S CAP ON FIRE.

1. I did not feel much desire to taste any food next morning. The long
swim on the day before had taken away my wish for eating and drinking.

2. I nearly flew down to the flower which Rose had put in water, but I
changed my mind. On the whole I prefer the smell of jam to that of
roses.

3. I felt that a little walk would do me good, so I went round the tray
once or twice, and then I tried to do the same thing on the tea-urn,
but it was too hot for my feet.

4. I left that quickly enough, and after running across the toast on
Mr. Sutton's plate, and crawling up his paper, only to be driven away,
I went to the window.

5. Here I was so lucky as to meet a few of my friends, and we had a
little dance in the sunshine, which quite brought back my health and
spirits.

6. The day thus passed by, and it was very warm indeed later on. After
tea Mr. and Mrs. Sutton were seated in the drawing-room, one on each
side of a little table, with a candle between them.

7. The old lady was knitting, and her husband was reading aloud the
paper to her. I think he was reading to amuse himself more than his
wife.

8. I could feel, as I sat on her cap, that her head was noddin