looking grave, he said, "You were in great danger though,
my dear. I read only a day or two ago, of an old lady who had been
burnt to death from setting her cap on fire."

8. I had been in great danger too, though no one seemed to think of
that. What between the flames, and the knock that Mr. Sutton aimed at
me, I might have been killed.

9. Thomas was now heard coming up the gravel walk. He had been sent to
fetch Rose home. She was full of news to tell, about all the things she
had seen and heard that day.

10. "It is a great mercy, my dear, that you have a bit of your granny
left," said Mr. Sutton. "If it had not been for a fly, which tickled
the top of my head, your granny's cap would have been on fire."

11. "Well, well, Mr. Sutton," said the old lady, who, somehow or other,
did not seem to like hearing about the cap being on fire.

12. "You see here I am, without even being singed. And I was not half
so sound asleep as you were, my dear. Depend upon it I am too old and
too wise to let my cap catch fire."

13. Mr. Sutton did not say any more about the cap, since it seemed to
vex his wife.

"Ah," said Rose, "if I had been at home you would not both have fallen
asleep."

14. "That is very likely," said granny, smiling. "Well, and how did
you enjoy yourself?" Rose said that she had been very happy.

15. She had seen Neptune dive, and she had been drenched by the shaking
which the big doggie gave himself when he came out of the water.

* * * * *

_Write:_ The fly pitched on the head of the old man. He gave a stamp
with his foot to wake him up. The old man put out the fire.

Questions: 1. Where did the fly pitch on leaving the cap? 2.
What did he do to the old man's head? 3. What did Mr. Sutton
do when he woke up? 4. What did he say to his wife? 5. Who
came home with Thomas? 6. What sort of day had Rose spent?

11. A GLASS TO MAKE THINGS BIG.

1. "What shall I look at next?" said Rose, who had a glass thing in her
hand, next day. "Oh, this fly!"

2. The lunch was on the table, and I was just making a hearty meal on a
pat of butter. I knew that Rose would not hurt me. So I stood quite
still.

3. "How very strange!" said the little girl. "He looks as big as a
horse. His wings are like shining lace, and he has hairy brushes on his
feet.

4. "Now he is cleaning his head with one of them. I am glad that flies
are not really so big as he seems now.