5. "What a buzzing we should have, and what should we do when such huge
things flew about the room or walked on the ceiling!

6. "There would be no room for us to move, and the house would be too
small. Fancy having such a creature as this fly looks now jumping and
prancing over one's bread and jam!"

7. I was not pleased with this speech; I knew that my colour was rather
dingy, but I had always thought my shape to be light and graceful, and
this Rose had taken no notice of.

8. Neither had she so much as looked at my trunk, of which I am truly
proud. So I flew away in a pet from under the glass, and settled on the
loaf in the middle of the table, out of her reach.

9. "But for you, dear grand-father, I should never have thought such
tiny creatures worth taking any notice of. Why, they are made just as
well as big ones, or better."

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10. "Not better, dear, but quite as well. They are all the work of
God's hand, and so all must be alike good. Do you know that you owe the
pretty crimson sash that you have on to a very little creature?"

11. "Oh yes, the silkworm," said Rose.

"Yes, and the red colour was made from the dead body of an insect too.
There is a sort of blight which gives this red colour after it is dead.

12. "Merchants bring them from abroad, after they have been taken from
the plants on which they live. As they kill the coffee plants they must
be swept off, and they are made into dye."

13. Grand-father would have said much more, but just then Rose saw Tom
and Lucy walking up the lawn to the open window.

14. Behind them walked gravely Neptune the dog, with his master's stick
in his mouth, which he thought it a great honour to carry.

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_Write:_ Rose saw the fly through her glass. She felt glad that the fly
was not so big as he looked then. He was as well made as if he were
large.

Questions: 1. What did Rose look at through her glass? 2.
What did she think about the fly? 3. What did Mr. Sutton say
about great and little creatures? 4. Whom did Rose see in
the garden? 5. Who walked behind carrying his master's
stick?

12. A LONG SLEEP.

1. About this time I began to feel a chill in the air. I did not like
this, for it made me feel drowsy. So I kept in the warmth of the
drawing-room all day.

2. But I was shocked to see that many of my friends began to get quite
unfit to run or fl