Ivy ?" "Amazing! it _is_ ivy." "The birds," she resumed.

"I shan't be satisfied till I have told you what the birds are.

Haven't I got silver birds like them--only much larger--for holding pepper, and mustard, and sugar, and so on.

Owls!" she exclaimed, with a cry of triumph.

"Little owls, sitting in ivy-nests.
What a delightful pattern! I never heard of anything like it before." "Keep the vase!" he said.