I know we can, Miss Celia is so kind," began Betty, who cared for these things more than for screaming peacocks and comical donkeys.
"Not unless you are invited," answered their mother, locking the front door behind her.

"You'd better begin to pick up your duds right away, for she won't want them cluttering round her front yard.

If you are not too tired, Ben, you might rake round a little while I shut the blinds.

I want things to look nice and tidy." Two little groans went up from two afflicted little girls as they looked about them at the shady bower, the dear porch, and the winding walks where they loved to run "till their hair whistled in the wind," as the fairy-books say.
"Whatever shall we do! Our attic is so hot and the shed so small, and the yard always full of hens or clothes.

We shall have to pack all our things away, and never play any more," said Bab, tragically.
"May be Ben could build us a little house in the orchard," proposed Betty, who firmly believed that Ben could do any thing.
"He won't have any time.