"If you are not careful, you will call him Signor Pimentero to his face, some day." "What did you tell me _that_ for ?" asked the little rogue.

"It will just make me do it.

Now I am going to pester Madame's parrot." She caught up her large straw hat, with flying ribbons, and ran to the house of their next neighbor, Madame Guirlande.

She was a French lady, who had given the girls lessons in embroidery, the manufacture of artificial flowers, and other fancy-work.

Before long, Floracita returned through the garden, skipping over a jumping-rope.