"What a messy place it must be! Why, even _my_ unfinished work makes quite a heap.

I don't like that opinion at all, cuckoo.

Tell me another." "I _have_ heard," said the cuckoo, "that among the places there you would find the country of the little black dogs.

You know what sort of creatures those are ?" "Yes, I suppose so," said Griselda, rather reluctantly.
"There are a good many of them in this world, as of course you know," continued the cuckoo.

"But up there, they are much worse than here.