You can't understand at present," said the cuckoo.

"You can understand about obeying _your_ orders, and you see, when you don't, things go wrong." "Yes," said Griselda humbly, "they certainly do.

But, cuckoo," she continued, "I never used to get into tempers at home--_hardly_ never, at least; and I liked my lessons then, and I never was scolded about them." "What's wrong here, then ?" said the cuckoo.

"It isn't often that things go wrong in this house." "That's what Dorcas says," said Griselda.

"It must be with my being a child--my aunts and the house and everything have got out of children's ways." "About time they did," remarked the cuckoo drily.
"And so," continued Griselda, "it is really very dull.