She peered in with great satisfaction, turning herself round so as to see first over one shoulder, then over the other.
"It _is_ lovely," she said at last.

"But, cuckoo, I'm just thinking--how shall I possibly be able to sit down without crushing ever so many ?" "Bless you, you needn't trouble about that," said the cuckoo; "the butterflies are quite able to take care of themselves.

You don't suppose you are the first little girl they have ever made a dress for ?" Griselda said no more, but followed the cuckoo, walking rather "gingerly," notwithstanding his assurances that the butterflies could take care of themselves.

At last the cuckoo stopped, in front of a sort of banked-up terrace, in the centre of which grew a strange-looking plant with large, smooth, spreading-out leaves, and on the two topmost leaves, their splendid wings glittering in the sunshine, sat two magnificent butterflies.

They were many times larger than any Griselda had yet seen; in fact, the cuckoo himself looked rather small beside them, and they were _so_ beautiful that Griselda felt quite over-awed.
You could not have said what colour they were, for at the faintest movement they seemed to change into new colours, each more exquisite than the last.