I shall have my blue welpet when mother comes." "Is your mother away ?" said Griselda.
"Oh yes, she's been away a long time; so nurse came here to take care of me at the farmhouse, you know.

Mother was ill, but she's better now, and some day she'll come too." "Do you like being at the farmhouse?
Have you anybody to play with ?" said Griselda.
Phil shook his curly head.

"I never have anybody to play with," he said.
"I'd like to play with you if you're not too big.

And do you think you could help me to find the cuckoo ?" he added insinuatingly.
"What do you know about the cuckoo ?" said Griselda.
"He called me," said Phil, "he called me lots of times; and to-day nurse was busy, so I thought I'd come.

And do you know," he added mysteriously, "I do believe the cuckoo's a fairy, and when I find him I'm going to ask him to show me the way to fairyland." "He says we must all find the way ourselves," said Griselda, quite forgetting to whom she was speaking.
"_Does_ he ?" cried Phil, in great excitement.