It's such a long time since I have seen you, and I have nobody to play with." But there was no answer.

Griselda held her breath to listen, but there was nothing to be heard.
"Unkind cuckoo!" she exclaimed.

"He is tricking me, I do believe; and to-day too, just when I was so dull and lonely." The tears came into her eyes, and she was beginning to think herself very badly used, when suddenly a rustling in the bushes beside her made her turn round, more than half expecting to see the cuckoo himself.

But it was not he.

The rustling went on for a minute or two without anything making its appearance, for the bushes were pretty thick just there, and any one scrambling up from the pinewood below would have had rather hard work to get through, and indeed for a very big person such a feat would have been altogether impossible.
It was not a very big person, however, who was causing all the rustling, and crunching of branches, and general commotion, which now absorbed Griselda's attention.