It stood up on its hind legs lookin' twice as big as usual, and when everybody screamed and carried on so, I didn't know what I was doin'.

As soon as I realised that it was the boys' pet I wasn't afraid, but it made me mad to be startled that way.

And that's the second time it has happened." "Is he gone ?" asked Eugenia, poking her head slowly out from under the bed like a cautious turtle.
"Yes, Wash has him," answered the Little Colonel, laughing hysterically now that her temper had spent itself.

"You girls look too funny for any use.

Come down off your perch on that wardrobe, Joyce.