Little boy, little boy, be careful or you'll let the bird out,' she called hastily.
"But the warning was too late.

While the girls had been talking the small boy who was with them had been entertaining himself by slightly opening my cage door and letting it spring back to its fastening.
Suddenly he was seized with fright at discovering that it had stuck while half-way back, and refused to come together.
"Oh, dear!' he called.

'He's out.' "'Mercy on us! Oh, dear!' screamed the girls as I made a dash through the opening, and flew to the top of a picture frame.

'Johnny, Johnny, your redbird's out,' they called.
"All was confusion in an instant.

Boys and girls ran hither and thither, tumbling over each other, and over the chairs and stools, and all talking and screaming at once.
"'Bring a broom or a flagpole, Johnny,' called Philip.