'I'll shoo him down for you while you stand underneath and catch him.' "'Shoo, shoo!' said Jeannette, catching her dress skirt with both hands and waving it back and forth rapidly.

In a minute all the girls were waving their dress skirts at me and saying 'shoo.' "'Oh, my pretty Admiral Dewey, my dear old admiral,' wailed Johnny, almost in tears.
"I didn't wait for the broom or the flagpole to help me from the picture frame.

I balanced myself steadily and then I flew out of the open window and away into the world, without saying good-bye to anybody.

I suppose they all crowded to the window to look after me as I disappeared, for the last thing I heard was Mrs.Morris' voice saying, 'Don't, Johnny; you'll fall out if you lean over so far.

Papa will get you another bird.