I put them down on a bed, and while my back was turned for a few minutes they cleared a whole row of young cabbages that Miss Morrison had just planted.

I got into fearful trouble, and had to pack up my _proteges_ and take them back to their coop in disgrace.

I'd never dreamed they would devour green stuff! We have to learn to keep strict accounts of the poultry; we put down the number of eggs daily, and the weekly food bill, and the chickens sold, and make a kind of register, with profit and loss.

Miss Carson runs everything on a most business-like basis." Miss Heald showed Winona the store-room, where meal and grain were kept, the big pans in which food was mixed, the boxes for packing eggs, and the little medicine cupboard containing remedies for sick fowls.

All was beautifully orderly and well arranged, and a card of rules for the help of the students hung on the walls.
From the poultry department they passed to the Dairy Section.