Good Mr.
Lee was preaching from the text, "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy," and people could not imagine who was naughty enough to make such a noise outside--thump, thump, thump.
"Who's that a-talkin' ?" thought Flyaway, startled by Mr.Lee's voice.
"O, ho! that's the _prayer-man_ a-talkin'.

He makes me kind o' 'fraid!" But just at that minute she had reached the top of the stairs, and was standing in the doorway.
"O, my shole! so _many_ folks!" She trembled, and was about to run away with her newspaper and cane; but her eyes, in roving wildly about, fell upon grandpa Parlin and all the rest of them, in a pew very near the pulpit.

Then she thought it must be all right, and, taking courage, she marched slowly up the aisle, swinging the cane right and left.
Everybody looked up in surprise as the droll little figure crept by.
Grandpa frowned through his spectacles, and aunt Louise shook her head; but Horace hid his face in a hymn-book and Dotty Dimple actually smiled.
"They didn't know _I_ was a-comin'," thought Flyaway, "but I camed!" And with that she fluttered into the pew.
"Naughty, naughty girl," said aunt Louise, in an awful whisper.
She longed to take up the morsel of naughtiness, called Katie, in her thumb and finger, shake it, and carry it out.

But there was a twinkle in the little one's eye that might mean mischief; she did not dare touch her.
"O, what a child!" said aunt Louise, taking off the big hat and setting Flyaway down on the seat as hard as she could.
Flyaway looked up, through her veil of flossy hair, at her pretty auntie with the roses round her face.
"Nobody didn't take 'are o' me to my house," said she, in a loud whisper, "and _that's_ what is it!" "Hush!" said aunt Louise, giving Flyaway another shake, which frightened her so that she dropped her head on her brother's shoulder, and sat perfectly still for half a minute.
Aunt Louise was sadly mortified, and so were Susy and Prudy.

They dared not look up, for they thought everybody was gazing straight at the Parlin pew, and laughing at their crazy little relative.