She thought she did understand; at any rate she was catching every word, and stowing it away in her little bit of a brain for safe keeping.

Heaven was on Mount Blue.

She had learned so much.
"But I knowed it by-fore," said she to herself, with a proud toss of the silky plume on the crown of her head.
"Shall we take her with us ?" asked Jennie Vance.
Flyaway listened eagerly; she thought they were still talking of heaven, when in truth Jennie only meant a concert which was to be given that afternoon at the vestry.
"Take _that_ little snip of a child!" replied Dotty; "O, no; she isn't big enough; 'twouldn't be any use to pay money for _her!_" With which very cutting remark Dotty swept out of the room, in her queenly way, followed by Jennie.

Flyaway threw herself across a pillow, and moaned,-- "O, dee, dee!" Her little heart was ready to bleed; and this wasn't the first time, either.

Those great big girls were always running away from her, and calling her "goosies" and "snips;" and now they meant to climb to heaven, where Charlie was, and leave her behind.
"But I won't stay down here in this place; I'll go to heaven too, now, _cerdily_!" She sprang from the pillow and stood on one foot, like a strong-minded little robin that will not be trifled with by a worm.
"I'll go too, now, cerdily." Having made up her mind, she hurried as fast as she could, and tucked a stick of candy in her pocket, also the bottle of soap suds, and two thirds of a "curly cookie" shaped like a leaf.