It isn't pleasant to see nice little girls show so much temper, Dotty.

Now I'm going to tell you something; all those ducklings were a little crazy, and it didn't make much difference what became of them." "Crazy ?" "Yes, their minds were not properly balanced.

There's one left, I believe.

I'm going to make a lunatic asylum for him, and put him in this very day." Dotty calmed herself and watched Abner as he made a pen with high stakes, and set in one corner of it a pan of water for swimming purposes.
The "speckling," as she called him, was Dotty's own; and when he was put into this insane hospital, all safe from the cat, his little mistress was in a measure consoled.
"I am sorry he is crazy," said she; "but I s'pose the hen didn't hatch him well.

Maybe he'll get his senses by and by." All this while dear little Charlie Gray was very ill.