She looked so large beside them.
One little bird became ill while Carl was away, and Miss Laura had to give it a great deal of attention.

She gave it plenty of hemp seed to make it fat, and very often the yolk of a hard boiled egg, and kept a nail in its drinking water, and gave it a few drops of alcohol in its bath every morning to keep it from taking cold.

The moment the bird finished taking its bath, Miss Laura took the dish from the cage, for the alcohol made the water poisonous.

Then vermin came on it; and she had to write to Carl to ask him what do.

He told her to hang a muslin bag full of sulphur over the swing, so that the bird would dust it down on her feathers.