If Flyaway should ever reach
that cloud-capped peak, it was not her wee, wee feet which would carry
her there. But the baby had no idea of distances. She went out of the
yard as fast as the big boots would allow. She felt as brave as a
little fly trying to walk the whole length of the Chinese Wall.
Where were Dotty Dimple and Jennie Vance? O, they were half way to
heaven by this time; she must "hurry quick."
The fact was, they were "up in the Pines," picking strawberries.
Nobody saw Flyaway but a caterpillar.
"O, my shole! there's a _catty-pillow_--what he want, you fink?"
Kitty winked and Dinah sulked, but there was no reply.
The next thing they met was a grasshopper. "O, dee, a _gas-papa_!
Where you s'pose um goin'?"
Kitty winked again and Dinah sulked.
Flyaway answered her own question. "Diny, dat worm gone see his
mamma."
Dinah did not care anything about the family feelings of the "worms;"
so she kept her red silk mouth shut; but she grew very heavy--so
heavy, indeed, that once her little mother dropped her in the sand,
but picking her up, shook her and trudged on.
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