"Um runs away and
away, and all off!"
Sometimes she remembered she was going to heaven, and sometimes she
forgot it. She was on the way to the "Pines," and many little flowers
grew by the road-side. She began to pick a few, but the thorns on the
raspberry bushes tore her tender hands, and one of the naughty
branches caught Dinah by the frizzly hair, and carried her under. What
did Flyaway spy behind the bushes? Dotty Dimple and Jennie Vance. They
were eating wintergreen leaves; they did not see her. Flyaway kept as
still as if she were sitting for a photograph, picked up Dinah, gave
her a hug, and crept on.
She went so quietly that nobody heard her. When she was out of sight
she purred for joy. She had got ahead of the girls on the way to
heaven! She took the stick of candy out of her pocket and nibbled it
to celebrate the occasion. "A little hump-backed bumblebee" saw her do
it. He wanted some too, and followed Flyaway as if she had been a
moving honeysuckle. For half a mile or more she "gaed" and she "gaed,"
all the while nibbling the candy; but now she was growing very tired,
and did it to comfort herself.
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