Suddenly she remembered it was
Charlie's candy. She held it up to her tearful eyes.
"O dee," said she, "it was big, but it keeps a-gettin' little!"
The hungry bumblebee, who was just behind her, thought this was his
last chance: so he pounced down upon Charlie's candy; and being
cross, and not knowing Flyaway from any other little girl, he stung
her on the thumb. Then how she cried, "'Orny 'ting me! 'Orny 'ting
me!" for she had been treated just so before by a hornet. "O my dee
mamma! My dee mamma!"
But her "dee" mamma could not hear her; she was in the city of
Augusta; and as for the rest of the family, they supposed Flyaway was
playing "catch" with Dotty Dimple in the barn.
CHAPTER IV.
"A RAILROAD SAVAGE."
It now occurred to little Flyaway, with a sudden pang, that she must
have come to the end of the world. "Yes, cerdily!" The world was full
of folks and houses,--this place was nothing but trees. The world had
horses and wagons in it,--this place hadn't. "O dee!"
Where was the hill gone, on the top of which stood that big house they
called heaven,--the house where Charlie lived and played in the
garden? Why, that hill had just walked off, and the house too! She
parted the bushes and peeped through.
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