nodded my head and washed my face with my feet.

9. "And so it is your birthday on Monday, Rose," went on her granny.
"And I suppose it is time to be thinking about the party and the fun we
are to have?"

10. Rose looked up, beaming with delight at these words. Though she had
not been born as a grub in a sink, I thought that she looked pretty
too.

11. "We must get Miss Bush to write the letters for us, Rose, and ask
the little girls, and boys to come and spend the day with you. Run now
and see if she will be so good as to do it now."

"Oh, very well," said Rose. And she went out with a skip.

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_Write:_ A house-fly is born in the sink. The egg from which it comes
is laid in dirt and rubbish. The grub which creeps out eats up the
dirty stuff.

Questions: 1. Where does the house-fly lay its eggs? 2. What
are the young flies like at first? 3. What do they do as
soon as they are born? 4. What do they eat? 6. If we do not
wish to have many flies, what must we do? 6. What treat was
Rose going to have?

8. SAVED AGAIN.

1. I heard a little girl say, "Oh, Rose, there is a fly in your glass
of wine."

"Poor thing!" said the little girl next her, "take it out!"

"No, no!" said her brother; "let it alone. Let us see how he swims."

2. All this time I felt very bad. I was drowning, yet this boy could
look on and talk like that.

3. Something seemed to take away all my breath and strength. I heard
the boy say, "If I fell into a pond I could not swim so well."

4. "Why, no," said Rose, "the fly has not a coat and trousers, as you
have. But I do not think it is fun to see him drowning, so I will take
him out." And she pushed the handle of a spoon with care under me.

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5. I could hardly crawl when I got on to the table-cloth. She saw it
and placed me on a green laurel leaf outside. I sat there half dead,
and yet I heard what they were all saying inside the summer-house.

6. "Lucy," said Rose to the little girl, "you would have been glad if
you could have been lifted out like that poor fly, when you fell into
the pond at home, would you not?

7. "You went to the bottom before any person came to help you. Were you
in a great fright? How did you feel?"

8. "Why," said Lucy, "I was in a great fright when I first fell in, but
after that I think that I must have been asleep, for I forgot it all. I
knew nothing after my tumble down th