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 the bank, till I heard my mother near
me.
9. "She was saying, 'God bless you, darling,' and then I found myself
lying in bed."
"Ah," said her brother Tom, "Neptune, our dog, had a famous supper that
night."