1. I did not feel much desire to taste any food next morning. The long
swim on the day before had taken away my wish for eating and drinking.
2. I nearly flew down to the flower which Rose had put in water, but I
changed my mind. On the whole I prefer the smell of jam to that of
roses.
3. I felt that a little walk would do me good, so I went round the tray
once or twice, and then I tried to do the same thing on the tea-urn,
but it was too hot for my feet.
4. I left that quickly enough, and after running across the toast on
Mr. Sutton's plate, and crawling up his paper, only to be driven away,
I went to the window.
5. Here I was so lucky as to meet a few of my friends, and we had a
little dance in the sunshine, which quite brought back my health and
spirits.
6. The day thus passed by, and it was very warm indeed later on. After
tea Mr. and Mrs. Sutton were seated in the drawing-room, one on each
side of a little table, with a candle between them.
7. The old lady was knitting, and her husband was reading aloud the
paper to her. I think he was reading to amuse himself more than his
wife.
8. I could feel, as I sat on her cap, that her head was nodding now and
then, as if she were dozing. Mr. Sutton at last saw this. And laying
down the paper he said, two or three times, "You are sleepy, my dear."
9. Each time that he said this, granny woke up, sat very upright, and
said, "Oh no, not at all, my love." But she went off again to sleep as
soon as the reading began.
10. At length she was in so sound a nap that she did not notice when
Mr. Sutton put down the paper, after reading a long, dull account of
something or other.
11. He took off his glasses, laid them on the folded paper, and saying
something to himself about resting his eyes, fell fast asleep too.
12. Granny's head now nodded lower and lower. First she gave a nod, and
then her husband gave a bow, just as if they were being most polite to
each other in their sleep.
13. Her cap was very near the wax candle once or twice, and there was a
smell of burning. She now began to nod sideways, and each time that she
did so there was a great smoke and a frizzling noise.
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_Write:_ Rose went to spend the day with Lucy. The fly sat on the cap
of the old lady. She fell asleep and the cap caught on fire.
Questions: 1. Where did Rose go? 2. Where did the fly stay?
3. What were Mr. and Mrs. Sutton doing that evening? 4. What
did Mr. Sutton say when his wife's head nodded? 5. What did
he do himself? 6. What happened to the old lady's cap?