CHAPTER IV.
HOME LESSONS AND HOME TRIALS.
BUZZ, buzz, buzz!—“There’s a bee in a web!” cried Tom, looking up from the bowl of porridge which he was eating in the rose-covered porch.
“Poor thing!” said Minnie, rising from her seat.
“A precious fright it must be in! what a noise it makes!” cried her brother.
“It is not much entangled—I think that I could set it free!”—and Minnie ran up to the web.
“And be stung for your pains. Nonsense—leave it alone. It is good fun to watch it in its struggles.”
POOR SIPSYRUP IN A SNARE.