At the same time she took delight in talking about her winter quarters, as she called the place where she intended to live during cold weather.
"It will be cozy and warm there," she often remarked to her callers, of whom she had huge numbers. For there was scarcely a person in the orchard or the garden that didn't burn with curiosity to know more about the fine, big house into which Mrs. Ladybug expected to move.
"My winter quarters will be wind-proof," Mrs. Ladybug told them. And that speech set them all to guessing again.
Almost everybody said then that she was going to live underground.
"I shall not feel a drop of rain—not even during the January thaw," Mrs. Ladybug went on.
And then everybody had to begin guessing all over again; for rain drops were sure to trickle into an underground house during a warm spell.
"You're going to live in a pumpkin!" cried Buster Bumblebee.
And all the neighbors—even Mrs. Ladybug—laughed when they heard that.
Buster knew of an old tune called "The Bumblebee in the Pumpkin," and he cried with some heat that he could think of no reason why there shouldn't be "A Ladybug in a Pumpkin."
"I told you my house was big—the biggest one on the farm," Mrs. Ladybug reminded him.