It was of no use. Even while she was talking, Minnie would clamber into some place so dangerous that her mother would have to run and take her down.
CHAPTER IV.
MINNIE AND THE SQUIRREL.
One day, when Minnie's mother had been telling her how wicked it was to be so disobedient, and how much trouble she gave every one that loved her, the little girl thought she never would climb another fence, but would begin now, and be good.
So she seated herself on the door-step, and was quiet as many as two minutes.
Then a little brown sparrow came hopping, hopping along the top of the fence, and stopped a short way off, and chirped, as if he were saying, "You can't catch me!"
"Can't I?" said Minnie, and another minute she was dancing along the rail.
The sparrow flew away, and then Minnie, remembering the promise which she had made to her mother, went back to her seat.