EASTER
MOLLY'S EASTER HEN
When Molly came in from the chicken house, she looked very sad.
"O dear me!" she sighed. "I'm so disappointed!"
"What is it, sunny girl?" asked mother.
"Red Top hasn't laid an egg, and to-morrow is Easter. I shut Red Top in all by herself, so I should know that it was her very own egg, and she hasn't laid any."
"But the other hens have. We shall have plenty of Easter eggs to color," said mother.
"But I was going to take one of Red Top's eggs to Auntie Brooke for Easter," said Molly, dismally.
"Wouldn't any other egg do?" asked mother.