“Why, you have caught squirrels, haven’t you, time and again? and why not hens?”
“Nonsense, father,” said Royal; “there are no hens to come and get caught in traps.”
“Perhaps, Royal,” said Lucy, as she scattered her corn into the coop, “Perhaps.——We will put in the corn, at least,—and leave the door open.”
So Lucy put the corn in and about the door; and then the party all went away laughing. Lucy forgot her disappointment in the hope of catching some hens, and Royal in the amusement excited by such an idea as setting a trap for poultry.
CONVERSATION IX.
EQUIVOCATION.
Immediately after breakfast, the next morning, Lucy went out to look at the coop, to see if any hens had been caught; and when she came back, and said that there were none there, her father said that she must not despair too soon,—sometimes a trap was out several nights before anything was taken.
That day, after Royal had finished his lessons, Lucy called upon him to fulfil his promise of making her a garden.