"Aren't you going to let Mamie see him?" asked Alice.
"Oh, yes, when we are ready to put him into the water; but I dare say she'll go and say something hateful about him when she sees him. Mamie's real ugly to me, and I can't bear her."
VI.
POOR LITTLE WAGTAIL.
ARRIVED at the Rocks, the children speedily made their way to the pool which they considered their own special property, but, to their great disgust, found that their rights there had not been properly appreciated; for not only had some intruders been making free with their breakwater, but it was, as Mamie said, actually "unbuilt," and the stones lying scattered about in all directions.
But this was soon lost sight of in the new interest of the duckling; and Mamie was speedily taken into the secret.