“‘I thouldn’t like her to bring up my child,’ said Draco. ‘The ’th too exthitable.’
“‘We can decide about yours when you have one!’ said Cassiopeia. ‘Now, who is going after that baby? Because I think they’d better be starting.’
“‘What over the sun are you talking about?’ asked Orion. ‘Going where?’
“‘We are going to adopt that Bee Baby. If some one doesn’t start at once, I shall go myself!’
“‘Adopt the Bee Baby!’ cried every one in chorus. They were too much astounded to say anything original; they could only repeat her words—though they knew it was rude.
“‘That was what I said,’ said Cassiopeia.
“‘But you can’t,’ said Orion. ‘No one ever thought of doing such a thing. It isn’t the Rule of the Sky.’
“‘Do you know any Rule that says we can’t?’ asked Cassiopeia.
“‘No,’ answered Orion; and that disposed of him.
“‘How could you take care of him?’ asked Perseus. ‘He’d keep getting lost; and he mightn’t like it.’