X.
‘Have you got him?’ cries Bertie.
‘Yes, yes,’ answers Minnie. ‘Oh, come quick!’
Bertie runs up; but, oh, dear, the ill-natured butterfly has made his escape through a hole in the net, which had been torn by a hedge.
He laughs at Miss Minnie, the good-for-nothing butterfly! He flies up so high, so high, that the little hunters, gazing up at him, almost tumble over on their backs.
But the Donkey is not going to waste his time in staring up into the sky, and very wisely goes back to his browsing.
XI.
‘Let us lie down on the grass,’ says Bertie, ‘and be on the watch to take the peacock by surprise. When he cannot see any more of us, he will come down. Butterflies are too greedy to stay up in the air very long; they want to come down to suck the honey out of the flowers.’