5. I could hardly crawl when I got on to the table-cloth. She saw it and placed me on a green laurel leaf outside. I sat there half dead, and yet I heard what they were all saying inside the summer-house.
6. "Lucy," said Rose to the little girl, "you would have been glad if you could have been lifted out like that poor fly, when you fell into the pond at home, would you not?
7. "You went to the bottom before any person came to help you. Were you in a great fright? How did you feel?"
8. "Why," said Lucy, "I was in a great fright when I first fell in, but after that I think that I must have been asleep, for I forgot it all. I knew nothing after my tumble down the bank, till I heard my mother near me.
9. "She was saying, 'God bless you, darling,' and then I found myself lying in bed."
"Ah," said her brother Tom, "Neptune, our dog, had a famous supper that night."
10. "Why?" asked a little boy, from the other end of the table.
"Oh, did you not know that it was Neptune who pulled my sister out of the water?" said Tom.
11. "He saw her go in, and without being told, he got her out. She would have been drowned without him. She had been told not to go near the pond, but she ran down to it, without leave, when no one was looking."
12. The other little girl here grew very red. "You need not have said that, Tom," said she. But Tom was a bit of a tease. He only laughed and said that his sister was always doing what she was told not.