12. Here a dog barked on the road outside, and the dog in the garden pricked up his ears and barked too.
'They are talking to each other,' said Dora.
BUTTERCUPS.
| chil´-dren | hun´-gry | piec´-es | mid´-dle |
| flow´-ers | bas´-ket | hair´-y | break |
| dai´-sy | ought | yel´-low | leaves |
| chains | but´-ter | threads | seeds |
1. One day the children were out in the fields, running races, picking flowers, and making daisy-chains!
2. When they began to feel tired and hungry, they got milk and cake out of mother's basket, and had a long rest on the dry, warm grass.
3. 'How these buttercups shine!' said Dora; 'they look like gold!'
'Gold-cups, they ought to be called, not butter-cups,' said Harry. 'They look like cups, don't they?'
4. 'But they would not hold water like real cups. Look at this one; it is in five pieces.'