"If flowers had a language, as has oftentimes been said,
I wonder if the buttercups would cry aloud for bread?"
SLEPT IN THE HEN-COOP.
"Papa, is Mrs. Bigelow very poor?"
"No, Cedric, Mrs. Bigelow is well off; don't you know what a nice house she has?"
"But she sleeps in the hen-coop, papa."
"Why, Cedric!"
"She said she did."
"What do you mean?"