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Ladybug turned to Daddy Longlegs once more and demanded whether he knew of anything else that Betsy Butterfly was in the habit of taking from Farmer Green. "Eggs!" he replied promptly. "Eggs!" Mrs. Ladybug repeated after him. "Betsy Butterfly steals butter and eggs!" And before Daddy Longlegs could stop her she had hurried away to spread the news far and wide. LITTLE Mrs.
"We'll have to look in the meadow. And it may take a long time to find Betsy there." Jennie Junebug yawned right in Mrs. Ladybug's face. "Then I can't come with you," she said. "I'm getting terribly sleepy again. And since I expect to be up all night, I'm going to take a nap." Mrs. Ladybug looked at Jennie with great disapproval as that fat young person crept under a leaf and went to sleep.
"I should think she might easily spare me a small sample!" Mrs. Ladybug cried at last. "I'm afraid Farmer Green's wife is stingy." Mrs. Ladybug hoped that Johnnie Green's mother would hear her remark. But she didn't. And in the end Mrs. Ladybug had to fly away with her longing for butter still unsatisfied. Meanwhile Betsy Butterfly had been amusing herself in the meadow to her heart's content.
"It's a dinner bell," she explained. They gazed at it in wonder, until at last somebody spoke up and demanded, "What's it for?" "To give the alarm with!" she replied. "What alarm?" chimed a chorus of voices, high and low. Mrs. Ladybug smiled an odd sort of smile as she answered, "The fire alarm, of course! Everybody's always talking fire to me. It makes me frightfully uneasy.
There's so little one can do alone in case of fire. But now " she added "now when anyone says 'Fire! I'm going to ring this bell with all my might." Well, people didn't know what to say then. Later, however, they gathered about in groups and talked a good deal about Mrs. Ladybug and her dinner bell. Miss Moth said that she feared Mrs.
She had intended to berate Jennie for devouring the leaves of Farmer Green's trees and to order her to stop such damage at once. But Jennie Junebug hadn't allowed her to say much. In her playful way she had knocked the breath out of Mrs. Ladybug. "I must try some other plan," thought Mrs. Ladybug. "And I'll have to have help."
We've warned her; and we'll leave her to think over what she's done.... I hope " Mrs. Ladybug added, turning to Betsy Butterfly "I hope you'll decide to turn over a new leaf." "Why, that's exactly what she did, that time when I saw her!" Daddy Longlegs shouted. "While I was watching her I saw her turn over a leaf. So what's the use of her turning over another." And now it was Mrs.
"Don't tell me you haven't noticed how untidy Betsy Butterfly is! Can it be possible that the airs she gives herself, and her fine manners, have deceived you?" "What is it?" asked Mehitable Moth breathlessly. And as for Jennie Junebug, her breath was coming so fast that she couldn't say a word. "I'll tell you exactly what I mean," Mrs. Ladybug continued.
The Bug Boys watched the fish until they grew tired, and they were just starting down the tall reed when a great big dragon fly flew upon the top of the reed and called to them. Of course all the Bug Boys knew old Gran'pa Skeeterhawk for it was he so the three returned to the reed and sat down again to pass the time of day with Gran'pa. Presently Willy Ladybug saw a strange fish in the water.
Maybe she was merely a gay, careless creature who never stopped to consider that she was injuring Farmer Green when she hurt his trees. At least, that was what some of Mrs. Ladybug's other neighbors sometimes remarked. But Mrs. Ladybug never could believe that Jennie had a single good trait unless it was good nature. For she was always ready with a laugh, no matter what anybody said to her.
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