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Milly stooped down, and there in a soft little place, just between the hayrick and the ground, what do you think she saw? Three large brownish eggs lying in a sort of rough nest in the hay, and looking so round and fresh and tempting, that Milly gave a little cry of delight. "Oh, Tiza, how be utiful! How did they get there?" "It's old Sally, our white hen you know, laid them.
Norton went into the farmhouse, and the children went hand-in-hand down the garden, looking for Becky and Tiza. Suddenly, as they came close to the cherry-tree, they heard a laugh and a little scuffling, and looking up, what should they see but two little girls perched up on one of the cherry-tree branches, one of them sewing, the other nursing a baby kitten.
"Gee-up," shouted John in his loud cheery voice, and the horse made a step forward, while the children round cried "Hurrah!" and waved their hands. But suddenly there was a loud piteous cry which made John give the horse a sudden push back and drop his whip, and then, from where they sat, Milly and Tiza heard a sound of crying and screaming, while everybody in the field ran toward the hay-cart.
But Becky looked very pleased, and said she would like a picture-book she thought very much, for it was dull sometimes when mother was busy and Tiza was nursing baby. So perhaps, after all, it didn't matter having told her.
She ran down the garden path to the cherry tree, and as, in the various times they had been together, Becky and Tiza had taught her a good deal of climbing, she too clambered up into the wet branches, and was soon sitting close by Tiza, who had turned her cotton pinafore over her head and wouldn't look at Milly. "Tiza," said Milly softly, putting her hand on Tiza's lap, "do you feel very bad?"
Bessie and Charlie certainly didn't talk much; but Tiza, when once her mother had made her come, thought proper to get rid of a great deal of her shyness, and to chatter and romp so much that they quite fell in love with her, and could not be persuaded to go anywhere or do anything without her.
Throw some more!" he cried out, and Tiza began to pelt him fast, while Olly ran here and there picking them up, and every now and then trying to throw them back at Tiza; but she was too high up for him to reach, and they only came rattling about his head again. "She won't come down," said Becky, looking up at her sister. "Maybe she won't speak to you for two or three days.
In and out of the hayricks they went, till in the very farthest corner of all, where hardly anybody ever came, and which nobody could see into from the yard, Tiza suddenly knelt down and put her hand under the hay at the bottom of the rick. "You come," she whispered eagerly to Milly, pulling her by the skirt, "you come and look here."
Backhouse looked in astonishment at the three eggs lying in Milly's print skirt, and at Milly's pleading little face. "Ay, that's Sally, I suppose. She's always hiding her eggs is Sally, where I can't find them. So it was Tiza found them, was it, Missy? Well, they will come, in very handy for supper as it happens. Thank you kindly for bringing them in." And Mrs.
"We never have a bath in the river," said Becky, looking very much astonished at the idea. "Do you have your bath in the nursery like we do?" asked Milly. "We haven't got a nursery," said Becky, staring at her, "mother puts us in the toob on Saturday nights. I don't mind it but Tiza doesn't like it a bit.
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