1. I heard a little girl say, "Oh, Rose, there is a fly in your glass of wine."  
"Poor thing!" said the little girl next her, "take it out!"
 
"No, no!" said her brother; "let it alone. Let us see how he swims."
 
2. All this time I felt very bad. I was drowning, yet this boy could look on and talk like that.
 
3. Something seemed to take away all my breath¹ and strength. I heard the boy say, "If I fell into a pond I could not swim so well."
 
4. "Why, no," said Rose, "the fly has not a coat and trousers, as you have. But[Pg 91] I do not think it is fun to see him drowning, so I will take him out." And she pushed the handle of a spoon with care under me.
 
5. I could hardly crawl² 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[Pg 92] 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 fright³? 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 fo............