1. After a little more time had passed, Betty was taken out of the yard. They did not let her stay with her sisters and the other fowls¹ any longer, but she was placed in a large room by herself.  
2. Here she was fed on all sorts of dainties. She had chestnuts², minced³ liver, new milk, and fresh lettuce⁴. Life was now a feast to Betty, but she found it rather dull.
 
3. "I would rather have one worm or a spider," said she, with a sigh. How she longed for a good scamper⁵ with her sisters! "I am sure that we should never squabble now," said the poor, lonely little thing.
 
4. But this time alone did not last long. One morning a worse thing was done to her. She was taken by the cook and plunged⁶ into a warm bath. It was not of the least use for her to kick and scream.[Pg 115]
 
5. The cook did not care. She rubbed Betty gently with a soaped flannel⁷, talking to her in a soothing⁸ way all the time, and then set her down before the fire to dry.
 
6. But Betty's fright was soon over, and she was not at all hurt, of course. Yet she might have caught her death of cold, and all this because of the show! that her feathers might look fine.
 
 
7. If t............