"'Bout's big as me, you _said_," put in Dotty.

"O, yes, I did say so once, and I suppose I must tell it so every time,
or you'll fuss! Well, I had a yellow dress all striped off in checks--"

"Di'n't it go this way?" said Dotty, smoothing the sheet with her little
hand, "and this way?"

"What? What?" Susy roused herself and rubbed her eyes. "O, yes, it went
in checks; and I was at grandma Parlin's, and Grace--Grace--O, Grace and
I went into the pasture where there were a couple of cows, a gray cow
and a red cow."

"Now you must say what _is_ couple," says Dotty.

"Then what is couple?"

"Gray cow," answers Dotty, very gravely.

"So when the cows saw us coming, they--they--O, they threw up their
heads, and stopped eating grass--in the air. I mean--threw--up--their
heads." Susy was nearly asleep.

"Up in the air?"

"Yes, of course, up in the air. (There, I _will_ wake up!) And the gray
cow began to run towards us, and Grace says to me, 'O, my, she thinks
you're a pumpkin!'"

"You?"