and dug all our cabbage patch up, but there weren't any babies but
there were no end of worms."

"I wish I had a baby," said Emmeline, "and I wouldn't send it back
to the cabbage patch.

"The doctor," explained Dick, "took it back and planted it again;
and Mrs James cried when I asked her, and daddy said it was put
back to grow and turn into an angel."

"Angels have wings," said Emmeline dreamily.

"And," pursued Dick, "I told cook, and she said to Jane [that] daddy
was always stuffing children up with--something or 'nother. And
I asked daddy to let me see him stuffing up a child--and daddy
said cook'd have to go away for saying that, and she went away
next day."

"She had three big trunks and a box for her bonnet," said
Emmeline, with a far-away look as she recalled the incident.

"And the cabman asked her hadn't she any more trunks to put on
his cab, and hadn't she forgot the parrot cage," said Dick.

"I wish _I_ had a parrot in a cage," murmured Emmeline, moving
slightly so as to get more in the shadow of the sail.

"And what in the world would you be doin' with a par't in a cage?"
asked Mr Button.