How Mr. White and Billy laughed when little Dot said, "Oh, is that the
way you get milk on a farm? We get ours out of bottles."

Before milking time was over each little girl held her cup and had it
milked full of fresh, new milk.

At first the children thought they would carry the cups home and drink
the milk for breakfast. But they were so hungry they couldn't wait,
so they drank it standing in the barnyard, with Bonny-Belle and Bess
looking at them with soft, kind eyes.

That afternoon Mary had some work to do and Betty and Peggy went for a
walk with their mothers.

Little Dot was tired from her early morning visit to the barnyard. So
she took a book of fairy stories and went out into the near-by field.
She settled herself cozily under a big maple tree and began to read.
After a little while the book slid from her hands. Her head nodded and
nodded and then rested on the grass. Her eyes winked and winked and then
closed.

She must have slept almost an hour when she woke with a start. Something
very soft and moist was moving over her nose and cheeks. It felt almost
as if her face were being washed with a sticky cloth.

Dot opened her sleepy blue eyes and looked right into the big brown eyes
of Don, Buttercup's baby calf.

"Oh! Oh!" cried the little girl.