but you cannot get opposite the dairy window anyhow.

We got the sheet down again when we had tied the torn parts
together in a bunch with string, and Oswald was just saying--

'Now then, my hearties, pull together, pull with a will! One, two,
three,' when suddenly Dora dropped her bit of the sheet with a
piercing shriek and cried out--

'Oh! it's all wormy at the bottom. I felt them wriggle.' And she
was out of the water almost before the words were out of her mouth.

The other girls all scuttled out too, and they let the sheet go in
such a hurry that we had no time to steady ourselves, and one of us
went right in, and the rest got wet up to our waistbands. The one
who went right in was only H. O.; but Dora made an awful fuss and
said it was our fault. We told her what we thought, and it ended
in the girls going in with H. O. to change his things. We had some
more gooseberries while they were gone. Dora was in an awful wax
when she went away, but she is not of a sullen disposition though
sometimes hasty, and when they all came back we saw it was all
right, so we said--

'What shall we do now?'

Alice said, 'I don't think we need drag any more. It is wormy. I
felt it when Dora did. And besides, the milk-pan is sticking a bit
of itself out of the water. I saw it through the dairy window.'

'Couldn't we get it up with fish-hooks?' Noel said. But Alice