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"Crush him with your teeth?" cried Aina. "Awful!" mocked Lorenzo.

"Now it is crawling on the table!" screamed Theresa anew.

"Blow it away," proposed the eldest sister quietly.

"Put your foot on it!" urged Lorenzo, contemptuously.

But Theresa took a raspberry-leaf, and gently swept the grub on to it, and carried it away into the yard. And Aina saw a sparrow sitting on the railings, peering wistfully at the tempting prey. So she took the leaf with the little grub on it and carried it into the wood, and hid it under a clump of raspberry canes, where the cunning little sparrow couldn't find it.

What more may there be to tell about a simple raspberry grub? Who cares a straw about such an insignificant little thing? I only wish I might live in such a pretty place, a cool, odorous crimson house like that, hidden in the tranquil wood amongst flowers and foliage.

It was now dinner-time, and everybody had

"What! eat a grub?" shouted Theresa, horrified.

"Crush him with your teeth?" cried Aina. "Awful!" mocked Lorenzo.

"Now it is crawling on the table!" screamed Theresa anew.

"Blow it away," proposed the eldest sister quietly.

"Put your foot on it!" urged Lorenzo, contemptuously.

But Theresa took a raspberry-leaf, and gently swept the grub on to it, and carried it away into the yard. And Aina saw a sparrow sitting on the railings, peering wistfully at the tempting prey. So she took the leaf with the little grub on it and carried it into the wood, and hid it under a clump of raspberry canes, where the cunning little sparrow couldn't find it.

What more may there be to tell about a simple raspberry grub? Who cares a straw about such an insignificant little thing? I only wish I might live in such a pretty place, a cool, odorous crimson house like that, hidden in the tranquil wood amongst flowers and foliage.

It was now dinner-time, and everybody had