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“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, 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.