wuz a good high one, and not let The Little Maid out of her sight night
or day.

[Illustration: He gin the nurse strict orders.]

Wall, the nurse knew it wuz wrong--she knew it, but she did it. Jest as
Cain did, and jest as David did, when he killed Ury, and Joseph's
brother and Pharo, and you and I, and the relations on his side and on
yourn.

She knew she hadn't ort to. But bein' out a-walkin' with The Little Maid
one day, a home-sick feelin' come over her all of a sudden. She wanted
to see her sister--wanted to, like a dog.

So, as the day wuz very fair, she thought mebby it wouldn't do any
hurt.

The sky was so blue between the green boughs of the Park! There had been
a rain, and the glistenin' green made her think of the hedgerows of old
England, where she and Katy used to find birds' nests, and the blue wuz
jest the shade of the sweet old English violets. How she and Katy used
to love them! And the blue too wuz jest the color of Katy's eyes when
she last see them, full of tears at partin' from her.

She thought of Elnathan's sharp orders not to go down into the city, and
not to let The Little Maid out of her sight.

Wall, she thought it over, and thought that mebby if she kep one of her
promises good, she would be forgive the other.