"Flew about."

"And it didn't hurt you?"

"No. Why should it? I wasn't doing anything wrong."

"What did your companions say then?"

"They said--`Thank you, Diamond. What a dear silly you are!'"

"And weren't you angry with them?"

"No! Why should I? I should like if they would play with me a little;
but they always like better to go away together when their work
is over. They never heed me. I don't mind it much, though.
The other creatures are friendly. They don't run away from me.
Only they're all so busy with their own work, they don't mind
me much."

"Do you feel lonely, then?"

"Oh, no! When nobody minds me, I get into my nest, and look up.
And then the sky does mind me, and thinks about me."

"Where is your nest?"

He rose, saying, "I will show you," and led me to the other side
of the tree.

There hung a little rope-ladder from one of the lower boughs.