128 Old Primrose

side, and was completely shut in; then he
waited.

He was waiting for little Daisy Tinkler
to come by from school; for he was de-
termined to convince her above every one
else. He owed her a grudge, you know.

He had left a little eye-hole to look out of ;
and presently he perceived Daisy coming
along.

When she was close
by old Primrose, in-
side the egg, called
out, ‘“‘ Look out for the
caterpillar !”

Daisy, of course,
could not make out
whence the voice came;
but she stopped, and noticed the great egg.

«Stand by there!” shouted old Primrose,
poking his head through the shell and
emerging.

Now this time he had really prepared
the thing well. He had mixed some white-
wash with some of the green colour which
people use for tinting the glass of green-