I shall call again ; for you are ` most as good as a fairy there in your pretty tent , with a white clover for your bed . '' Daisy walked on a few steps , and then stopped to say : `` What does that bird mean by calling ` Hurry up , hurry up ? ' He keeps flying before us , and looking back as if he wanted to show me something . '' `` Let me hear what he says . I may be able to understand him , or the bob-o-link that swings on the alder by the brook . '' Wee listened a moment , while the birds twittered and chirped with all their hearts . Presently Wee sang in a tone very like the bob-o-link 's : `` Daisy and Wee , Come here , and see What a dainty feast is spread : Down in the grass Where fairies pass , Here are berries ripe and red . `` All wet with dew , They wait for you : Come hither , and eat your fill , While I gayly sing , In my airy swing , And the sun climbs up the hill . '' `` Did he really say that ? '' cried Daisy , watching the bob-o-link , who sat swaying up and down on the green bough , and nodding his white-capped head at her in the most friendly manner . `` Perhaps I did n't translate it rightly ; for it is very hard to put bird-notes into our language , because we have n't words soft and sweet enough . But I really think there are berries over there , and we will see if what he says is true , '' said Wee . Over the wall they went , and there , on a sunny bank , found a bed of the reddest , ripest berries ever seen . `` Thank you , thank you , for telling me to hurry up , and showing me such a splendid feast , '' said Daisy , with her mouth full , as she nodded back at the birds . `` These are so much sweeter than those we buy . I 'd carry some home to mamma , if I only had a basket . '' `` You can pick this great leaf full , while I make you a basket , '' said Wee . Daisy soon filled the leaf , and then sat watching her aunt plait a pretty basket of rushes . While she waited she looked about , and kept finding something curious or pleasant to interest and amuse her . First she saw a tiny rainbow in a dewdrop that hung on a blade of grass ; then she watched a frisky calf come down to drink on the other side of the brook , and laughed to see him scamper away with his tail in the air .
Close by grew a pitcher-plant ; and a yellow butterfly sat on the edge , bathing its feet , Daisy XXXXX .
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