cried Mrs. Wing , covering her brood with trembling wings , and looking quite wild with alarm . `` Be calm , my friend , and bear with firmness the consequences of your folly , '' replied Mrs. Sooty-back , who did n't like Mrs. Wing , because she prided herself on her family , and rather looked down on chimney-swallows . `` You know , ma'am , I live at the great house , and am in the way of seeing and hearing all that goes on there . No fire is lighted in the study now ; but my landlord still sits on the hearth , and I can overhear every word he says . Last evening , after my darlings were asleep , and my husband gone out , I went down and sat on the andiron , as I often do ; for the fireplace is full of oak boughs , and I can peep out unseen . My landlord sat there , looking a trifle more cheerful than usual , and I heard him say , in a very decided tone : '' ` I 'll catch them , one and all , and keep them here ; that is better than pulling the place down , as I planned at first . Those swallows little know what they have done ; but I 'll show them I do n't forget . ' '' On hearing this a general wail arose , and Mrs. Wing fainted entirely away . Madam Sooty-back was quite satisfied with the effect she had produced , and departed , saying loftily : `` I 'm sorry for you , Mrs. Wing , and forgive your rude speech about my being related to chimney-sweeps . One ca n't expect good manners from persons brought up in mud houses , and entirely shut out from good society . If I hear any thing more , I 'll let you know . '' Away she flew ; and poor Mrs. Wing would have had another fit , if they had n't tickled her with a feather , and fanned her so violently that she was nearly blown off her nest by the breeze they raised . `` What shall we do ? '' she cried . `` Nothing , but wait . I dare say , Mrs. Sooty-back is mistaken ; at any rate , we ca n't get away without leaving our children , for they ca n't fly yet . Let us wait , and see what happens . If the worst comes , we shall have done our duty , and will all die together . '' As no one could suggest any thing better , Mrs. Dart 's advice was taken , and they waited . On the afternoon of the same day , Dr. Banks , a sand-swallow , who lived in a subterranean village over by the great sand-bank , looked in to see Mrs. Wing , and cheered her by the following bit of news : `` The man was down at the poor-house to-day , and took away little Nan , the orphan baby .
I saw him carry her to Will 's mother , and XXXXX him ask her to take care of it for a time .
Let brought decided goes happens heard replied sat sits suggest