![]() ![]() I think I’ll get up very, very quietly, so’s not to wake Father and Mother.” “It’s much too beautiful a morning to stay in bed till breakfast-time. “Well!” said Milly-Molly-Mandy to herself. The doves in the dove-cote were saying “Coo-roo-o-o!” to each other, in a soft, lazy sort of way and the hens round the hen-house in the field were saying “Ker-ruk-ruk!” to each other, in a soft, busy sort of way and Old Marmaduke the cock was yelling “Doodle-doo!” to everybody, at the top of his voice, only it sounded soft because he was right the other side of the barn. ![]() Milly-Molly-Mandy (whose full name was really Millicent Margaret Amanda) knelt up on the foot of her cot-bed and softly lifted one corner of the blind, and peeped out.Īnd it was the most beautiful, quiet summer morning that ever was. And she knew it was a beautiful summer morning, because the cracks around the window-blinds were so bright she could hardly look at them. She knew it was very early, because Father and Mother were not moving (Milly-Molly-Mandy’s cot-bed was in one corner of Father’s and Mother’s room). Once upon a time, one beautiful summer morning, Milly-Molly-Mandy woke up very early. ![]()
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