left her all alone. She lived in the woods all the summer, where the birds used to sing to her; but when winter came she was cold and hungry, and she knocked at the door of the Field Mouse, and asked for some barleycorns. The Field Mouse took her in and was very kind to her; but she wanted to make Little Totty marry an ugly old Mole, who used to come to visit her, and the poor little maiden was very unhappy, because she did not like the Mole. One day, just before she was to be married to the Mole, she went out into the fields to bid the bright sun good bye (for the sun does not shine into moles' houses), when she saw a little Swallow whose life she had saved, and to whom she had been very kind; and she told him all her trouble. Then the kind bird invited Little Totty to seat herself on his back, which she gladly did, and he flew away to the warm lands where it is always sunshiny, except at night. Then he put her down on a beautiful large white flower like a convolvulus, only prettier, and to her |