Second Evening"Yesterday," said the Moon to me, "I looked down upon a
small courtyard surrounded on all sides by houses. In the courtyard
sat a clucking hen with eleven chickens; and a pretty little girl
was running and jumping around them. The hen was frightened, and
screamed, and spread out her wings over the little brood. Then the
girl's father came out and scolded her; and I glided away and
thought no more of the matter.
"But this evening, only a few minutes ago, I looked down
into the same courtyard. Everything was quiet. But presently the
little girl came forth again, crept quietly to the hen-house,
pushed back the bolt, and slipped into the apartment of the hen and
chickens. They cried out loudly, and came fluttering down from
their perches, and ran about in dismay, and
