Explore "Butterflyflutterby and Flutterbybutterfly" by William Dean Howells on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
One morning when the papa was on a visit to the grandfather, the nephew and the niece came rushing into his room and got into bed with him. He pretended to be asleep, and even when they grabbed hold of him and shook him, he just let his teeth clatter, and made no sign of waking up. But they knew he was fooling, and they kept shaking him till he opened his eyes and looked round, and said, "Oh, oh! where am I? " as if he were all bewildered.
"You're in bed with _us_! " they shouted; and they acted as if they were afraid he would try to get away from them by the way they held on to his arms.