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She thought possibly she would be safer in Ernest 's room , but Ernest and Carol were doing their algebra there . At last she settled down in the front parlor and by tea time was deep in the adventures of Rosamond Clifford , romantic and unreal enough to satisfy the most exacting child . For days the book was her constant companion outside of school hours . She read snatches of it to Sary and a chosen few in a corner of the schoolyard at recesses and noons . She hid it under her pillow ready for her devouring eyes at an early hour in the morning . To be sure Chicken Little never could wake up at an early hour , her mother having to call long and lustily before she could rouse her at all . Still the book was there if she should happen to want it .