House on Hummingbird Island
''We''re going to a fine place,'' Idie told Homer to console him, ''with gullies and monkeys and hummingbirds.''
Idie Grace is twelve when she inherits a grand old house on a Caribbean island, and is sent away from grey old England to a place where hummingbirds hover and monkeys clamber from tree to tree.
As a lady of property Idie can do as she pleases, so she fills the house with exotic animals, ...
''We''re going to a fine place,'' Idie told Homer to console him, ''with gullies and monkeys and hummingbirds.''
Idie Grace is twelve when she inherits a grand old house on a Caribbean island, and is sent away from grey old England to a place where hummingbirds hover and monkeys clamber from tree to tree.
As a lady of property Idie can do as she pleases, so she fills the house with exotic animals, ...
