read Amelia Bedelia. She looked up. The sun was coming in.
Amelia Bedelia looked at the list again. “Draw the drapes? That’s what it says. I’m not much of a hand at drawing, but I’ll try.” So Amelia Bedelia sat right down and she drew those drapes.
Amelia Bedelia marked off about the drapes.
“Now what?”
Put the lights out when you finish in the living room.
Amelia Bedelia thought about this a minute. She switched off the lights. Then she carefully unscrewed each bulb.
And Amelia Bedelia put the lights out. “So those things need to be aired out, too. Just like pillows and babies. Oh, I do have a lot to learn.”
“My pie!” exclaimed Amelia Bedelia. She hurried to the kitchen.
“Just right,” she said. She took the pie out of the oven and put it on the table to cool. Then she looked at the list.
Measure two cups of rice.
“That’s next,” said Amelia Bedelia. Amelia Bedelia found two cups. She filled them with rice. And Amelia Bedelia measured that rice.
