e thrown over his head and landed into the water, but K

rd them and in a minute they were taken from

nel Cob. "If you wish for anyth

said a deep, strange voice, and looking about, Kernel Cob and

s face was browned as if by the sun, earrings were in his ears, a black h

sembled the hero in a story. He h

moved away from him but Kernel Cob, who always welcomed a new

d what

answered t

id Sweetclover, "you lo

that's what I'm painted to be, but

out here in this boa

who picked you up is a pu

him a bit," sa

's why we are in the boat, for yesterday during the puppet show, he broke the Hero in a rage and

ndsome," said

in. "He's got to be. H

ou so ugly?" a

only play the part of a villain in the play. My real self is something very diff

we are?" aske

want the Villain to think he wasn't sma

ro, and from that moment

how you got into the wate

-horse from Cuba,

iting adventure," said the

on a parasol and all that. When he had finished, he

but that he was very unhappy, leading a wicked life. What annoye

e said, "that you can nev

ve a sharp glance at the Hero. "Many a

taking the Villain and the Hero under one arm and Kernel Co