half expecting at any moment to feel the Roc's great beak pecking at his back. Fortunately his legs carried him along so remarkably well that he

ntion particularly was the word "Ribsy" painted in whitewash on his side in large letters. He was looking at this, and wondering if it were the horse's name, when the door of the cab flew open and a man fell out, and, after rolling over in the dust, sat up in the middle of the road and began yawning. He was even a more ri

hastily referring to t

wning again. "Climb in, and don'

t of the cab, all the rest of the space being taken up by a large bath-tub that ran across the front end of it. Davy turned on one of the faucets, but nothing came

w, and, winking at him confidentially, said, "Can

said

used up," sa

t's a very good co

's the best one I can make with thi

id B.G.,"

window. Presently there was a loud trampling overhead, and

ON TOP OF THE CAB AND WAS T

d was throwing stones at the horse,

caught sight of Davy. "If he doesn't start pretty soo

d Davy, anxiously. "I'd

f. "This is a very valuable stand, and I don't care to lose my plac

ut his collar. He was holding his big head high in the air, like a giraffe, and gazing proudly about him as he ran.

en to by a cab-horse, but Davy answ

beating a horse about the head with a three-legged stool, i

it was," said

so untidy as going about without a collar. The truth is," he continued, sitting down in the road on his hind legs,-"the truth is, I'm not an ordinary

t, if you please,"

little hoarse

y big horse," said Da

ood enough not to interrupt me again;" and, giving two or

ining, this li

's time among w

dining at gent

turkeys and cr

rise that I'm co

e legs, and I'm

e flies, with thei

of reach of my

ng up and turning himself aroun

ful inspection, "I think it looks

oomily, and, sitting down again

kid and as tr

days of the T

et rid of the we

ntentedly in

ld that this j

trick repreh

ld, like a commo

ircus for lodg

rse?" said Ribsy, stopping short in his ve

," sai

thing about it," said Ri

please, should

ladder and pr

s knees be made t

tricks that he'd

a horse, for

employment so

coarse-looking

is back on a

t he ought to make some sort of an answer to such

id Ribsy, tossing

ck, with no hope

race with an

neck, with a

uited for dr

straps, and they br

too rapidly ov

aps, why a num

peared on my p

avy, eagerly; "I thou

next verse is the last you needn't trouble

pot which I us

ays, with a fr

ot, which was pla

oyed by the c

marks will determ

bony and thi

larks, to impro

tern moral conv

went. Two large blue-bottle flies were on his back, and his tail was flying around, with an angry whisk, like a pin-wheel; but,

d, looking back, he saw the poor cabman coming along the road on a brisk trot, dragging his c

w open again, and the three-legged stools came

ly. "Never mind the dust; I've turned it on t

t off the dust, but it seemed to come faster and faster, until he was almost choked, and by this time the gravel had become as large as cherry-stones, and was flying around in the cab and rattling about his ears like a little hail-storm. Now, all this was a great deal more than Davy had bargained for, and it was so very unpleasant that he presently sat down on t

Cow gazing down upon him, and solemnly chewing, as before. The house had such a familiar look to him that Davy felt quite at home; and, moreover, the Cow seemed quite like an old acquain

d Davy. "We came along

the Cow; "leastwise I never heard

s running away, yo

bman?" said the C

ing the cab,

-"while the horse was runn

laughing; "you never saw a

member," said the Cow; "but then, yo

y?" sa

very solemnly. "The fact

aid Davy, who was now fully pre

Cow, with a curio

very good joke," said th

t's more, it's true! Good-afternoon." And with this the Cow disapp

n upon the top of the house, out of sight. Then the cab door and the latticed windows fluttered gently for a moment, as if rather uncertain how to dispose of themselves, and finally faded away, one by one, as if they had been soaked into the bricks. Then the porch gravely took itself to pieces and carried itself, so to speak, carefully in through the front door; and finally the front door went in itself, and nothing was left of the house t