ed than Dorothy found herself sailing along as quietly as if such a thing as bad weather had never been heard of. But there was something very lonely about the

little shudder at the mere thought of such a thing, when the sideboard bumped up against something and she found that it had run into a tree. In fact, she found that she had drifted into a forest of enormous trees, growing in a most remarkable manner stra

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e trees had a fancy for going about visiting in boats. But she couldn't help wondering who in the world, or, rather, who in the trees, the people went to see, for all the little doors were shut as tight as wax, and had notices posted up on them, such

sideboard; and she was therefore greatly pleased when she presently came to a door without any notice upon it. There was, moreover, a bright little brass knocker on this door, and a

a number of large pies fell out into the water and floated away in all directions. To Dorothy's amazement, the sideboard immediately started off after them, and began pushing them

e stooped down and looked through it she saw there was a small winding stairway inside, leading up through the body of the tree. She listened

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flat as a pancake, and with a small house standing far out in the middle of it. It was a bright and sunny place, and quite like an ordinary field in every way except that, in place of grass, it had a curious floor of branches, clo

rming little cottage with vines trained about the lat

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as she said this she softly pushed open the door and went in. To her great surprise, there was no inside to the house, and she came out into the field again on the other side of the door. The wall on this side, how

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d gone out for a walk, and mig

the grapevine chairs in Uncle Porticle's garden; but the oddest part of it all was a ridiculous-looking bed with leaves sprouting out of its legs, and with great pink blossoms growing on the bed-posts like the satin bows on Dorothy's little bed at the Blue Admiral Inn. All this was so remarkable that she went over to where the furniture was standing to take a closer look at it; and as she came up alongside

t up in bed, and after taking a hurried look at her through his spy-g

hut up with you?" inqu

m," said t

d us," added

ing," put in

sorrowfully; "I s'pose it was somethi

that pinch your legs?" inquired Sir W

," said

it at all," said Si

such a positive way that Dorothy didn't like to contradict him. In fact she really didn't know anything ab

y, "but I can tell you how they behave"; an

he Needles and co

dy" frigate was S

f music, and his he

exhibited on ple

on his fingers, an

a piper on the han

le octaves, too, all

rondo on the b

eir packages, and ba

carriages, and gre

ommodores, arrived

music of this e

aptain humming, and b

erely said, "Why,

l hurried home, rem

nduct for a capt

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sailing-orders to

le fifing on the

ing-orders, as, of c

oyal Biddy" to the

it kindly, but it'

ch a pirate out up

ith variations,

his waistcoat, lik

the Pirate come a-

the Captain in t

said Sir Peter, "wit

mitations of a dou

d derisively, "I've

p a banner emble

serenely, "You may

tle ballad of 'The

d Sir Peter and Sir P

ay together as the

olitely, "You may boa

ttle dirge upon th

red like hornets down

the Pirate, and he

ust excuse me, but y

tation of that dou

ked Pirate, and they

ith double knots i

on their backs in

d and water within

HE PIRATE, AND HE T

a treasure (mostly

and stowed it in th

retire on this ca

allant crew, may have

oach-and-fours, and

pies and tarts, and

wigs, in gigs, still

ny music save a l

d!" said Dorothy, as the Admiral fini

al. "It had to be composed, you kno

been fine!" remar

o some kind of a fit; but just at this moment there was a sharp rap at the door,

miral, "I never thought of that

ighlander, with remar

thy in extreme agitation, and with this, the whole Cara

for us to be in"; and then she called out in a very loud voice, "We're

on a trellis, and the door only a little rustic gate leading through it. "And, dear me!-where has the furniture gone to?" she exclaimed, for the cur