ased when, after walking a little way, she came in sight again of the bank covered with

just as she was going by, the bridge itself began hitching up in the middle and pawing, as it were, at t

black spots scattered about), and after rocking back and forth once or twice, as if to be sure it really was a horse, settled down perfectly still as if it never expected to be anything else. In fact, with th

SITTING IN A ROW ON A L

he Admiral had the Camel in his lap, and they were all gazing at it with an air of extreme solicitude. It was a frowsy little thing with lumpy le

ng him?" inquired

l, promptly. "He needs

t an awful dose!" said

nd here he flew into a tremendous passion, and began beating the Camel about the h

in the Highlander. "Set him up again and let's see him fall

hop and set him down upon the floor. The Camel looked about for a moment with a very mournful expression on his face, and then climbed into one of the drawers that was

ng up a little sign on the front of the shop with "CAMEL FOR SALE"

r. "The grocer's been sold for a cook because he

p?" asked Dorothy, who was

d the Admiral, climbing down from the be

inly keep things to

ngs if we sell 'em?"

e shop, you know," persisted Dorothy, feeling that she

d, "not unless your customers are crazy"; and with this remark the Caravan went into the

as there was a noise inside as if they were piling up the drawers against

WITH AN APPEARANCE OF GREAT

again to poor old Uncle Porticle and the Blue Admiral Inn, when, as she went around the corner of the little apothecary's shop, she came suddenly upon Bob Scarlet. To her great surprise, he was now just about the size of an ordinary robin; but h

e he's eaten something, or drunk something, to make him grow, the way they do in fairy stories; because the Admiral certainly said he wasn't any bigger than an a

Or p'r'aps he'd snap me up! I've often heard of snapping people up when they asked too many questions, but seems to me it never meant anything so awful as that before"; and she was rambling on in this way, laughing and crying by turns, when at th

by the bird-cage she saw that it was marked "PERFECTLY SECURE" in large letters. "And that's what t

F THE SHOP OPENED AND

in the window, with an expression of the greatest concern, and the next moment a door at the back of the shop opened and they all rushed out. They had on their sunbonnets

ee the old dame at the further end of the shop, running about and frantically striking at one thing after another with her spoon. To make matters worse, quite a little army of tin soldiers suddenly appeared, running confusedly about, with the

e dolls and the soldiers in great numbers, until she fortunately caught sight of the little rat-hole of a door, and, rushing through it,