looking around she saw that it was the Highlander running along beside her, quite breathless, and trying very

e ground as if he were very much fatigued. "I've been w

Dorothy, wondering

to be greatly embarrassed, "you seem to be a very kind-heart

se it?" said D

r; "I only made it up. W

, as gravely as she could; "I s

ly and looking cautiously about-"it's called 'The Pickle and the P

tle pickle and h

Dorothy, "I don't thin

lander, gazing reflectively at his paper.

hing," said Dorothy, laughing.

iring his poetry with great industry. He did a great deal of writing, and

le pickle and he

hy; and the Highlander, clearing his voice,

tle pickle and h

just informed, all

came along, a-sw

tle pickle up and

said the Highlander, chuckling to himsel

who was ready to scream with la

er confusedly. "There was going to be another ver

r eyes were full of tears. "They are all funny," she said at last, as she walked away through the wood, "but I think he's funnier than all of '

E,' SAID THE HIGHLAND

nothing remarkable about that, but a tower of shining brass, and so high that the top of it was quite out of sight among the branches of the trees. But the strangest thing about it was that there seemed to be no possible

" asked Doro

e they were standing. He was as big as a goose again, and his appearance was so extremely formidable that the Caravan, as one man, threw themselves flat on their faces in a perfect frenzy of terror, and Dorothy herself hid in the grass, with her heart bea

up his head. "He went in at a little door not five minut

orothy. "But where is the door?" she added, runnin

m," said the Admiral

owly coming down, around and around, as if it were descending an invisible staircase on the outside of the tower. They all watched this p

all crowded around the little creat

ing with agitation. "You get big at the top, and little at the

ty big?" inqui

s as big as a squirrel; and while I was up there, Bob Sca

ous mess!" remark

hadn't taken it into his head to come up a

ng her hands with delight as a happy thought occurred to

fter a great deal of arguing and pushing and saying "You go in first," the whole party at last got squeezed in through the l

the Admiral's voice in the dark,

claimed Dorothy; for they had com

id Sir Walter, indignantly, staring at a high wall whe

rothy, quite bewildered. "It's r

like anything," said the Hig

said Dorothy, look

ried after them, but by the time she turned the corner they were quite out of sight; and as she stopped and looked about her she discovered t