. St. Nicholas [serial] . y sailing underneath. One-two—three! Taking good aim, he shut his eyes and whizzed through the long he seemed in getting down! Hadhe missed it, and was he rushing down intothe sea? Poor Dumpling dared not openhis eyes. At last he struck something, and foundthat he had fallen flat on his new cloud. Ah, he sighed, I m glad I ve got he looked over the edge to see howthings were going. Yes, he was all right;the cloud was carrying him back to houses looked a little bigger now, andthe trees were taller. By and by Dumplingrecognized his ow
. St. Nicholas [serial] . y sailing underneath. One-two—three! Taking good aim, he shut his eyes and whizzed through the long he seemed in getting down! Hadhe missed it, and was he rushing down intothe sea? Poor Dumpling dared not openhis eyes. At last he struck something, and foundthat he had fallen flat on his new cloud. Ah, he sighed, I m glad I ve got he looked over the edge to see howthings were going. Yes, he was all right;the cloud was carrying him back to houses looked a little bigger now, andthe trees were taller. By and by Dumplingrecognized his own village—even his the cloud was carrying him past. Stop!stop! he shouted in desperation. But thecloud did nt stop. And as they slowlysailed along the cloud grew smaller andsmaller, till at last it was barely large enoughto hold him. Poor Dumpling was very , I shall never get home for supper, hewailed. But, he thought, perhaps I candrop down on to another cloud. So he studied those below him. Quite far. here and there he saw droves of sheepand oxen. (see page ii2i.) -U-C? I 120 DUMPLING S WONDERFUL VOYAGE. [Oct. down he could see some which appeared to be the courage! He tried to jump; but no, hegoing back toward Bonheur. Dumpling was was afraid. He leaned far over again, longing
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