. St. Nicholas [serial] . , and the next moment she said this, so that Dorothy felt morally certain she was dancing in the ring. She was quite sur- it was a joke this time; but, before she could prised to see that the elephant was no bigger than make any reply, the Elephant called out Paws! the sheep; and, as she looked about, it seemed and the animals all stopped dancing and began to her, in the confusion, that all the animals in walking about and fanning themselves with little the room were of precisely the same size. portfolios which they produced in such a mys- ■] THE ADMIRALS CARAVAN. 53;
. St. Nicholas [serial] . , and the next moment she said this, so that Dorothy felt morally certain she was dancing in the ring. She was quite sur- it was a joke this time; but, before she could prised to see that the elephant was no bigger than make any reply, the Elephant called out Paws! the sheep; and, as she looked about, it seemed and the animals all stopped dancing and began to her, in the confusion, that all the animals in walking about and fanning themselves with little the room were of precisely the same size. portfolios which they produced in such a mys- ■] THE ADMIRALS CARAVAN. 53; terious manner that Dorothy could nt see wherein the world they came from. Now, look here, said the Elephant,— heseemed to be a sort of Master of Ceremonies,and the animals all clustered about him as hesaid this,— why cant she dance with theCamel ? and he pointed out Dorothy with hisportfolio. She can ! shouted the animals in on, Sarah! And the Camel, who hadbeen moping in a corner with her head against. THE ANIMALS BEGAN TO CROWD OUTOF THE FRONT GATEWAY. the wall, came forward with a very sulky ex-pression on her face. Her name is Sahara, whispered the Sheep,plucking at Dorothys frock to attract her atten-tion, but we call her Sarah to save time. She skind of grumpy now because the other Camelstayed away, but she 11 titter like a turtle whenshe gets to dancing. I dont know what relation she is to Hum-phrey, thought Dorothy, as the Camel took herby the hand, but she s certainly big enough tobe his grsat-grandmother ten times over. Be-fore she had time to think any more about it,the Elephant called out, Ladies change ! andthe dancing began again harder than ever. It was a very peculiar dance, and, as near asDorothy could make it out, consisted principallyin the animals passing her along from one toanother as if they were each anxious to get ridof her; and presently she discovered that, insome unaccountable manner, she had beenpassed directly through the firepl
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