. St. Nicholas [serial] . the moment she looked up andsaw the peaked roofs outlined against the sky. The houses were all brilliantly lighted up, andthere were great iron lamps swung on chainsacross the street, so that the street itself wasalmost as bright as day. There was a con-fused sound of fiddling going on somewhere,and as Dorothy walked along she could heara scuffling noise inside the houses as if the in-habitants were dancing about on sanded floors. 532 THE ADMIRAL S CARAVAN. [May, The strangest thing about the fiddling was Is nt it rather unusual, she said to thethat it seemed to be go
. St. Nicholas [serial] . the moment she looked up andsaw the peaked roofs outlined against the sky. The houses were all brilliantly lighted up, andthere were great iron lamps swung on chainsacross the street, so that the street itself wasalmost as bright as day. There was a con-fused sound of fiddling going on somewhere,and as Dorothy walked along she could heara scuffling noise inside the houses as if the in-habitants were dancing about on sanded floors. 532 THE ADMIRAL S CARAVAN. [May, The strangest thing about the fiddling was Is nt it rather unusual, she said to thethat it seemed to be going on somewhere in the Sheep (it seemed more natural, somehow, toair, and the sound appeared to come from all speak to the Sheep) — is nt it rather unusual directions at once; and presently, as Dorothyturned a corner, she came upon a number ofstorks who were dancing a solemn sort of qua-drille up and down the middle of the stopped dancing as Dorothy came along,and, after gazing gravely at her for a moment,. AN ELEPHANT AND A SHEEP SEIZED HER BY THE HANDS. AND THE NEXTMOMENT SHE WAS DANCING IN THE KING. flew away over the tops of the houses, withthe sound of the fiddling following them like atraveling band until it finally died away in thedistance. But the scuffling noise in the houses contin- for different animals to be so much alike ? Not in our set, said the Sheep, conceitedly. We all know who s who. Of course we haveto mark the pigs, as they re so extremely like thepolar-bears; and Dorothy noticed that twopigs, who were dancing just opposite to her, hadlabels with pig on themhung around their necks bylittle chains, as if they hadbeen a couple of decanters— only, she thought, itwould have been sherry or madeira instead of pig, you know. I suppose you all cameout of a Noahs Ark, shesaid presently, at a venture. Of course. How veryclever you are! said theSheep, admiringly. Lar-gest size, I believe. By theway, the Sheep added con-fidentially, those two tapirsove
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