. St. Nicholas [serial] . ls. Only dis- side of the fencei Dorothy scrambled over and gized and tuff as anything. He says with a kurdling laffwe11 do. O save us. We wish we was home. There isno male and we send this by a noble rat. The Caravan. That s the mostridiculous letter I evergot! said Dorothy,gazing at it in blankastonishment; and Idont think its spelledvery well; but of course1 must go. I ought tofeel frightened, but Ireally feel as brave asan ox. I suppose thatsbecause I m going tohelp the unfortunate;and putting the letterin her pocket, shestarted off. It s perfectly sur-prising, sh
. St. Nicholas [serial] . ls. Only dis- side of the fencei Dorothy scrambled over and gized and tuff as anything. He says with a kurdling laffwe11 do. O save us. We wish we was home. There isno male and we send this by a noble rat. The Caravan. That s the mostridiculous letter I evergot! said Dorothy,gazing at it in blankastonishment; and Idont think its spelledvery well; but of course1 must go. I ought tofeel frightened, but Ireally feel as brave asan ox. I suppose thatsbecause I m going tohelp the unfortunate;and putting the letterin her pocket, shestarted off. It s perfectly sur-prising, she said to her-self as she ran along, the mischief they get into!They re really no more fit to be going aboutalone than so many infants ; and she was sopleased with herself for saying this that shebegan to feel quite large and bold. But itwas very clever of em to think of the rat, she ran on. Then she found herself climbing overrocks and wading through little puddles of waterwhere the sugar was set up on stones in the most. BY THIS TIME THEY WERE RUNNING SO FAST THAT SHE COULDHARDLY KEEP UP WITH THEM. thoughtful way, so that it should nt melt; andin another place the lumps were stuck up in aline on the trunk of a large tree, and, after lead-ing the way through a number of branches, sud-denly descended on the opposite side of thetree into a little bog, where Dorothy stuck fast THE ADMIRALS CARAVAN. 535 for several minutes and got her shoes very muchsoiled. All this was very provoking, and shewas beginning to get a little out of patience,when the lumps of sugar suddenly came to anend at a little stone wall; and, looking over it,she spied the Caravan in their cage. The cage proved to be an enormous rat-trap,and the Caravan, with remarkable presence ofmind, had put their legs through between thewires at the bottom of it, and were walkingbriskly along, holding up the cage with theirhands. The news of this extraordinary per-
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