The Admiral's Caravan

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floor of the garden floating away, far above her head, with the flapping trunks of the trees dangling from it like a lot of one-legged trousers. This was a rather ridiculous spectacle, and

aimed, peeping cautiously over the edge; "and there's the real floor ever so far away. I can never jump down there in the world without being dashed to destruction!"-and she was just thinking how it would do to hang from the edge of the shelf by her hands and then let herself drop (with her eyes shut, of course) when a little party of people came tumbling down through the air and fell in a heap close beside her. She gave a scream of dismay and then stood staring at them in utter bewilderment, for,

USUAL BAD LUCK, HAD PUT

these things under the bed. Bob Scarlet isn't anywhere about, is he?"

serious. "I should think he was abou

aimed Sir Walter, angrily, smoothin

matter?" said Dorothy, beginnin

"why, look here! We was all shrinking away to nothing in that wanishing

igger than uncles,"

nute," said Sir Walter, surveying Dorothy with

start. "It seems to me that's extremely small.

it," said the Admiral. "We'd have been completely in

id Dorothy, solemnly. "Did

ing part of it was quite agreeable-so cool and rushin

and with this the Caravan locked arms and walked away

of dolls, here's a perfect multitude of 'em!" she exclaimed, for just then she came upon a long row of dolls beautifully dressed, and standing on their heels with their heads against the wall. They were at least five times as big as Dorothy herself, and had price-t

ent on, examining one delightful thing after another; "and here's a farm out of a box, and all the same funny old things-trees with green shavings on them and fences with feet so they'll stand up, and here's the dear fam'ly, same size as the trees and the houses, of course, and-oh! I beg your pardon," she exclaimed, for her fr

dmiral, excitedly; "they've got ju

ed the Highlander, uproarious

into a fit of uncontrollable laugh

You can find anything in arks if you only go deep enough. I'

inquired the Highlander wit

ghter at this. "He's really the most ignor

of arks!" The rest of the Caravan evidently sided with him in this opinion, and after staring at Dorothy fo

saw," and with this she walked away through the shop, and was just beginning to look at the toys again, when she came suddenly upon an old dame sitting contentedly in th

gs!"-and here she aimed a blow at Dorothy with her spoon. "They're enough to scare folks out of their senses. Give me the old-fashioned kind-d

an persons when you see them! Of course, being so small is rather unusual, and it's really quite dangerous, you know," she went on, giving a little shiver at the thought of

bells on the seams of his clothes and with arms and legs of different colors, and he was lounging in an easy attitude with his right leg thrown over the top of a toy liver

zen at all. I'm a single person. That sounds kind of unma

S COME IN DOZENS, ASSORT

" said the Jack, loo

," said Dorothy

Jack, with quite a professional air. "Family of nine, two maids wi

rked Dorothy, beginning t

more select," said the Jack. "We

ly. "I can't imagine anybody wanting tw

ant 'em," said the Jack. "They couldn'

g-tops change into a plateful of pears while she chanced to be looking at them; and a moment afterward she caught a doll's saucepan, that was hanging in one corner of the window, just in the act of quietly turning into a

happens is so unproblesome. I don't know where I got that word from," she went on, "but it seems to express exactly what I mean. F'r instance, there's a little cradle that's just

urned into a smart little baronial castle with a turret at each end, and that the ornamental tea-cup was just chang

mantic at times-and she was just admiring the clever way in which the boat was getting rid of the handle of the tea-cup, when the Dancing-Jack suddenly stopped talking, and began scrambling over the r

thing," he said, glaring wildly about,

thy in dismay; "what do yo

as he was finishing this remark a sort of wriggle passed through him, and, to Dorothy's a

shed by the Harlequin, it mixed up the two in a very confusing way. In fact, by the time the remark came to an end, Dorothy didn't really know which of them was talking to her, and, to make matters worse,

out anything about the matter, for in the mean time a part of the castle had quietly turned upside down, and was now a little stone bridge with the stream flowing beneath it, and the Harlequin, w

?" said Dorothy, feeling quite sure

plied the Harlequin; "I suppose t

; "only it seems a rather queer way o

e he had both feet in the boat, and had evidently decided on the water excursion, for, before Do

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