There is the wonderful Great Wall of China; here is a Chinese lady, with a foot littler than mine.
There is a wild horse of Tartary; and here, most strange of all--is a land of ice and snow, without green fields, woods, or gardens.

In this land, they found some mammoth bones: there are no mammoths now.

You don't know what it was; but I can tell you, because Graham told me.

A mighty, goblin creature, as high as this room, and as long as the hall; but not a fierce, flesh-eating thing, Graham thinks.

He believes, if I met one in a forest, it would not kill me, unless I came quite in its way; when it would trample me down amongst the bushes, as I might tread on a grasshopper in a hayfield without knowing it." Thus she rambled on.
"Polly," I interrupted, "should you like to travel ?" "Not just yet," was the prudent answer; "but perhaps in twenty years, when I am grown a woman, as tall as Mrs.Bretton, I may travel with Graham.