This brought them to that part of the newly-discovered land which bordered on the desert's edge; but it was just as pretty here as anywhere, so the Ork and the birds alighted and the three passengers at once got out of their swings.
"Oh, Cap'n Bill, isn't this fine an' dandy ?" exclaimed Trot rapturously.

"How lucky we were to discover this beautiful country!" "The country seems rather high class, I'll admit, Trot," replied the old sailor-man, looking around him, "but we don't know, as yet, what its people are like." "No one could live in such a country without being happy and good--I'm sure of that," she said earnestly.

"Don't you think so, Button-Bright ?" "I'm not thinking, just now," answered the little boy.

"It tires me to think, and I never seem to gain anything by it.

When we see the people who live here we will know what they are like, and no 'mount of thinking will make them any different." "That's true enough," said the Ork.