We wath hot," she added, gravely, "and tho wath the puppieth, but the lightnin' couldn't get uth." The laugh that went up from the amused listeners aroused both the twins so thoroughly that they joined in without knowing what they were laughing about.

Then Alec and Walker carried them triumphantly on their shoulders to the wagonette, and once more the party started homeward.
This time they moved off without singing, but from the gate came back three cheers for the twins, then three cheers for the Little Colonel, who had found them.

Once started to cheering, somebody proposed three for the pillow-case party, and so lustily did they give them, that an old rooster, awakening from sleep as the wheels creaked by, thought it the call of some giant chanticleer, and promptly crowed an answering challenge, that was echoed by every cock in the Valley..