See his ears shake! He's putting something in his mouth." "In whose mouth ?" Mr.Parlin looked across the aisle.
"That 'big man' is my old friend Captain Lally," said he quite pleased; and in a moment he was shaking hands with him.

Presently the captain and his son Adolphus changed places with the woman and the freckled girl, and made themselves neighbors to the Parlins.

The two seats were turned _vis-a-vis_, the gentlemen occupying one, the children the other.
Now Dotty discovered what it was that Adolphus had in his lap; it was a Spanish rabbit; and if you never saw one, little reader, you have no idea how beautiful an animal can be.

If there is any gem so soft and sparkling as his liquid Indian-red eyes, with the sunshine quivering in them as in dewdrops, then I should like to see that gem, and have it set in the finest gold, and send it to the most beautiful woman in the world to wear for a ring.

This rabbit was white as a snowball, with ears as pink as blush roses, and a mouth that was always in motion, whether Adolphus put lumps of sugar in it or not.
Dotty went into raptures.