6/9 It was gone! No doubt Flyaway had taken it. Instead of finding gold, she had lost something she supposed was more precious than gold. But she bore up as bravely as possible, and said to Mrs.Clifford,-- "You needn't punish the baby, Aunt 'Ria; she didn't know she was stealing." Dotty had never seen an eel. Like a coal mine, a pearl, a Guinea pig, a drunken man, and a _chegre_, she supposed an eel was peculiar to the climate, and could be found nowhere but out West. As it had been described as being "really a fish, but looking more like a snake," she did not expect to be very much charmed with its personal appearance. |