I've got one all ready," said Rose, who was dying to distinguish herself in some way before Uncle Alec.
So everyone but Mac, the gay Westerner, and Rose, took their places on the rocky seats and discussed the late beautiful and varied charade, in which Pokey frankly pronounced her own scene the "bestest of all." In five minutes the curtain was lifted; nothing appeared but a very large sheet of brown paper pinned to a tree, and on it was drawn a clock-face, the hands pointing to four.

A small note below informed the public that 4 A.M.was the time.

Hardly had the audience grasped this important fact when a long waterproof serpent was seen uncoiling itself from behind a stump.

An inch-worm, perhaps, would be a better description, for it travelled in the same humpy way as that pleasing reptile.

Suddenly a very wide-awake and active fowl advanced, pecking, chirping, and scratching vigorously.