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diff --git a/14110-h/14110-h.htm b/14110-h/14110-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5601c40 --- /dev/null +++ b/14110-h/14110-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,3439 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" +"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> +<html> +<head> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> +<title>The Project Gutenberg eBook of Kernel Cob And Little Miss Sweetclover, by George Mitchel</title> + <style type="text/css" id="internalstyle"> +/*<![CDATA[ XML blockout */ +<!-- + p { margin-top: .75em; + text-align: justify; + margin-bottom: .75em; + } + h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 { + text-align: center; /* all headings centered */ + margin-top: 2em; + margin-bottom: 1em; + } + hr { width: 100%; + margin-top: 3em; + margin-bottom: 3em;} + + body{margin-left: 10%; + margin-right: 10%; + } + + .signature {margin-left: 50%;} + .ctr {text-align: center;} + .linenum {position: absolute; top: auto; left: 4%;} /* poetry number */ + .note {margin-left: 2em; margin-right: 2em; margin-bottom: 1em;} /* footnote */ + .blkquot {margin-left: 4em; margin-right: 4em;} /* block indent */ + .pagenum {position: absolute; left: 92%; font-size: smaller; text-align: right;} /* page numbers */ + .sidenote {width: 20%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-left: 1em; font-size: smaller; float: right; clear: right;} + + .poem {margin-left:10%; margin-right:10%; text-align: left;} + .poem .stanza {margin: 1em 0em 1em 0em;} + .poem span {display: block; margin: 0; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;} + .poem span.i2 {display: block; margin-left: 2em;} + .poem span.i4 {display: block; margin-left: 4em;} + hr.full { width: 100%; } + a:link {color:blue; + text-decoration:none} + link {color:blue; + text-decoration:none} + a:visited {color:blue; + text-decoration:none} + a:hover {color:red} + pre {font-size: 8pt;} + // --> + /* XML end ]]>*/ + </style> +</head> +<body> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14110 ***</div> +<h1>The Project Gutenberg eBook, Kernel Cob And Little Miss Sweetclover, by +George Mitchel, Illustrated by Tony Sarg</h1> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<hr /> +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/01-frontcover.jpg" height="80%" alt="Front Cover" title="" /> +</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/02-inside.jpg" width="100%" alt="Front Cover" title="" /> +</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/05-title.jpg" width="100%" alt="Title Illustration" title="" /> +</p> + +<h1>KERNEL COB<br /> +AND</h1> +<h1>LITTLE MISS<br /> +SWEETCLOVER</h1> + +<h4><i>Written by</i></h4> + +<h3>GEORGE MITCHEL</h3> + +<h4><i>Illustrated by</i></h4> + +<h3>TONY SARG</h3> + +<h4>1918</h4> + +<h6>P. F. Volland Company<br /> +Chicago, U.S.A</h6> + + +<hr /> + + + +<p style="margin-left: 33%"><i>To</i> Ursula, Dordie, Hutch and Bob<br /> +And children the wide world over,<br /> +I dedicate brave Kernel Cob<br /> +And dear Little Miss Sweetclover.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/10-intro.jpg" height="80%" alt="" title="" /> +</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/11-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="Chapter I Header Picture" title="" /> +</p> + +<h2>CHAPTER I</h2> + +<p>Jackie was a little boy and he had a little sister named Peggs, and +they lived with their Aunt who was very old, maybe thirty-two.</p> + +<p>And it was so very long since she had been a little girl, that she +quite forgot that children need toys to play with and all that.</p> + +<p>So poor little Jackie and Peggs had no soldiers or dolls but could +only play at make-believe all day long.</p> + +<p>They lived in a little white house nearly all covered with +honeysuckle, and a little white fence with a little white gate in it +ran all about and at the back of the little white house was a little +garden with beautiful flowers growing in it.</p> + +<p>And once, when they were making pies in the garden, Peggs began to cry +and Jackie ran and put his arms about her, for he loved his little +Peggs very dearly; and he said to her:</p> + +<p>"What's the matter, Peggsie? Did a spider bite you?"</p> + +<p>"No," says Peggs, "it didn't."</p> + +<p>"Was it a naughty worm?"</p> + +<p>"No," says Peggs, "it wasn't."</p> + +<p>"Well, what was it?" says Jackie.</p> + +<p>"It weren't anything that bit me, only I want a doll," and away she +cried again.<a name="Page_8"></a></p> + +<p>"Huh!" says Jackie, "that's nothing. You don't want a doll any mor'n I +want a soldier," and he sat down beside her and began to cry, too.</p> + +<p>And after they had cried for a long time, maybe four hours or two, +they stopped.</p> + +<p>"I tell you what!" says Jackie.</p> + +<p>"What?" says Peggs, drying her eyes on her pinafore.</p> + +<p>"If no one will give us a soldier"...</p> + +<p>"But I don't want a soldier," says Peggs. "I want a doll."</p> + +<p>"Let's make one," says Jackie.</p> + +<p>"That's a good way," says Peggs.</p> + +<p>"You bet," says Jackie, and he slapped one of his legs the way sailors +do in tales of the sea.</p> + +<p>"What'll we make it of?" asked Peggs.</p> + +<p>"Things," says Jackie. "Goodie!" says Peggs.</p> + +<p>And they went in search of the things they would make the dolls of. +And pretty soon, Peggs made the most wonderful doll of flowers that +ever a child could see.</p> + +<p>The head was of Sweetclover, the dress was a purple morning-glory +turned upside-down so it looked like a bodice and a skirt, and it was +tied to the head so that they wouldn't come apart. And perched on the +top of the head was a little bonnet, only it wasn't really a bonnet, +you know, but a little four o'clock.</p> + +<p>And she called it Little Miss Sweetclover and it was the dearest +little doll and as fresh as the morning dew.</p> + +<p>In the meantime, Jackie had been busy, you may be sure; but he +couldn't find anything to make a soldier of except sticks of wood, but +he had no jack-knife, much as he had always wanted one.</p> + +<p>"Whatever shall I do?" thought Jackie, as he looked about the garden, +and just then he saw an ear of corn and he picked it up.</p> + +<p>"Maybe this will do," and he picked all the kernels off except two for +the eyes, one for the nose, two more for the ears and a row for the +teeth.<a name="Page_9"></a></p> + +<p>And he ran to Peggs to have her sew some clothes for his soldier.</p> + +<p>"What do you think of Little Miss Sweetclover?" says Peggs, holding it +up for Jackie to see.</p> + +<p>"I think she's very pretty," says Jackie, "only she needs legs." And +while Peggs cut out and sewed a uniform for the soldier, Jackie went +in search of legs for Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>And these he made of two stems of a flower, bent at the ends to look +like feet. And he ran back to Peggs with them.</p> + +<p>"Here are the legs for Sweetclover with green shoes and stockings on." +And he tied them to the rest of Sweetclover so that when she walked, +they wouldn't come off.</p> + +<p>By this time Peggs had finished the uniform for Jackie's soldier and a +hat of newspaper with a great plume of cornsilk and a lot of medals +which were cut from the gold leaf that comes on a card of buttons. And +when they were all sewed on the jacket, he cut out a sword from the +gold leaf and made hands and feet from the corn husk. And he colored +the eyes with black ink and the lips with red, and, much before you +could say "Crickety," the soldier was all finished.</p> + +<p>"What'll we call him?" asked Jackie.</p> + +<p>And they thought, and thought, and thought.</p> + +<p>"I have it!" said Jackie.</p> + +<p>"What?" asked Peggs.</p> + +<p>"We'll call him Kernel Cob," says Jackie.</p> + +<p>"Goodie!" says Peggs, clapping her hands with glee.</p> + +<p>And you will see what wonderful dolls they were, and what wonderful +things they did, and how they helped Jackie and Peggs to find ... but +never mind.</p> + +<p>You will see.</p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/13-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="Chapter I Footer" title="" /> +</p> + +<hr /> + + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/14-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="Chapter II Header" title="" /> +</p> + +<h2>CHAPTER II</h2> + +<p>And one day, when Jackie and Peggs were playing in the garden with +Kernel Cob and Sweetclover, the sun was very hot, so Peggs ran and got +a parasol and put it over the dolls so they wouldn't wilt.</p> + +<p>"I'd like Kernel Cob to be a great general," said Jackie as he put up +the parasol, "and fight in all the wars of the world and lead his +soldiers with a sword in his hand and get wounded and all that. Not +very much wounded, though. Or I'd like to have him be an Admiral and +sail all around the world. What do you think of that?"</p> + +<p>"That's good," said Peggs.</p> + +<p>"You bet," said Jackie. And he stood on his tippy toes to look bigger.</p> + +<p>"And I'd like Sweetclover to be a mother," says Peggs, "and have +hundreds and hundreds of children so she could give them all the dolls +that ever they wanted."</p> + +<p>"That would be noble," said Jackie.</p> + +<p>"It's terrible for children to have no father or mother isn't it?" +asked Peggs looking far off at nothing in the sky.</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Jackie.</p> + +<p>"I would rather have a mother and father than everything else in the +world," says Peggs.<a name="Page_11"></a></p> + +<p>"Better'n little Sweetclover?" asked Jackie.</p> + +<p>"Yes," answered Peggs, "for I could make another doll, but you can +only have one mother and one father."</p> + +<p>"Maybe you're right," said Jackie, "but I love Kernel Cob very much, +just the same."</p> + +<p>"Of course!" says Peggs.</p> + +<p>Now, all of this was heard by Kernel Cob and Sweetclover, for all +flowers and vegetables understand the language of people, but people +do not understand the language of flowers and vegetables; and when +Kernel Cob and Sweetclover talked, Jackie and Peggs couldn't hear them +because flowers whisper very softly, and even if the children could +hear them they couldn't understand them, you see, because it's a +different kind of language and they never had heard it.</p> + +<p>Sometimes, if you are a child, and sit in the garden when the wind is +blowing, and listen, you may hear a kind of whispering among the +flowers. And if you look very closely, you will see them sway toward +each other and smile and nod their heads. Well, that is when they +whisper in each other's ears just as if they were children.</p> + +<p>And all vegetables are like that too, only the corn has a louder +voice, because the wind loves to blow through its ears and make it +wave so it looks like a great green ocean.</p> + +<p>"Did we have a mother and father?" asked Peggs.</p> + +<p>"Of course!" answered Jackie, "Everybody has to have a mother and a +father, except orphans."</p> + +<p>"Are we orphans?" asked Peggs.</p> + +<p>"I guess we must be," said Jackie, "I heard Auntie tell somebody, the +other day, that both our parents were lost."</p> + +<p>Just then the wind blew Sweetclover toward Kernel Cob, and, if you'd +been there, you could have heard a whispering sound, and, if you'd +been a flower, you would have heard Sweetclover say to Kernel Cob:</p> + +<p>"Poor little Peggs!" and if you had looked very closely you would have +seen dew drops in her eyes.<a name="Page_12"></a></p> + +<p>"What did she do?" asked Kernel Cob, and his voice was slow, for you +must remember that it took him a long time to think, because his head +was heavy and so filled up with corn cob. But, like most people who +are slow, he was very determined, and once he made up his mind to do a +thing you might be sure he would do it, no matter what.</p> + +<p>"She lost her motheranfather," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Did Jackie lose his motheranfather too?" asked Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"Of course," answered Sweetclover. "Don't you know that Jackie and +Peggs are brother and sister?"</p> + +<p>"Sure," said Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"Well then," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"You didn't tell me," said Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"Tell you what?" asked Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"If Jackie lost his motheranfather," said Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"Jackie's motheranfather are the same as Peggs'," explained +Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Doesn't everybody have his own motheranfather?" asked Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"Not always," says Sweetclover. "Why?" asks Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"Please keep quiet," said Sweetclover, "I can't hear what they are +saying."</p> + +<p>"If our mother and father are lost," says Peggs, "why doesn't Auntie +try to find them?"</p> + +<p>"I wish she would," says Jackie.</p> + +<p>"Did you hear that?" says Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"What?" asked Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"That they would like to find their motheranfather," says Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Are they lost?" asks Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"Yes," says Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Who lost them?" asks Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"Hush!" says Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>For a long time nobody spoke and pretty soon a little breeze swayed +Kernel Cob over toward Sweetclover and he said:<a name="Page_13"></a></p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/17-fig-top.jpg" width="100%" alt="" title="" /> +</p> + + +<p>"Let's try to find Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather. Let us pray to +the fairies that something will come along to help us."</p> + +<p>"Good!" said Sweet clover, and they prayed and prayed and prayed.</p> + +<p>And just then a great wind came and raised the parasol from the +ground, and the hook of the handle caught in Kernel Cob's belt and +pulled him up with it and Sweetclover was just in time to catch hold +of him as he sailed away. And Jackie and Peggs sat upon the grass and +cried because they had lost their little dolls.</p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/17-fig-bottom.jpg" width="100%" alt="" title="" /> +</p> + + +<hr /> + + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/18-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="Chapter III Header" title="" /> +</p> + +<h2>CHAPTER III</h2> + + +<p>And the parasol went up and up in the sky all the afternoon, and, try +as he would, Kernel Cob could not get it to stop.</p> + +<p>"I wonder what the fairies are sending us up here for?" shouted Kernel +Cob.</p> + +<p>"Maybe they're in Heaven," said Sweetclover, and just then the parasol +went skimming through a beautiful white cloud, and the sun was dancing +on it, making it look like pink eiderdown.</p> + +<p>And soon they came out of the cloud and were in the blue sky again.</p> + +<p>And up and up they sailed. And the sun dipped down in the sea, and its +light went out, and the stars came out and began to peep through the +sky like little fire-flies, and the moon came up, too, to see what was +going on, and it grew bigger and bigger till it was nearly as big as +the old Earth.</p> + +<p>And then they came to the Moon and could see little people running +around the edge waving their hands excitedly, and they were all +dressed in silver clothing, and when Kernel Cob and Sweetclover were +landed the Moonpeople ran to them and wondered.</p> + +<p>And everything about them was silver. Churches and houses and rocks +and rivers and trees and everything.<a name="Page_15"></a></p> + +<p>And the Moonpeople ran ahead in great confusion to show them the way.</p> + +<p>And Kernel Cob formed them into line and put himself at the head of +the column, as a general does, and they marched in step and everything +until they came to the Palace of the King, which was of silver with +turrets and spires of diamonds, and glittered so you could scarcely +see.</p> + +<p>And the King and the Queen were sitting on thrones, and when the King +saw how Kernel Cob had formed his people in order, he was greatly +pleased and said to himself, "Here is a fine General. I will put him +at the head of all my armies."</p> + +<p>And Kernel Cobb and Sweetclover were invited to a great banquet, as +splendid as ever you could imagine.</p> + +<p>And when they were seated, Sweetclover saw some flowers on the banquet +table which were very beautiful, white with silver calyx, and they +were called Silverfloss, and Sweetclover whispered to Silverfloss:</p> + +<p>"Do you understand Earth talk?"</p> + +<p>"Ting-a-ling," answered Silverfloss, and it sounded like the tinkling +of a little silver bell.</p> + +<p>"What did she say?" asked Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"It must be Moonflower talk," said Sweetclover, and she looked about +and saw some Edelweiss and she was very glad and said: "Edelweiss, +Edelweiss, how came you here?"</p> + +<p>Now you must know the Edelweiss is a little white flower that grows +away up in the snow of the mountains of Switzerland.</p> + +<p>"One night I was blown up here in a great snow storm and I've been +here ever since," said Edelweiss.</p> + +<p>"Can you speak Moonflower talk?" asked Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Edelweiss.</p> + +<p>"Very well," said Kernel Cob, "we are trying to find Jackie and Peggs' +motheranfather and we came all the way from the Earth on a parasol to +do so. Maybe you can help us."</p> + +<p>"I would if I could," replied Edelweiss. "But I am afraid they are not +here. I've been here over four seasons and I've <a name="Page_16"></a>never seen a human +being, and even if they were here they couldn't live here because it's +too cold."</p> + +<p>"You bet it is," said Kernel Cob, and he shivered till the medals on +his coat rattled.</p> + +<p>"Maybe they could be here in some other part of the Moon!" said +Sweetclover. "Would you mind looking?"</p> + +<p>"I would be glad to look," said Edelweiss, for he was a very polite +little flower and had very pretty manners.</p> + +<p>And turning to Silverfloss he asked her if she had seen two +earth-people on the Moon.</p> + +<p>"Ting-a-ling," answered Silverfloss and you would have thought it was +two bells tinkling.</p> + +<p>"She says there never was a human being on the Moon," said Edelweiss.</p> + +<p>"Well if they are not here," said Kernel Cob, "we had better go before +we freeze to death," and his teeth chattered.</p> + +<p>"How'll we get off?" asked Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"I'll tell Silverfloss to weave you a strand of silver," and he turned +to Silverfloss and said some tinkling words to her.</p> + +<p>"She's doing it," he said. "It's a thread of silver so thin that it +can't be seen and yet it is so strong that it can easily bear your +weight."</p> + +<p>"But I can't climb all the way down," said Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"You won't have to," said Edelweiss. "All you have to do is to catch +hold of the end of the silver thread and hang on to it, and, as +Silverfloss weaves the thread it gets longer and longer, until you +have reached the Earth. You'd better start now, if you are going."</p> + +<p>So Kernel Cob wound the silver thread around his waist, and, lifting +Sweetclover, was ready to start. "Good-bye," said Kernel Cob. +"Good-bye," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Good-bye," said Edelweiss, "Hold on tight!"</p> + +<p>"All right," said Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"Thank you very much," cried Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>And down they went, Kernel Cob hanging to the silver thread and +Sweetclover snuggled close against his jacket.<a name="Page_17"></a></p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/21-fig.jpg" height="80%" alt="Chapter III Footer" title="" /> +</p> + + +<hr /> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/22-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="Chapter IV Header" title="" /> +</p> +<h2>CHAPTER IV</h2> + +<p>Kernel Cob and Sweetclover went down and down and down through the sky +from the Moon.</p> + +<p>And after they had gone down and down and down a long time Sweetclover +suddenly cried:</p> + +<p>"What's that?" and pointed below. "It's like a great ball turning +round and round."</p> + +<p>"It looks like another Moon with the lights out."</p> + +<p>"It's the Earth!" cried Sweetclover with delight, for she could now +see the tops of trees as the sun began to show his golden head above +the hills in the East. And little by little, as Kernel Cob and +Sweetclover neared the Earth, they could see rivers and lakes and +steeples and houses and after awhile, people and horses in the fields.</p> + +<p>And down, down, down they came, getting nearer and nearer and nearer +until they saw, beneath their very feet, a great tall house with sails +on it going round and round at a rapid rate, and, before you could +say, "Look out!" Kernel Cob was caught in one of the sails and dashed +to the ground.</p> + +<p>"Are you hurt?" asked Sweetclover sitting on the ground where she had +been thrown.</p> + +<p>"No," said Kernel Cob, for a soldier must bear pain without complaint +and pretend he isn't hurt even if he is.<a name="Page_19"></a></p> + +<p>And a number of people who were working in the fields ran out to see +what had happened, and you may be sure that they were surprised to see +these strange dolls. And they spoke a strange language which neither +Kernel Cob nor Sweetclover could make out.</p> + +<p>"I wonder where we are," said Sweetclover, "and who these people can +be?"</p> + +<p>"They're very funny," laughed Kernel Cob, "I never saw shoes like +those before. They look like boats."</p> + +<p>"They're made of wood," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>And just then a little Dutch girl—for you have guessed that they were +in Holland—came over and picked them up and carried them off into her +house.</p> + +<p>And little Antje, for that was her name, played with them all day, +and, when night was come, she put them to sleep in a chair before the +fireplace where it was nice and warm and cosy.</p> + +<p>And, in the middle of the night, a cricket came out on the hearth +stone and began to chirp.</p> + +<p>"Chirp, chirp, chirp," sang the cricket, and Kernel Cob woke up and +rubbed his eyes and listened.</p> + +<p>"Hello, Mister Cricket," shouted Kernel Cob peering over the side of +the chair.</p> + +<p>And the Cricket hopped over to where Kernel Cob was lying.</p> + +<p>"Who are you?" he chirped.</p> + +<p>"I'm Kernel Cob. And Sweetclover and I are looking for Jackie and +Peggs' motheranfather," said Kernel Cob, "Have you seen them?"</p> + +<p>"Never heard of them," chirped the Cricket. "What's their names?"</p> + +<p>"Just Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather; that's all."</p> + +<p>And just then Sweetclover woke up and sat on the side of the chair.</p> + +<p>"I'm sure that there isn't anybody by that name," chirped the Cricket, +"but I'll soon find out."</p> + +<p>"How?" asked Kernel Cob.<a name="Page_20"></a></p> + +<p>"I'll send a chirp to all the crickets in this house and garden, and +they'll send a chirp to all the crickets in the next house and garden, +and so on, and so on, and so on, all through this country, and in a +little while I'll be able to tell you if they're here or not."</p> + +<p>"How'll you ever get the message back?" asked Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"I'm the King of all the Crickets," chirped he, "and when I give an +order you may be assured that it will be obeyed," and he stretched +himself with so much pride that you could have heard his jacket +crackle.</p> + +<p>"I'm sure you are very kind," said Sweetclover, "and Kernel Cob and I +are very much obliged to you," and she said this so very sweetly and +so prettily that the Cricket lost no time in sending the message.</p> + +<p>"Crick-a-crick-a-crick," he chirped, and it sounded just like a +telegraph instrument. "Crick-a-crick-a-crick. There," he chirped, +"I've told them to make a search and we'll soon have an answer."</p> + +<p>And while they waited, the cricket told them of the strange country +they were in and all about the canals and the windmills and the +skating in the winter and the curious wooden shoes that the people +wore. And when he had done, Kernel Cob and Sweetclover told him about +Jackie and Peggs, their wonderful visit to the Moon, and how they came +down in the field and were picked up by little Antje.</p> + +<p>"Hush!" said Kernel Cob, "I hear the chirping of a Cricket," for his +ears were quicker to hear than either Sweetclover's or the Cricket's. +And sure enough you could now hear the chirping....</p> + +<p>"Crick-a-crick-a-crick," and the Cricket pricked up his ears and held +up a foot to warn them to keep silence.</p> + +<p>"I'm sorry to tell you," he said as the chirping stopped, "that they +are not here."</p> + +<p>"Too bad," said Sweetclover, and the dew began to come into her eyes.<a name="Page_21"></a></p> + +<p>"Come," chirped the Cricket. "We must be quick, for if little Antje +wakes up, you'll not get away so easily again," and they followed him +as he hopped toward the window, upon which he leaped and was soon +outside.</p> + +<p>Kernel Cob climbed upon a chair, lifted Sweetclover in his arms and +was soon outside, following quickly on the heels of the nimble Cricket +who led them down to the waterside, where they found an old wooden +shoe.</p> + +<p>Into this Kernel Cob lifted Sweetclover and, after he had put up a +stick to serve as a mast and had fastened a piece of cloth to it for a +sail, he shook hands with the Cricket and climbed in. The cricket gave +the shoe a push off with one of his feet and they were afloat on the +sea.</p> + +<p>"Good-bye and good luck," chirped the Cricket.</p> + +<p>"Good-bye and many thanks," shouted Kernel Cob and Sweetclover, and +soon they were far off for the wind was blowing very strong.</p> + +<p>Presently they were out of sight of the shore and the Cricket turned +upon his heel and hopped away.</p> + + +<h3>CRICKETS</h3> + +<p class="poem">The Cricket is the kind of chap<br /> +For whom I never cared a rap!<br /> +I always thought he hopped about<br /> +The fields, because he had the gout<br /> +And lost his crutches in the crops,<br /> +And that's the reason why he hops.<br /> +But now I'll have to change my mind<br /> +Because I see he's very kind,<br /> +For he who is a friend in need<br /> +Is quite the best of friends indeed.</p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/25-cricket.jpg" width="100%" alt="Crickets" title="" /> +</p> + + +<hr /> + + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/26-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="Chapter V Header" title="" /> +</p> + +<h2>CHAPTER V</h2> + + +<p>And Kernel Cob and Sweetclover sailed and sailed for many days and +nights.</p> + +<p>"I wonder where we are and if we shall ever be on land again," sighed +poor little Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Of course we will," answered Kernel Cob although he, too, was +doubtful, but being a soldier he had to keep his courage up and to +cheer Sweetclover. So he pretended that they were perfectly safe.</p> + +<p>And on they sailed and you couldn't see anything but water for miles +and miles, no matter where you looked.</p> + +<p>"What's that?" said Sweetclover, and she was so excited that she +nearly tipped over the boat.</p> + +<p>"I can't see anything but water and a little too much of that to suit +me," said Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"Don't you see something dark against the sky?" she asked.</p> + +<p>"No, I don't," said Kernel Cob, and he shaded his eyes with his hand +the way sailors do when they look for something at sea.</p> + +<p>"I hope it isn't a whale," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"It had better not be," said Kernel Cob, "if he knows what's good for +him," and he patted his sword in a very brave manner.<a name="Page_23"></a></p> + +<p>"It's getting bigger and bigger," said Sweetclover. "Don't you see +it?"</p> + +<p>"Sure!" said Kernel Cob, "I saw it all the time, it's a ship." And +like all people who tell fibs he was found out, for it wasn't a ship +at all.</p> + +<p>"It's land!" said Sweetclover, joyfully, and sure enough it was, for +soon you could see the trees. And as they sailed closer the trees grew +taller and taller, and after a while you could see the shore.</p> + +<p>"It's a little island," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"What's an island?" asked Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"Didn't you ever go to school?" asked Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"No, but I wish I had."</p> + +<p>But Kernel Cob didn't answer. He just steered the shoeboat toward the +shore by putting one leg over the side as if it were a rudder, and in +a little while they ran the boat up on the shore and Sweetclover +hopped out and Kernel Cob pulled the boat up on the beach so the tide, +when it came in, wouldn't take it out to sea again.</p> + +<p>And they walked along the beach.</p> + +<p>"I'm very hungry," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Sit down here," said Kernel Cob, "and I'll see if I can find +something for dinner." And he went along the beach.</p> + +<p>After he had walked a long distance, he found a tree with some nuts on +it, and he picked a lot of them and put them in his hat and started +back to Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>You may imagine his astonishment when he reached the spot where he had +left her and discovered that she was not there.</p> + +<p>But, all about on the sand, he saw foot-prints as of a great number of +bare footed people.</p> + +<p>"The savages have taken her," he muttered, and drawing his sword he +ran off in the direction they had taken.</p> + +<p>Through the woods he ran, and pretty soon he came to a clearing and +there was Sweetclover surrounded by about a <a name="Page_24"></a>thousand savages shouting +and dancing and waving spears above their heads. And Kernel Cob +grasped his sword firmly in his hand and ran at them, and, so fiercely +did he fight, that in a minute he had driven away about a hundred of +them. And he would have driven them all away, but his foot slipped +and, before he could get up again, he was overpowered and bound hand +and foot.</p> + +<p>And they brought him before their chief who was a great giant.</p> + +<p>And when it was night, the savages tied the two captives to trees and +went to sleep about a great fire. And in the middle of the night when +Kernel Cob was thinking of some way in which to make their escape, he +heard something stirring in the grass at his feet.</p> + +<p>"Who's that?" he whispered.</p> + +<p>"Tommy Hare," was the reply, and he ran out from a stone behind which +he had been hiding.</p> + +<p>"Good for you!" said Kernel Cob. "Come stand up on your hind legs, +like a good fellow, and untie me from this tree."</p> + +<p>"Who are you?" asked Tommy cautiously.</p> + +<p>"I'm Kernel Cob and this is my little friend Sweetclover and we're +looking for Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather and we've been captured +by the savages who may keep us here forever if you don't help us."</p> + +<p>"That I will," said Tommy, and in a jiffy he had gnawed them free.</p> + +<p>"Now, show us the way down to the beach as quickly as you can," said +Kernel Cob, "for it will be daylight soon and then it will be too +late. Come."</p> + +<p>And they started running as fast as they could.</p> + +<p>And not a minute too soon, for they had got only half way when they +heard the shouts of the savages and knew that their escape had been +discovered.</p> + +<p>Faster and faster they ran, but the savages gained on them at every +step and were soon close upon their heels.<a name="Page_25"></a></p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/29-fig.jpg" height="80%" alt="Picture of Savages" title="" /> +</p> + +<p>"Jump on my back!" shouted Tommy, "for I can run faster than all of +them put together."</p> + +<p>And they did so and flew over the ground as fast as the wind.</p> + +<p>And they reached the shore and jumped into the shoeboat and Tommy +shoved them off with a great push that put them out of sight of land, +and the savages' spears fell in the water behind them.</p> + +<p>"That was a narrow escape," said Sweetclover, as she settled down in +the boat. "I hope Tommy Hare wasn't caught by the savages."</p> + +<p>But she needn't have worried in the least about Tommy, for as soon as +he had pushed them off, he scurried away and was at that moment +sitting under a tree, eating his breakfast.</p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/30-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHAPTER V Footer" title="" /> +</p> + +<hr /> + + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/31-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHAPTER VI Header" title="" /> +</p> + +<h2>CHAPTER VI</h2> + + +<p>Kernel Cob and Sweetclover sailed all day. The shoeboat rode the waves +with perfect ease. Up it went and up till it came to the top of a +great wave, and then it would race down on the other side as if they +were bob-sledding and great sport it was, too, out in the middle of +the ocean, and Sweetclover laughed and even old serious Kernel Cob +smiled and forgot all about fighting.</p> + +<p>Toward the afternoon, the sea quieted down and they rode along faster +and presently, Sweetclover, who was always watching, cried out:</p> + +<p>"I see another island!"</p> + +<p>"So it is!" said Kernel Cob, looking in the wrong direction.</p> + +<p>"Not over there. Look!" and she pointed.</p> + +<p>Sure enough. There was a large black stretch of what appeared to be +land. And it was very flat.</p> + +<p>"I hope there will be no more savages to fight," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"I hope there will," said Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"It's moving," said Sweetclover. "It seems to be coming this way."</p> + +<p>"Where did it go?" asked Kernel Cob, for at that moment it disappeared +altogether.<a name="Page_28"></a></p> + +<p>"I'm sure I saw it," said Sweetclover. "Didn't you?"</p> + +<p>But Kernel Cob only frowned and looked serious.</p> + +<p>And, in a few minutes, they saw it again, but this time it was very +much nearer and bigger and the sun made it look very smooth.</p> + +<p>"It's a whale!" said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Who cares," said he, and drew his sword.</p> + +<p>And the turtle, for it was a turtle and not a whale at all, came +towards them and it was very large, nearly as big around as an acre. +And when it got very near to the boat, its head came up out of its +shell and the little shoe boat shook with the waves it made.</p> + +<p>And the turtle was just about to snap the boat in its mouth when +Kernel Cob swung his sword and with one mighty stroke cut off its +head.</p> + +<p>"Ha, ha!" cried Kernel Cob, but, receiving no reply from Sweetclover, +he looked about and found she had fainted.</p> + +<p>He found also that the boat was leaking badly from a crack in the side +made, no doubt, by the turtle.</p> + +<p>Quickly, he lifted Sweetclover and carried her aboard the back of the +turtle and laid her gently down, for the shoe was sinking and he was +no sooner out of it than it turned over on its side.</p> + +<p>"Not a minute too soon," muttered Kernel Cob, "and now to revive +Sweetclover." This he soon did and she opened her eyes and looked +about in wonder.</p> + +<p>"Where are we?" she asked.</p> + +<p>"On the old turtle's back," laughed Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"But we shall never get anywhere now, for we have no sail," said +Sweetclover. And she began to cry.</p> + +<p>"Crying never did anybody any good," said Kernel Cob, "I wish you +would stop."</p> + +<p>"I can't help it," said Sweetclover, "I'm miserable."</p> + +<p>"What's all this about?" said a strange voice, and looking about +quickly, they saw a sea-horse riding up to them.</p> + +<p>"I am very glad to see you," said Kernel Cob.<a name="Page_29"></a></p> + +<p>"You're just in time to give us a lift on our journey."</p> + +<p>"With pleasure," whinnied the sea-horse. "And where might you be +going?"</p> + +<p>"To find Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Well, leap on my back," said the Horse, "and I'll see that you get +there if it's in the water."</p> + +<p>So Kernel Cob got astride the horse and helped Sweetclover to mount +behind him.</p> + +<p>"Where are we?" asked Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"Cuba is right over there," said the sea-horse pointing with his ear.</p> + +<p>"Well, let's see if they are there, if you please," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Aye, aye, Miss," he said, and trotted away as nearly like a real +horse as he could.</p> + +<p>They had gone along for a couple of hours without mishap when a storm +came up. At first the sea-horse paid no attention to the storm, but +one great big clap of thunder rang out and a flash of lightning struck +so close it startled him.</p> + +<p>With a great leap, he started forward, his eyes bulging from his head, +and, with a stream of foam flung out from his mouth, he turned and +raced through the water at a terrific rate, Kernel Cob and Sweetclover +clinging to him with all their strength.</p> + +<p>"He's a runaway," shouted Kernel Cob and, sure enough, the horse was +mad and nothing could stop him. On and on they raced, but everything +must come to an end and along about the afternoon, they saw land in +the distance.</p> + +<p>Toward this he made at breakneck speed and with a final spurt dashed +into an inlet where many ships rode at anchor and a large city rose +against the sky.</p> + +<p>"Hurrah!" shouted Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>In and out among the ships the sea-horse ran, until, with a last gasp, +he flung himself forward and fell upon the surface of the water.<a name="Page_30"></a></p> + + + +<hr /> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/34-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHAPTER VII Header" title="" /> +</p> + +<h2>CHAPTER VII</h2> + +<p>When the sea-horse fell, Kernel Cob and Sweetclover were thrown over +his head and landed into the water, but Kernel Cob told Sweetclover +they would soon be picked up.</p> + +<p>And so they were, for a row-boat pulled toward them and in a minute +they were taken from the water and laid on the bottom of the boat.</p> + +<p>"What did I tell you?" said Kernel Cob. "If you wish for anything +strong enough you'll get it."</p> + +<p>"You'll wish you were never born before you get out of here," said a +deep, strange voice, and looking about, Kernel Cob and Sweetclover +were surprised to see two puppets, their own size.</p> + +<p>The one who spoke was a villainous-looking fellow dressed as a Pirate. +His face was browned as if by the sun, earrings were in his ears, a +black hat on his head, and a deep and very ugly scowl was painted on +his forehead.</p> + +<p>The other was good looking and resembled the hero in a story. He had +pink cheeks and a pretty smile.</p> + +<p>Now, when Sweetclover heard the villainous puppet speak, she moved +away from him but Kernel Cob, who always welcomed a new adventure and +saw in this fellow a possible enemy, spoke up:<a name="Page_31"></a></p> + +<p>"Who and what are you?"</p> + +<p>"A friend," answered the Villain.</p> + +<p>"You don't look it," said Sweetclover, "you look more like a villain."</p> + +<p>"And so I am," said he. "At least that's what I'm painted to be, but I +have a kind heart just the same."</p> + +<p>"What are you doing out here in this boat?" asked Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"The man who is rowing and who picked you up is a puppet showman," he +explained.</p> + +<p>"I don't like him a bit," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"You'll like him less and less as you get to know him," said the +Villain. "He's very brutal. That's why we are in the boat, for +yesterday during the puppet show, he broke the Hero in a rage and he +had to go across the harbor to a toy-shop to buy another. That's the +new Hero alongside of me."</p> + +<p>"He's very handsome," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Sure," said the Villain. "He's got to be. Heroes are all handsome."</p> + +<p>"But why are you so ugly?" asked Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"Ha, ha," laughed the Villain, "why bless your heart, I'm not a real +villain, I only play the part of a villain in the play. My real self +is something very different. But what, may I ask, are you doing out +here in the harbor of Valparaiso?"</p> + +<p>"Is that where we are?" asked Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Sure," said Kernel Cob, for he didn't want the Villain to think he +wasn't smart. "Didn't you know we were in Italy?"</p> + +<p>"Ha, ha," sneered the Hero, and from that moment Kernel Cob disliked +him.</p> + +<p>"But you haven't told me how you got into the water," persisted the +Villain.</p> + +<p>"We came on a sea-horse from Cuba," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"That must have been an exciting adventure," said the Villain. "Tell +me all of it."</p> + +<p>And Kernel Cob told him how they had been to the Moon <a name="Page_32"></a>on a parasol +and all that. When he had finished, he asked the Villain to tell them +some of his adventures.</p> + +<p>But the Villain was a modest sort of fellow and would say nothing but +that he was very unhappy, leading a wicked life. What annoyed him +most, he said, was that nearly everybody thought he was bad.</p> + +<p>"It only goes to show," he said, "that you can never go by anybody's +looks."</p> + +<p>"You're right," said Kernel Cob, and gave a sharp glance at the Hero. +"Many a kind heart beats beneath an ugly face."</p> + +<p>And then the row-boat landed at the dock, and the showman, taking the +Villain and the Hero under one arm and Kernel Cob and Sweetclover +under the other, got out and walked away.</p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/36-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHAPTER VII Footer" title="" /> +</p> + + + +<hr /> + + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/37-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHAPTER VIII Header" title="" /> +</p> + +<h2>CHAPTER VIII</h2> + + +<p>Through the town they went and everywhere children ran after them, and +wondered at the strange puppets. And after a while they came to a +little theatre and were thrown down among a lot of other puppets.</p> + +<p>"I don't intend to stay here," said Kernel Cob. "I'm going to run +away. I've got to find Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather."</p> + +<p>"I don't think you'll be able to get away," said the Villain.</p> + +<p>"Well, at least I'll try," answered Kernel Cob. "Wouldn't you like to +come with us?"</p> + +<p>"You bet," said the Villain, for he had taken a great fancy to Kernel +Cob and especially to Sweetclover, whose gentle manners appealed very +strongly to him. "But how are you going to do it?"</p> + +<p>"Let me think," said Kernel Cob and they were very quiet for a long +while.</p> + +<p>"I tell you what," said the Villain, "When I am going to play I'll run +off the stage and as soon as you see the Showman run after me, you +must be ready to run and before he catches me, you'll be safe away."</p> + +<p>"But you won't be able to come with us, then," said Sweetclover, "and +you'll be beaten."<a name="Page_34"></a></p> + +<p>"Well, as long as you and Kernel Cob get away, it won't matter what +happens to me," said the Villain.</p> + +<p>"That's very noble of you, I'm sure," said Kernel Cob, "and I see that +you are a very friendly Villain, but I think I can find a better plan +than that."</p> + +<p>While they were talking, the Showman came and tied some strings on +Kernel Cob and Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"What's that for?" asked Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"I guess you are going to play in the show," explained the Villain. +"That's the way he works us."</p> + +<p>"Now we will never be able to get away," sighed Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Won't we though," said Kernel Cob, "leave it to me," for he was very +brave of heart and nothing daunted him, because he was a soldier, you +see, and was brave by nature.</p> + +<p>And the Showman took them into the theatre, and the performance began. +When the play was over, quick as a flash, Kernel Cob cut the strings +from Sweetclover and himself.</p> + +<p>"Now is our time!" shouted he to Sweetclover and the Villain, who were +standing close by, and the Villain, catching Sweetclover by the hand, +ran away with her.</p> + +<p>Holding the Showman at a distance, Kernel Cob backed his way off the +stage, joined the Villain and Sweetclover and all three ran out into +the street at the top of their speed, but the Showman was much faster +and was close on their heels when they came to a corner.</p> + +<p>"Straight ahead!" shouted Kernel Cob while he turned and ran up the +other street. This puzzled the Showman just what Kernel Cob wanted, +and while he stood, wondering which one of them to follow, they gained +on him.</p> + +<p>Feeling angrier with Kernel Cob than with the Villain and Sweetclover, +he made after him, but Kernel Cob had a good start this time and had +turned another corner, and seeing an open doorway, leaped in and was +well-hidden by the time the Showman came puffing by.<a name="Page_35"></a></p> + +<p>For a long time the Showman searched, but never thought of the door +behind which Kernel Cob was hiding and finally gave up the search and +went back.</p> + +<p>After Kernel Cob had given him plenty of time to get away, he came out +cautiously and with great courage went back the way he had come, +anxious to find Sweetclover and the Villain.</p> + +<p>When he came to the corner where Sweetclover and the Villain had gone +straight ahead, he followed on after them, but could find no trace of +them. Night was coming on and still he walked and being very tired +with all his running, he sat down on the roadside, for he was now out +in the country. And the moon came out and he watched it and thought of +the many adventures he had been in since Sweetclover and he were up +there and a great longing came into his heart to see her and if he had +not been a soldier, I am sure he would have cried, but he didn't. +Instead, he got upon his feet and looked about for some place where he +could spend the night.</p> + +<p>This he soon found, for close at hand was a field in which some hay +had been stacked, and, careful not to arouse the dog, he crept under +one of the haystacks and soon was fast asleep.</p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/39-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHAPTER VIII Footer" title="" /> +</p> + + +<hr /> + + +<p><img src="images/40-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHAPTER IX Header" title="" /> +</p> + +<h2>CHAPTER IX</h2> + + +<p>The Villain and Sweetclover ran on and on till their legs would carry +them no farther and, being entirely out of breath, they came to a halt +at last. They were far out beyond the City, and, if they had not been +worried about Kernel Cob, they would have enjoyed the lovely fields of +flowers and sunshine, but Sweetclover was quite sure that the wicked +Showman had captured Kernel Cob and, having recovered her breath, sat +down and began to cry. And the Villain, being a very kind-hearted +puppet sat down to comfort her, but, try as he would, Sweetclover only +cried the louder.</p> + +<p>"I'm sure he's captured, I'm sure he's captured," she repeated over +and over again, until she made the Villain believe it and he began to +cry, too.</p> + +<p>"Here, this will never do," said the Villain, getting up. "I'll go +back and see if I can find him."</p> + +<p>"No, no!" cried Sweetclover. "You'll be caught too, and then what will +I do?" So he stayed with her.</p> + +<p>Presently they were aroused by the barking of a dog and, looking +about, discovered that they were sitting on the terrace of a big house +all about which were fields of flowers and grain. And the dog, a big +mastiff, came toward them. Sweetclover put out a friendly hand and +said, "Nice Fido."<a name="Page_37"></a></p> + +<p>"Don't call me Fido," said the dog, "my name is Napoleon."</p> + +<p>"Oh, excuse me," said Sweetclover, "I didn't know."</p> + +<p>"That's all right," said Napoleon with a stately bow. "Is there +anything I can do for you?"</p> + +<p>"I'm afraid not," said Sweetclover. "My friend here," and she turned +to the Villain, "and I have been separated from Kernel Cob and we are +anxious to find him. You didn't see him pass by, did you?"</p> + +<p>"No," said Napoleon, "that I didn't."</p> + +<p>"Oh dear," sighed Sweetclover, "night is coming on and we have nowhere +to go."</p> + +<p>"If you will give me a few minutes," said Napoleon, with a courteous +wave of his paw in the direction of his house, "I will put my humble +home at your disposal."</p> + +<p>"We cannot think of disturbing you," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"It will be no trouble whatever," he said. "If I can be of any service +to you, it will give me much pleasure."</p> + +<p>And so they followed him, as he walked away with great dignity, to his +kennel.</p> + +<p>"What, may I enquire, has brought you to this neighborhood?" he asked +as they arrived at his house.</p> + +<p>"You see," explained Sweetclover, "we were captured by a very wicked +Showman and made to act with him in his puppet-show, so we ran away."</p> + +<p>"Have you been long in Valparaiso?" he asked. And she told him her +story. How they had been to the moon in search of Jackie and Peggs' +motheranfather, and so on, till the moment when he had met them on the +road.</p> + +<p>"Very, very interesting, I am sure," he said, "and I wish I could help +you in finding Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather, but I think you must +be tired, so if you will lie down here I will sleep outside and +protect you from any danger."</p> + +<p>So Sweetclover and the Villain entered his house, which was very +nicely covered with straw and made a very comfortable place to sleep +in, and in a few minutes were fast asleep.<a name="Page_38"></a></p> + + +<hr /> + + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/42-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHAPTER X Header" title="" /> +</p> + +<h2>CHAPTER X</h2> + + +<p>In the morning, the sun was shining brightly and looking out of the +door of Napoleon's house they were overjoyed to see Kernel Cob walking +toward them, for the field in which he had slept was the one next to +where Napoleon lived.</p> + +<p>You may imagine their joy.</p> + +<p>After he had been introduced to Napoleon, they sat down to think what +had best be done.</p> + +<p>"I wish I could help you," said Napoleon, "but I am a watch dog and a +watch dog may never shirk his duty. I never leave these grounds, for I +love my master."</p> + +<p>"You have been very kind," said Sweetclover, "and I'm sure we are +grateful to you."</p> + +<p>"I'll tell you what I can do," said Napoleon, whose forehead wrinkled +as he thought, "I can introduce you to a great bird that lives in a +field back of me. She is the South American condor and I'm sure she +will be able to carry you somewhere."</p> + +<p>"All of us?" asked Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"Why, yes, indeed," replied Napoleon, "she is about ten times as big +as you and very strong."</p> + +<p>"Oh, goodie," said Sweetclover, "where is she?"</p> + +<p>"Over there," answered Napoleon. "Just say I sent you and she will do +anything for you."<a name="Page_39"></a></p> + +<p>So, after thanking Napoleon for his kindness, they walked in the +direction he had given them and soon came to a great haystack on the +top of which was a large nest.</p> + +<p>And Kernel Cob called up to the nest and the bird put out her head.</p> + +<p>Kernel Cob then introduced everybody and the bird flew down at once.</p> + +<p>"We are trying to find Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather," he +explained, and after he had told her their story, she was so +interested that she said she would help them as soon as she had +finished her breakfast.</p> + +<p>"Now," she said, "let us start. Where are the motheranfather of these +little children?"</p> + +<p>"I don't know," said Kernel Cob. "They're lost."</p> + +<p>"I don't know anything about motheranfathers," replied the bird, "but +I know when I lose anything it is because it falls out of my nest."</p> + +<p>"People don't live in nests," replied Kernel Cob. "For if they did, +and fell out, they would get broken."</p> + +<p>"I say!" said the Villain who had been thinking very deeply. "Let's +look for them near where they were lost."</p> + +<p>"That's a good way," said Sweetclover. "Let's go to the United States. +How far is it?"</p> + +<p>"Thousands of miles," answered the Condor. "But that is nothing for +me. I can fly that far in a few days. Come, get ready. We will go to +the United States. Jump on my back."</p> + +<p>So they climbed up on the bird's back, and all being ready she flew +away.</p> + +<p>"How does she know which way to fly?" asked Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Birds know everything in the air, just the same as fishes do in the +water," said the Villain.</p> + +<p>"And worms in the ground," added Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"I guess Dolls must be the stupidest things in the world," said +Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Only some of us," said Kernel Cob.<a name="Page_40"></a></p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/44-fig.jpg" height="80%" alt="Riding the Condor" title="" /> +</p> +<p>At this Sweetclover, the Villain and the Condor laughed, but Kernel +Cob didn't know what they were laughing at, which was a very good +thing for him.</p> + +<p>All that day they flew, and were very happy indeed in the warm +sunshine skimming through the clouds. And once they went through a +rainstorm and got wet; but as the sun came out soon after and dried +them quickly they were none the worse for their bath, but felt +refreshed for it.</p> + +<p>And they passed over the great Amazon river, the largest river in the +world, and, much before they knew it, they were in Central America +going at a tremendous rate of speed.</p> + +<p>"We shall be in the United States very soon, at this pace," said the +Villain.</p> + +<p>And on the Condor flew, swift as an arrow, but in the afternoon a +great wind storm came from the East and she was obliged to turn her +course in the direction of the wind, and late in the evening they were +nearing a large city which was now visible in the distance.</p> + +<p>"I wish I had wings," sighed Sweetclover, "and could fly all over the +world. It would be so wonderful."</p> + +<p>"We will rest to-night," said the bird, "and try to find the +motheranfather of Jackie and Peggs to-morrow."</p> + +<p>"You will be too tired," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Oh, no," said the Condor. "You can have no fear. I will be all right. +When I say I do something I do that. I never...."</p> + +<p>She did not finish what she was going to say, and maybe it was a +punishment for boasting. People are often punished for talking too +much about what they can do ... for just at that moment something +dreadful happened that changed their plans.<a name="Page_42"></a></p> + + +<hr /> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/46-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHAPTER XI Header" title="" /> +</p> + +<h2>CHAPTER XI</h2> + + +<p>And what do you think happened to the Condor?</p> + +<p>Just as they were coming to the city and the bird was looking back, +talking to Kernel Cob and the others, and everything looked so happy +and bright....</p> + +<p>"Look out!" shouted Kernel Cob, but it was too late. Straight ahead +was a tall tree, toward which the bird was flying, and from the +branches came a puff of smoke and the sharp crack of a gun.</p> + +<p>The next instant the Condor stopped flying, and slowly sank to the +ground.</p> + +<p>"I am done for," she said in a feeble voice. "It is just the way of +all birds. I am sorry that I cannot help you more. Good-bye."</p> + +<p>By this time she had reached the ground, and Kernel Cob was in a very +great rage. He wanted to stay and fight the hunter who would soon come +to take the bird, but Sweetclover and the Villain begged him to be +prudent and run away, lest they all be captured.</p> + +<p>So with great sorrow, they said good-bye to the Condor and hurried +away.</p> + +<p>From behind a rock, they watched the hunter take up the bird and carry +it away.<a name="Page_43"></a></p> + +<p>And our three little friends sat down upon a stone to think.</p> + +<p>"I don't know what to do," said Sweetclover. "We have lost our best +friend."</p> + +<p>"Never mind," said the Villain tenderly, and he put his hand kindly on +her shoulder. "It will all come right in the end. It always does, you +know."</p> + +<p>"Yes, I know," said Sweetclover, "but you have to go through such +terrible things first."</p> + +<p>"Well, we got along pretty well before we met the bird," said Kernel +Cob. "Didn't we get to the Moon and all that?"</p> + +<p>"That was because we prayed to the Fairies," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"And maybe if we pray now, something will happen to help us."</p> + +<p>Sweetclover had a very beautiful faith. She believed, as all good +people do, that you must put your faith in something good, and then +everything will be for the best, no matter what happens.</p> + +<p>So they knelt down by the side of the rock and prayed.</p> + +<p>"How do you pray?" whispered the Villain to Sweetclover. "I never +prayed before in my life."</p> + +<p>"Just say, 'Please good, kind Fairies, I am a poor little Villain, and +I need your help, and I'll never be bad any more.'"</p> + +<p>So they prayed, and pretty soon along came a team of horses drawing a +big wagon packed with boxes of oranges.</p> + +<p>And the wagon stopped on the road where they were, and the driver got +down to fix the harness of one of the horses.</p> + +<p>"I'm glad that buckle got loose," said the horse to his team-mate, "I +was getting tired and needed a rest."</p> + +<p>"Hello there, Master Horse," shouted Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"Who are you?" neighed the horse.</p> + +<p>"I'm Kernel Cob. Where are you going?"</p> + +<p>"We're going to the city to pack these oranges on a train," was the +reply.</p> + +<p>"Here's our chance!" cried Kernel Cob. "Come, let us hide in one of +these boxes, and we'll get a ride on the train."<a name="Page_44"></a></p> + +<p>"Good idea," said the Villain.</p> + +<p>So they waited till the man climbed up on his seat again, and shouted, +"get up" to the horses; then they ran out and got on one of the spokes +of the wheel when it was near the ground, and when the wheel turned +and the spoke came up to the top, they sprang off onto the wagon and +crawled into a box which is called a crate, and is open a little so +the oranges do not get too hot and spoil. And it was perfectly safe +and very comfortable.</p> + +<p>And they must have fallen asleep; for the next thing they knew they +felt a rocking and a rocking and Kernel Cob got out of the crate and +crawled along till he came to a stairway, and, climbing this, +discovered that they were on a ship.</p> + +<p>He hurried back to tell his news to Sweetclover and the Villain.</p> + +<p>And Sweetclover began to cry.</p> + +<p>"A woman is the crybabiest person in the world," said Kernel Cob.</p> + + +<h3>NOBLE DEEDS!</h3> + +<p class="poem">If you attempt a noble deed<br /> +You're almost certain to succeed,<br /> +So do not give up hope, but try,<br /> +However rough your path may lie,<br /> +To forge ahead with all your might<br /> +And everything will come out right.</p> + + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/48-noble.jpg" width="100%" alt="Noble Deeds" title="" /> +</p> + + + +<hr /> + + + +<h2>CHAPTER XII</h2> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/49-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHAPTER XII Header" title="" /> +</p> + +<p>For many days they sailed on the ship till they came to land. And men +came to unload the vessel, and their crate of oranges was carried up +on the dock and placed on a wagon, and they were driven off, not in +the least knowing what country they were in, nor where they were +going.</p> + +<p>And they peered out from the crate, and soon they heard the queerest +kind of talk they ever heard, and Kernel Cob, bolder than the others, +raised his head above an orange but quickly put it down again.</p> + +<p>"I know where we are," said the Villain who had been thinking. "We are +in Japan."</p> + +<p>"How do you know?" asked Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"I was here once with the Showman," said the Villain, "and I remember +the way the people talked."</p> + +<p>And, being pushed onto a wagon, they were driven outside the city.</p> + +<p>"We mustn't go too far," said Sweetclover, "or we'll never find Jackie +and Peggs' motheranfather. Let's get out before it's too late."</p> + +<p>So they climbed out of their hiding place, and jumped to the ground.</p> + +<p>They were not far from a house, and a curious kind of a house it was.<a name="Page_46"></a></p> + +<p>"It looks like the kind of house Jackie used to make with cards," said +Kernel Cob, and so intent were they, that they did not hear the +approach of a little girl until she stood beside them, and lifted +Sweetclover in her arms.</p> + +<p>Of course they did not understand what she said, but it must have been +something very beautiful, for her face was all smiles.</p> + +<p>And the little Japanese girl lifted up Kernel Cob, and the Villain, +too, and carried them off down the road and into the little house.</p> + +<p>A very wonderful house it was, and full of toys, mostly Japanese dolls +with short, straight hair and beautiful dresses, and talking all at +once, in a curious language.</p> + +<p>"Oh, dear," sighed Sweetclover, "shall we never understand anybody in +this strange country?"</p> + +<p>"Aye, aye sir," came a voice at her feet, and looking down, much to +her surprise she saw an American Sailor doll.</p> + +<p>"Bless my heart, mates," said the sailor, "I'm glad to see you aboard. +I've been in this port these four months, and I haven't heard the +sound of the American language in all that time. Shiver my timbers if +I'm not glad to set eyes on you."</p> + +<p>And they talked it all over, where they'd been and everything, all +about the Condor and the savages and the Moon.</p> + +<p>"Well, mates," said Jackie Tar, for that was his name, "you've seen a +lot but you'll never do any more travelling, for you're in a pretty +tight hole this time," and he went on to tell them about the Japanese +who lived in the house and owned the store.</p> + +<p>"He's a Toy-maker, he is, and the first thing he'll do is to rip you +up to see how you're laid together, so he can make more like you."</p> + +<p>"Mercy!" said Sweetclover, and she began to sob.</p> + +<p>"If you're going to begin to cry," said Kernel Cob, "I'm going to give +up," but the Villain whispered something kindly in Sweetclover's ear, +and she stopped at once, for the Villain had more patience, and knew +how to comfort her.<a name="Page_47"></a></p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/51-fig.jpg" height="80%" alt="Japanese Girl With Dolls" title="" /> +</p> + +<p>"Maybe I can help you to escape from here," said Jackie Tar, "and +maybe I can't, but I can try. I've had a plan in my mind for a long +time but I've had no one to help me but these Japs, and they're not +worth the paint on their faces. Are you brave enough to risk it with +me?"</p> + +<p>Kernel Cob swelled out his chest and showed his medals, and told +Jackie Tar how he had fought the savages single handed.</p> + +<p>"You'll do," laughed the sailor, and he told them his plan. "Do you +see that red box over there in the corner?</p> + +<p>"Well, that's a Japanese kite. It goes up into the air very quickly. +What I say to do is to climb into the kite, and go up with it. It's a +big one and will carry us all."</p> + +<p>"Where'll we go to?" asked the Villain.</p> + +<p>"What care we, as long as we get out of here," and he hitched his +trousers as real sailors do.</p> + +<p>"Will you do it?"</p> + +<p>"You bet," said Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>So it was agreed that they would go up in the kite, and they moved +over to it and tugged at it till they had it in the center of the +room. Then a great clatter of talk arose from all the Japanese dolls, +which sounded like a lot of chickens calling for their dinner; but +Kernel Cob and Jackie Tar and the Villain and Sweetclover paid no heed +to them, but only tugged the harder till they had the kite out into +the middle of the road.</p> + +<p>"There are just four of us," said Jackie Tar. "Each man tar to a +corner. Quick! All aboard," and it was all they could do to hold down +the kite.</p> + +<p>"Stand by to get the ship under way. Up anchor. Heave ho, lads. Heave +ho."</p> + +<p>But at that moment....<a name="Page_49"></a></p> + + + +<hr /> + + + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/53-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHPATER XIII Header" title="" /> +</p> + +<h2>CHAPTER XIII</h2> + +<p>The little Japanese girl returned, pulling her father down the road.</p> + +<p>The little old man was waving his arms about fiercely and shouting, +"Zaca sakasaka," and before the kite had risen from the ground he had +reached it, and the next moment Kernel Cob, Sweetclover, the Villain +and Jackie Tar were being carried into the toy-shop.</p> + +<p>"Did you ever see such luck in all your life?" grumbled Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"I might have known it was Friday," said Jackie Tar, for sailors are +very superstitious.</p> + +<p>"Never mind," said the Villain, "we'll get away another day."</p> + +<p>"Oh, let us hope so," said Sweetclover, "for I don't want to be ripped +apart by that bad Japanese."</p> + +<p>"Well, that's what the toy-maker will do if you don't escape him," +said Jackie Tar, and his eyes would have bulged if they had been real +ones instead of just painted.</p> + +<p>"Why doesn't he rip you apart?" asked Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"Because I'm made of wood. I haven't got any stuffings," said Jackie +Tar.</p> + +<p>By this time the four had been laid upon the floor, and the Japanese +dolls had started a great clatter of talk. The little <a name="Page_50"></a>girl picked up +Sweetclover and was smoothing out her ruffled dress when the Toy-maker +took up a pair of scissors and grabbed up Kernel Cob, before he could +draw his sword.</p> + +<p>But at that moment the Fairies must have heard Sweetclover's prayer, +for I am sure she must have uttered one when her beloved Kernel Cob +was so near to being cut apart.</p> + +<p>The door opened, and in walked a man, a woman, and a little girl. And +they were Americans, too, for the first thing Sweetclover heard was +the little girl saying:</p> + +<p>"Mother dear, I do so want a dollie."</p> + +<p>"Dorothy wants a doll, John," said the little girl's mother.</p> + +<p>"Very well," said John, and turning to the Toy-maker said:</p> + +<p>"You sell doll?"</p> + +<p>"Me sell him very plenty doll," answered the Toy-maker.</p> + +<p>"How much for this one?" asked the man, picking up a little Japanese +doll.</p> + +<p>But the little girl had seen Kernel Cob in the Toy-maker's hand, and +clapping her hands joyfully said:</p> + +<p>"Oh, Dad, may I have this one? I think he's so cunning."</p> + +<p>"How much?" asked Dorothy's father.</p> + +<p>"Him cost two yen."</p> + +<p>"Let's see, that's one dollar."</p> + +<p>"All right," and he took Kernel Cob, and gave the money to the +Toy-maker.</p> + +<p>Now you may be sure that Sweetclover's heart fell, when she heard +this, and thought of being separated from Kernel Cob, and I am quite +sure that she prayed very hard to the Fairies; for at that moment the +little Japanese girl dropped her, and this caused Dorothy to see what +had fallen, and, when she saw Sweetclover, she ran and picked her up.</p> + +<p>"Oh!" she cried with pleasure. "Isn't she lovely. May I have her too?"</p> + +<p>"Why, I suppose so," said her father. "If she doesn't cost too much."<a name="Page_51"></a></p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/55-fig.jpg" height="80%" alt="Japnaese Man with Scissors" title="" /> +</p> + +<p>"Him allee same cost like soldier doll," explained the Toy-maker.</p> + +<p>"Very well," said Dorothy's father, "we'll take him too," and he gave +the Toy-maker the money.</p> + +<p>Sweetclover's heart was beating high with happiness; but suddenly +there came into her mind the thought of leaving the Villain; her good, +thoughtful friend, who had so often consoled her in her troubles, and +her heart fell again. Oh, if she could only talk to little Dorothy and +beg her to take the Villain and Jackie Tar; but this she could not do +so she prayed to the Fairies instead and at once her prayer was heard; +for the Toy-maker, who had a very good business head on his shoulders, +ran to the door as Dorothy and her parents were going out and called +to them:</p> + +<p>"Little girl want nice Pirate and Sailor feller? Allee same price like +other doll."</p> + +<p>And Dorothy's father, being a very kind father indeed, and just the +right kind of father for every little girl to have, bought them and +Dorothy went down the road with the four dolls under her arms.</p> + +<p>And you may be sure that Sweetclover was happy, for they had not only +escaped being ripped apart, but were all together, safe and sound.</p> + +<p>And Dorothy and her parents went to their hotel in the city, and +Dorothy played with her new dolls till her mother came to her and +said:</p> + +<p>"Dorothy, dear, we must pack our things for we are going to China this +afternoon."</p> + +<p>But a great misfortune happened, for when Dorothy's parents arrived in +China they were in a great hurry to leave the dock, where the boat +landed, and Dorothy, who had fallen asleep, forgot her dolls, and left +them on a bench in the waiting room, and before Kernel Cob or Jackie +Tar or the Villain or Sweetclover could catch up to her, she had been +lifted into her mother's arms and had disappeared in the crowd.<a name="Page_53"></a></p> + + + + +<hr /> + + + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/57-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHAPTER XIV Header" title="" /> +</p> + +<h2>CHAPTER XIV</h2> + +<p>"Well," said Jackie Tar, "Here we are in China." "I don't see any cups +and saucers," said Kernel Cob, looking about the streets. "All I can +see is a lot of women with hair hanging down their backs."</p> + +<p>"Those are men—Chinamen," explained Jackie Tar, for sailors travel +all about and know pretty nearly everything about the people of the +world.</p> + +<p>"Well, if they are men," said Kernel Cob, "they ought to have their +hair cut, and look like men. And if Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather +look like these Chinamen, I don't want to find them at all, for I +think a child is better off <i>without</i> parents than having two +mothers."</p> + +<p>"I wish we had never come here at all," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Never mind," said the Villain, "we will find a way to get out of +here."</p> + +<p>"Leave it to me," said Jackie Tar. "I've been about this old world +enough to know how to manage things."</p> + +<p>But much as he had been about, he didn't count on the things that +happen when you least expect them, for just at that moment, and +without any warning, they were picked up by a little Chinese boy who +carried them home.</p> + +<p>"This must be the thirteenth of the month," said Jackie Tar, for you +know that people think that the number thirteen brings bad luck.<a name="Page_54"></a></p> + +<p>But it wasn't the thirteenth as you will presently see, for it was a +very lucky day indeed for our little friends.</p> + +<p>And they were played with by the little Chinese boy, and, when it came +time to go to bed, he took the little dolls with him and for once they +were fed a very enjoyable supper of rice and milk, a food which Jackie +Tar and the Villain liked, but Kernel Cob said it needed raisins and +more sugar, so it might be a rice pudding, and after that they were +properly put to bed under nice warm covers, but they did not sleep, +you may be sure, but lay awake waiting for the little boy to fall +asleep so that they might make their escape.</p> + +<p>At last the moment arrived, and silently and cautiously they crept +from under the covers, and once the Villain stumbled in climbing over +the side of the crib, which wakened the little boy, but he must have +been very tired for he went to sleep at once without thinking of his +dolls.</p> + +<p>They hurried away in the direction of the water, which Jackie Tar said +he knew, for, said he, "A sailor can always smell the salt sea air, no +matter how far away he may be."</p> + +<p>And sure enough, in a few moments they arrived at the water's edge.</p> + +<p>"Now that we are here," said Kernel Cob, "what's to be done?"</p> + +<p>"All in good time, Kernel," said Jackie Tar, "Each man to his trade," +and he began to look about.</p> + +<p>"Gather all the sticks you see and bring them to me," said he, and +they brought him pieces of wood, large and small, and he chose the +largest, and having torn the lining of his jacket into strips, he +spliced them into a rope and with this he tied the wood together until +he had made a very good raft indeed.</p> + +<p>And he set the biggest stick of all, which was a bamboo pole, into the +raft and tying his jacket with one sleeve at the top, and the other at +the bottom of the pole, he had a good sail made in a jiffy.<a name="Page_55"></a></p> + +<p>"All aboard," he sang out and they got upon the raft and sat +"forward," as he told them, and grasping the tail of his coat in one +hand, and the rudder with the other, for he had tied a flat board at +the stern of the raft, they set sail.</p> + +<p>"Where away?" he asked.</p> + +<p>"I don't care," said Kernel Cob, "as long as we get away from this +China place, for I don't like any place that isn't what it says it +is."</p> + +<p>"Aye, aye, sir," said Jackie Tar. "If you take my advice, we'll steer +for India."</p> + +<p>"Why?" asked the Villain.</p> + +<p>"Because," said Jackie Tar, "from India there is always a ship bound +for England and, once in England, we can easily get a ship for +America."</p> + +<p>"Goodie!" said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>And so Jackie Tar steered the raft in the direction of India, and they +sailed with a good wind.</p> + +<p>"I thought you said it was the thirteenth of the month?" said the +Villain.</p> + +<p>"I must have made a mistake," said Jackie Tar, "for I never had a +better ship in all the years I've sailed the seas."</p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/59-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHAPTER XIV Footer" title="" /> +</p> + + +<h3>SAILORS</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><p>When I am grown to be a man<br /> +I'll be a sailor if I can;<br /> +For sailors, everywhere they roam<br /> +Are sure to find a welcome home.</p></div> + +<div class="stanza"><p>They sail upon the many seas<br /> +We learn of in Geographies,<br /> +And steer their ship by sun and star<br /> +From Vera Cruz to Zanzibar.</p></div> + +<div class="stanza"><p>They visit Chili and Japan,<br /> +And Guyaquil and Yucatan,<br /> +And they have friends in Martinique<br /> +And relatives in Mozambique.</p></div> + +<div class="stanza"><p>And all about the world they sail<br /> +In wind and storm and mighty gale,<br /> +So they can tell the tales they do<br /> +That children love to listen to.</p></div> + +<div class="stanza"><p>And so when I am grown a man<br /> +I'll be a sailor, if I can,<br /> +And sail upon the many seas<br /> +We learn of in Geographies.<a name="Page_57"></a></p></div> +</div> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/60-sailor.jpg" height="80%" alt="Sailor Poem" title="" /> +</p> + + + +<hr /> + + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/61-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHAPTER XV Header" title="" /> +</p> + +<h2>CHAPTER XV</h2> + + +<p>And under the skillful command of Jackie Tar, they reached India.</p> + +<p>"We'd better land at night," said Jackie Tar, "so we won't be bothered +with a lot of people watching us."</p> + +<p>So they waited until it was dark.</p> + +<p>"I've been thinking," said Jackie Tar. "Once when I was here before, I +saw some magicians who did wonderful tricks. They are called Hindus. A +Hindu is an Indian."</p> + +<p>"Oh, I know," said Kernel Cob, "he's got red skin and wears feathers +in his hair."</p> + +<p>"No!" said Jackie Tar. "That's an American Indian; but these Hindus +are born in India where we are now."</p> + +<p>"Tell us about the tricks," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Well," said Jackie Tar, "there isn't a trick which they can't do. +Once I saw them make a little boy run up a long pole and when he came +to the top he disappeared."</p> + +<p>"You mean to say they can do that?" asked the Villain.</p> + +<p>"They sure can," answered Jackie Tar. "And my idea is this: If they +can do that, maybe they can show you where Jackie and Peggs' +motheranfather are."</p> + +<p>"What makes you so smart, Jackie Tar?" asked the Villain.<a name="Page_58"></a></p> + +<p>"I don't know," said he, "I guess I was just born that way."</p> + +<p>"Well, let's go ashore and ask one of them to help us," said Kernel +Cob.</p> + +<p>"Aye, aye, mates," said Jackie Tar.</p> + +<p>So they went ashore, and walked along the streets until they came to a +little house that Jackie Tar said he remembered as being the house +where a magician lived.</p> + +<p>And they knocked upon the door and it opened. And they went inside and +all was quiet and black as night. And they groped their way till they +heard a low mumbling sound, and, pulling aside a curtain, they saw an +old man with a long white beard, sitting in a room with black +furniture and curtains.</p> + +<p>And he said something to them in a very strange language which they +couldn't understand.</p> + +<p>And Jackie Tar stepped forward and said:</p> + +<p>"Please, kind magician, we have come to find the motheranfather of +Jackie and Peggs. Will you be good enough to help us?" And even as he +was speaking a great cloud spread through the room and floated toward +the ceiling. In a minute the cloud became thinner, so you could see +through it, and at once trees and a house were seen.</p> + +<p>"It's Jackie and Peggs' garden," said Sweetclover in a breathless +whisper. "Look!"</p> + +<p>And sure enough there was the garden just as they left it, and Jackie +and Peggs were playing with Kernel Cob and Sweetclover just as they +did on that day they were blown away by the storm.</p> + +<p>"It's us! It's us!" cried Sweetclover, and as she spoke Peggs came and +put the parasol over them and the storm arose that carried them away +toward the sky. Then the cloud disappeared, and the vision was gone.</p> + +<p>"It's the strangest thing I ever saw," and Kernel Cob rubbed his eyes +and pinched himself, but he had to admit that he had not been asleep +and dreamed it.<a name="Page_59"></a></p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/63-fig.jpg" height="80%" alt="The Magician" title="" /> +</p> + +<p>And the Magician led them into another room through a black curtain, +and this new room was blacker than the first one, and they held hands +so they wouldn't become separated.</p> + +<p>In the middle of the room was a great crystal globe which stood upon a +low table, and the Magician went to it, and, waving his hand above it, +said something which sounded like "Alla ballaboo." And at once the +globe began to glow as though there were a fire inside of it.</p> + +<p>Then the light began to fade until the globe looked like a ball of +milk.</p> + +<p>Again the Magician waved his hand above it and a picture began to show +itself upon its surface, like when you develop a photograph plate in a +dark room.</p> + +<p>First the trees, and then a little hut and snow, lots and lots of +snow, and then a man with a shovel and a pick on his shoulder, and +then a woman and they were roughly dressed.</p> + +<p>And the man in the picture began to pick the ground, and the woman +took the shovel, and they worked and worked. Presently, the man +stooped down and picked up what seemed to be a stone, and he showed it +eagerly to the woman and she trembled with excitement and the stone +glowed.</p> + +<p>"It must be gold," said Jackie Tar.</p> + +<p>"They're gold miners."</p> + +<p>"But who are they?"</p> + +<p>"I've got it!" cried Kernel Cob. "They're Jackie and Peggs' +motheranfather," and he danced with joy.</p> + +<p>But in his excitement he made a great mistake, for in hopping about he +bumped into the crystal ball, and knocked it from the little table on +which it stood.</p> + +<p>The Magician rushed to save the globe from falling, but he was too +late.</p> + +<p>It came to the floor and crashed into a thousand pieces.</p> + +<p>When he saw what was done and who had done it, he turned on Kernel +Cob, and it was with great difficulty that Kernel Cob got out of his +way.<a name="Page_61"></a></p> + +<p>Out into the street ran Kernel Cob, followed by Sweetclover, the +Villain and Jackie Tar, the Magician in hot pursuit, and only that he +was a very old man he would have caught them.</p> + +<p>But he didn't, thank goodness! and at last they arrived at the raft.</p> + +<p>"Well," said Jackie Tar, when they were safely seated, "one thing we +know, anyway, and that is that Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather are +living somewhere in the snow, and if it hadn't been for Kernel +Cob...."</p> + +<p>But he didn't finish what he was going to say, for, looking at Kernel +Cob, he discovered him doing something that he had never done +before—CRYING!</p> + +<p>Sweetclover ran to him.</p> + +<p>"Oh, Kernel Cob!" she cried, "what is it. Are you hurt?"</p> + +<p>"Oh," he sobbed, "if it weren't for me, maybe we would have found out +all about Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather, and maybe the Magician +would have showed us how to get there," and he cried as if his heart +would break.</p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/65-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHAPTER XV Footer" title="" /> +<a name="Page_62"></a></p> + + + + +<hr /> + + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/66-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHAPTER XVI Header" title="" /> +</p> + +<h2>CHAPTER XVI</h2> + + +<p>And they sat upon the raft and talked it all over, what was to be +done, and how they were to do it.</p> + +<p>"Well," said Jackie Tar, "the nearest gold mines to us are in Africa."</p> + +<p>"Have they got snow around them?" asked Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Why, no, that's so," said Jackie Tar.</p> + +<p>"Where else?" asked the Villain.</p> + +<p>"We can go down to the South Pole," said Jackie Tar. At which Kernel +Cob began to laugh.</p> + +<p>"You don't expect to find any snow at the South Pole, do you?" he +asked.</p> + +<p>"Why not?" said Jackie Tar.</p> + +<p>"It'll be too hot," answered Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>And it took about half an hour to explain to him how it got colder the +farther south you went, after you crossed the equator.</p> + +<p>So they set sail for the South Pole.</p> + +<p>And after they had sailed for a couple of days and nights, there +suddenly arose a great hurricane.</p> + +<p>The wind raged and their tiny raft was blown clear out of the water.<a name="Page_63"></a></p> + +<p>"I hope I may never have to go to sea again," said the Villain. "And I +wouldn't much care, if I fell into the water and were drowned."</p> + +<p>But he clung to the mast just the same, for everybody loves to live no +matter how miserable they may be, because they always hope that things +will be better.</p> + +<p>Soon a bit of land was seen, and you may be sure that when they saw +that there was a great shout of joy, especially from the Villain.</p> + +<p>Toward this they steered and in a little while Jackie Tar, who had +been watching very closely, cried out that it was Venice.</p> + +<p>And they sailed toward Venice, which, as you know, is a city in Italy, +and is built on a number of little islands and the streets are nearly +all of water.</p> + +<p>"I think it is silly to go on," said Sweetclover, "for we know that +Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather are not here, but somewhere in the +mines."</p> + +<p>"That's so," said Kernel Cob, "Let's turn 'round and sail for the +South Pole again."</p> + +<p>"Please don't," said the Villain, "I couldn't stand it. Isn't there +some way that we can get to the South Pole by walking?"</p> + +<p>"Not that I know of," said Jackie Tar, "unless you were a crab and +crawled along the bottom of the ocean."</p> + +<p>"Very well," said the Villain. "I'll try not to complain."</p> + +<p>"Cheer up," said Kernel Cob, "all our troubles are over," and so he +thought, for the sea wasn't any rougher than the water in a bath tub.</p> + +<p>But often when you think there isn't anything going to happen, that's +just the time when it does.</p> + +<p>You see the raft had been blown about a great deal, so it wasn't very +strange that the pieces of wood had come apart here and there.</p> + +<p>The first they knew of their danger, the piece of wood that +Sweetclover had been sitting on broke loose from the <a name="Page_64"></a>rest of the raft +and began to float away and Kernel Cob jumped into the water to save +her.</p> + +<p>He caught the piece of wood with so much strength that he toppled +Sweetclover over into the water, and then he lost his head, I mean not +really his head, you know, but only that he got excited and let go of +the stick.</p> + +<p>The Villain, who couldn't swim at all, jumped in after them and all he +did was to make matters worse.</p> + +<p>Jackie Tar tried to tell them what to do, but they were too startled +to pay any attention to him. So in he plunged and swam to them, for he +was a very good swimmer.</p> + +<p>When he reached them they were all floundering about, so he dived down +and came up in the midst of them.</p> + +<p>"Put your hands gently on my shoulders," he ordered, "and don't weigh +down or you will push me under."</p> + +<p>And when they had done this he looked about, but the raft was nowhere +to be seen except for a few pieces of wood drifting about.</p> + +<p>They were about a mile from shore, which is a pretty good swim for one +man alone, but here he was with three others who couldn't swim one +stroke.</p> + +<p>But Jackie Tar was a brave sailor. Besides, he thought, "Here is a +chance for me to show Kernel Cob that he is not the only brave person +in the world."</p> + +<p>"Pull off your coat," he shouted to the Villain, and the Villain +pulled it off.</p> + +<p>"Now tie one of the sleeves about my foot," he cried, and it was done. +"Now each of you catch hold of the jacket and hang on for dear life +and I'll see if I can pull you to shore."</p> + +<p>So he started swimming, and little by little he neared the land, +swimming with a strong stroke until he brought them safely to the +beach.</p> + +<p>You may think he was tired, but not so, for when they got up on their +feet, and walked ashore, he simply knocked his heels together and +danced a hornpipe and sang:</p> + +<p>"A sailor's life's the life for me."<a name="Page_65"></a></p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/69-fig.jpg" height="80%" alt="CHAPTER XVI Footer" title="" /> +</p> + + + +<hr /> + + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/70-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHAPTER XVII Header" title="" /> +</p> + +<h2>CHAPTER XVII</h2> + + +<p>And they sat upon the shore until Jackie Tar had finished his song +about the Sailor's Life, and by that time their clothing was pretty +well dried out from their swim, so they got up and wandered toward the +city and it wasn't an easy thing to do, for they had a lot of bridges +to cross and they had no boat.</p> + +<p>"I think the best thing to do," said the Villain, "is to find a +toy-store, for there some doll can tell us what to do."</p> + +<p>So they kept an eye out for a toy-store, and pretty soon they found +one.</p> + +<p>"I'd better go in alone," said Kernel Cob, "because I'm the bravest +and have a sword and can fight if any trouble arises."</p> + +<p>"Aye, aye, skipper," said Jackie Tar.</p> + +<p>So Kernel Cob crept very carefully into the shop and very lucky he did +so, for the shopkeeper was there although he was asleep.</p> + +<p>On a shelf stood a row of soldiers.</p> + +<p>And Kernel Cob saluted them and said, "I am Kernel Cob of the United +States Army," at which the soldiers gave him three cheers.</p> + +<p>"My friends and I," said Kernel Cob, "are looking for <a name="Page_67"></a>the South Pole, +where we hope to find Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather, and I thought +maybe you could help us."</p> + +<p>But not one of them answered him for they didn't know what he had +said.</p> + +<p>"I guess tin soldiers are deaf," said he.</p> + +<p>"No, they're not," said a voice behind him, "only these are Italians +and do not understand English."</p> + +<p>And looking behind him, Kernel Cob discovered an English clown doll +who turned a somersault and came up on his feet with a merry laugh.</p> + +<p>"Good for you," said Kernel Cob, "I wish I could do that."</p> + +<p>"Everybody to his trade," said the clown, and stood upon his head.</p> + +<p>"Maybe you'd be good enough to stay upon your feet till I find out +what I want to know," said Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>And the Clown sprang into the air, turned over three or four times, +and landed neatly upon his feet again.</p> + +<p>"What is it you want to know?" he asked.</p> + +<p>"First I want to know why you don't keep still?" asked Kernel Cob, for +the Clown's antics made him nervous.</p> + +<p>"I'm a Circus Clown," said he, "and I just turn these hand-springs all +day."</p> + +<p>So Kernel Cob looked about the store, but could see nobody else that +looked as if he could talk English.</p> + +<p>"What do you do all day without anybody to talk to?" he asked the +Clown at length.</p> + +<p>"Oh," said the Clown, "I tell myself funny stories to make me laugh, +and then I have my hand-springs to make; that keeps me pretty busy," +and he rolled along the shelf, head over heels.</p> + +<p>"Well, I always thought a Clown was a silly fellow," said Kernel Cob, +"but now I'm sure of it," and he turned upon his heel and walked out +of the store.</p> + +<p>When he got outside he told the others that it was no use trying to +find out anything that way. So they walked <a name="Page_68"></a>along till night came and +they crawled into a boat, which is called a gondola, and wait to +sleep.</p> + +<p>During the night, they were wakened by the movement of the boat, and +looking out they saw that they were in motion. A man in a white suit +and a red sash was paddling the gondola with a long oar, and he was +singing a very beautiful song, and the moonlight was on the water. And +they passed many other gondolas, and all the men who paddled were +singing beautiful songs.</p> + +<p>"I would like to live here," whispered the Villain, "everybody seems +to be so happy."</p> + +<p>"So would I," said Sweetclover. "I love to hear beautiful music, but +we have to find Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather."</p> + +<p>And being tired, they fell asleep and early in the morning their +gondola was resting at the side of some marble steps which led up to a +great square called Saint Mark's. So they got out of the gondola and +walked across the square, for there wasn't anybody to be seen at so +early an hour in the morning.</p> + +<p>And a great number of pigeons were flying about. Thousands and +thousands of them.</p> + +<p>And Jackie Tar had a wonderful idea.</p> + +<p>"Let's ask the pigeons if they will help us."</p> + +<p>"Goodie!" said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>So they went up to a group of pigeons which were strutting along the +ground, picking grain which the people throw to them in the day time.</p> + +<p>"Hello! hello!" said Jackie Tar, and in a minute about a hundred +pigeons gathered about them. And he said he wanted some of them to +help him get to the South Pole.</p> + +<p>"I'll do it," said one of them, and he stepped up to Jackie Tar.</p> + +<p>"Good for you, matey," said Jackie Tar.</p> + +<p>"I've always wanted to travel," said the pigeon, "for I'm tired flying +around here and I'd like to see the world."</p> + +<p>"So would I," said another.</p> + +<p>"And I."<a name="Page_69"></a></p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/73-fig.jpg" height="80%" alt="The Pigeons Offer to Help" title="" /> +</p> + +<p>"And I." "And I," cried three or four more.</p> + +<p>You see pigeons are like people, for, lots of times, people want to do +things but they wait and wait and wait till some one starts it.</p> + +<p>"Four are all we need," said Jackie Tar, "one for each of us." So the +pigeons crowded about and begged and begged to be taken, and Kernel +Cob and Sweetclover and the Villain and Jackie Tar chose the biggest +and strongest, and the ones that they liked the color of the best.</p> + +<p>But one of the pigeons didn't want to go to the South Pole, for, said +she, "You don't hear as much of the South Pole as you do of the North +Pole, and unless you go to the North Pole, I won't go."</p> + +<p>So it was decided to go to the North Pole, "For," said Kernel Cob, "I +don't think it makes any difference after all. The Magician didn't say +which pole it was, so maybe it's just as well."</p> + +<p>"I say let's go to the North Pole," said Jackie Tar, "and, if we don't +find them there, we can very easily try the South Pole next."</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Kernel Cob, "let's go to all the Poles there are until we +find the right one."</p> + +<p>So they got upon the pigeons' backs, just as a little boy or girl gets +on a pony, and one of the pigeons, the one that Sweetclover was on, +said to the others:</p> + +<p>"Let's make a race of it for the first mile."</p> + +<p>"Good!" squeaked the others, and off they flew at their top speed.<a name="Page_71"></a></p> + + + + +<hr /> + + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/75-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHAPTER XVIII Header" title="" /> +</p> + +<h2>CHAPTER XVIII</h2> + + +<p>It was a most exciting race, for they were pretty evenly matched in +strength and speed, but one of them did win the race, and you will be +very glad to know that it was the one on which Sweetclover was riding.</p> + +<p>"Hurrah!" shouted the Villain, for he was better pleased that she had +won than if he had won himself.</p> + +<p>And they flew all day over Italy and, looking down, they saw people +working in the fields and the vineyards, growing rice and grapes and +all the fruits that come from Italy, and always they heard the people +singing beautiful songs of gladness.</p> + +<p>"I wonder what makes them so happy?" said the Villain.</p> + +<p>"It's because it's such a beautiful country, I guess," said +Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>And they flew over the lakes which lie between Italy and Switzerland, +and on all sides were mountains, the tops of which are always covered +with snow.</p> + +<p>Soon they came to Switzerland, which is away up in the mountains and +very beautiful.</p> + +<p>People travel from all parts of the world to climb these mountains and +to see the wonderful scenery.</p> + +<p>"Maybe it's here we are to find Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather,"<a name="Page_72"></a> +said the Villain, "and not at the North Pole at all."</p> + +<p>"Oh, I hope so," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>It was getting very cold now, for you know that the higher you go up +in the air, the colder it gets. That's why there's snow on the +mountain tops. And it began to storm; at first tiny flakes of snow +fell, and then faster and thicker till it was snowing very hard, and +the pigeons could scarcely see where they were flying.</p> + +<p>"It seems to me," said the Villain, "that every time I get upon a boat +or a bird or anything, it begins to storm."</p> + +<p>By this time it was really a blizzard and one by one the poor pigeons' +wings became so covered with snow they could not fly and fell to the +ground and lay on the snow.</p> + +<p>Of course they fell in different places, and Kernel Cob and Jackie Tar +and Sweetclover and the Villain were separated.</p> + +<p>Each one looked about for the others as best he could and, after much +searching about, the Villain found Sweetclover huddled in the snow and +very cold indeed. So he pulled off his coat and wrapped it about her +shoulders, although she tried her best to prevent him from making such +a sacrifice, but he said:</p> + +<p>"I will certainly suffer more seeing you shiver, than I would from the +cold itself."</p> + +<p>You see he was a kind-hearted Villain, and it was too bad that he was +painted to look like one at all.</p> + +<p>So he dug a hole in a snowbank and they crawled into it, and in that +way they were shielded from the wind.</p> + +<p>Night came on and Kernel Cob and Jackie Tar searched about, but it was +so dark that they could not tell where they were going, but only went +round and round in circles.</p> + +<p>In the morning the snow stopped falling, and if it hadn't been so cold +it would have been a very beautiful sight. Snow lay all about them as +far as the eye could reach.</p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/77-fig.jpg" height="80%" alt="Dog Rescues Jack" title="" /> +</p> + +<p>You must know that in the Alps mountains, where they <a name="Page_73"></a><a name="Page_74"></a>were, there are +dogs, and very wonderful dogs they are, who live in the snowy +mountains and are trained to go about to find lost travellers and to +help them.</p> + +<p>And one of these dogs came sniffing along and the first thing he did +was to find the Villain, and you can imagine his and Sweetclover's +delight when they saw him.</p> + +<p>Around his neck was a little knapsack, and this he told them to untie +and they would find food and a roll of fine warm wool inside.</p> + +<p>And putting the wool about them they were soon warm as toast.</p> + +<p>"Let us try to find Kernel Cob and Jackie Tar before they die of the +cold," said the Villain.</p> + +<p>"Very well," said Saint Bernard, for that was the name of the dog, +"Come with me and we'll soon find them."</p> + +<p>So he asked them to climb upon his back and he trotted off, and pretty +soon they came to a spot where Jackie Tar's head was sticking up out +of the snow. In a jiffy they had him out and sitting on the Dog's +back.</p> + +<p>"Hurrah!" shouted the Villain, "now for Kernel Cob."</p> + +<p>In less than a minute they came to a little mound of snow.</p> + +<p>So the Dog trotted up to it, and round on the other side they +discovered an opening like a door, and inside lay Kernel Cob asleep, +snoring away like anything.</p> + +<p>So they wakened him and he was glad to see them, you may be sure.</p> + +<p>And he climbed upon the Dog's back and all four rode off.</p> + +<p>"Where are you going?" he asked them.</p> + +<p>"We were on our way to the North Pole when our pigeons died," +explained Jackie Tar.</p> + +<p>"I'd like to take you there, if I could," said the Dog, "but I can't +leave my work here. But I'll take you to the foot of the mountains, +and there I'll have you meet a friend of mine who will take you to a +ship going to the North Pole."</p> + +<p>"Thank you very much," said Sweetclover. "We shall never be able to +pay you for your kindness."<a name="Page_75"></a></p> + +<p>"Thank you, Miss," said the Dog. "I'm sure it will make me very happy +to know that I helped you."</p> + +<p>And when they arrived at the foot of the mountain he introduced them +to his friend, a French poodle named Pierre, and when it was come time +to say good-bye, he gave them each his paw and the last they saw of +him was his bushy tail wagging behind him, as he trotted up the snowy +mountain where he did so much good.</p> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><p>I love dogs best of all God's creatures,<br /> +They have such noble, honest features,<br /> +You never really have to scold 'em<br /> +Because they do just what you've told 'em.</p></div> + +<div class="stanza"><p>And even dogs that have no beauty<br /> +Are always quick to do their duty,<br /> +For they are faithful friends, and true,<br /> +And gladly give their lives for you.<a name="Page_76"></a></p></div></div> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/79-dogs.jpg" width="100%" alt="Dogs Poem" title="" /> +</p> + + +<hr /> + + + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/80-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHAPTER XIX Header" title="" /> +</p> + +<h2>CHAPTER XIX</h2> + +<p>"Well," said their new friend Pierre, "That was a bad storm."</p> + +<p>"We would have been lost in the snow, if it had not been for your good +friend Saint Bernard," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>And Pierre took them to a seaport and put them on a sailing vessel +which is called a whaler.</p> + +<p>"I have heard that this ship makes many voyages to the North," said +Pierre, "And I'm sure that it will take you where you want to go."</p> + +<p>"You are very kind," said Sweetclover, "and we shall always remember +how good you have been to us."</p> + +<p>"It is a pleasure to be of service to you," said Pierre.</p> + +<p>And they said good-bye to him and went aboard the whaler.</p> + +<p>The next morning the vessel set sail amid great cheering from a crowd +which had gathered on the dock, and for days they sailed and sailed, +and it got colder and colder till the vessel came to great fields of +ice.</p> + +<p>But the dolls were happy, for they thought they were getting close to +the North Pole and soon they would find Jackie and Peggs' +motheranfather.</p> + +<p>"Do you think you will know them when you see them?" asked Jackie +Tar.<a name="Page_77"></a></p> + +<p>"I'm sure of it," answered Kernel Cob, "for I remember just the way +they looked in the glass ball that the Magician showed us in India."</p> + +<p>And one night as they were sailing along, the dolls crept out on the +deck to see where they might be, for all the time they were on the +ship they were down in the hold to be out of sight.</p> + +<p>And they sat on a coil of rope but could see nothing except the great +wide sea and the beautiful blue sky.</p> + +<p>And they fell asleep.</p> + +<p>But the vessel began to rock and, waking, they saw that a storm had +risen.</p> + +<p>"Quick," said the Villain, "we must get down out of danger, for if we +sit here we shall be swept overboard."</p> + +<p>But Kernel Cob who loved all sorts of adventures didn't want to go.</p> + +<p>"I love to be in danger," said he.</p> + +<p>"That's not sensible," said Sweetclover. "There is enough danger in +the world without looking for more of it. Come, let us go."</p> + +<p>And the storm grew worse and worse, and the vessel was rolling and it +was with great difficulty that they could stand.</p> + +<p>And now something very sad was about to happen, something I would like +not to tell you, but it really happened, so I must.</p> + +<p>As Sweetclover stood up to move she slipped and fell upon the deck and +would have rolled overboard if the Villain hadn't caught her, but +alas! his generous action brought about his own misfortune for the +vessel lurched at that moment and he was carried down to the side and +before he could regain his balance he was swept overboard.</p> + +<p>There was no time to stand there, for nothing could be done and sadly +Kernel Cob lifted Sweetclover and carried her below.</p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/82-fig.jpg" height="80%" alt="Ship In Ice" title="" /> +</p> + +<p>Let us not dwell upon the sadness of our poor little friends, but let +us feel sure that no matter how long they live and <a name="Page_78"></a><a name="Page_79"></a>no matter where +they go, they will always remember this good, true, unselfish friend +who was willing to lose his own life to save another's.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>And at length the vessel stuck in the ice and that was as far as they +could go. Kernel Cob put his head out of the window of the vessel, +which is called a port-hole, and saw nothing but ice, great fields of +ice, greenish white and it was bitter cold. But Sweetclover had found +some strips of woolen cloth on the ship which Jackie Tar had torn and +tied about them to keep them warm, for sailors, you know, are very +handy because they have no women about to help them to sew their +clothes and cannot be running to the stores to buy things.</p> + +<h3>VILLAINS</h3> + +<table summary=""> +<tr><td valign="top"><img src="images/83-villians-left.jpg" alt="Villians" title="" /> +</td><td><div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><p> +A Villain must be very horrid<br /> +To wear a frown upon his forehead<br /> +And lead a wicked pirate crew<br /> +To do the awful things they do.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><p>It's quite as easy to be good<br /> +And kind to all, as children should,<br /> +For grown-ups never give you toys<br /> +If you are naughty girls and boys.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><p>Besides, if you do what is right<br /> +Your mother kisses you at night,<br /> +And who could sleep in peaceful bliss<br /> +Without a mother's good-night kiss?<a name="Page_80"></a></p></div></div></td> +<td valign="bottom"><img src="images/83-villians-right.jpg" alt="" title="" /></td></tr> +</table> + + +<p><br /></p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/84-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHAPTER XX Header" title="" /> +</p> +<h2>CHAPTER XX</h2> + +<p>And Jackie Tar had found a little compass on the ship, and this he had +put in his pocket, for said he:</p> + +<p>"You can never tell when you may be lost around the North Pole."</p> + +<p>So they went ashore and, after Jackie had taken his bearings with his +compass to see which way to go, they set out to walk to the North +Pole.</p> + +<p>And after they had walked for hours and hours, they saw a little bear, +which is called a cub.</p> + +<p>"I wonder if he is a tame bear," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>And Kernel Cob went up to him as brave as you please and put out his +hand to the bear and said:</p> + +<p>"Hello, Teddy!" but the bear growled and showed his teeth.</p> + +<p>"Don't start anything like that," said Kernel Cob, "unless you want to +get hurt."</p> + +<p>"Well, don't you call me names," said the Cub.</p> + +<p>"Who's calling you names?" asked Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"You are," said the Cub.</p> + +<p>"What name did I call you?" asked Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"Would you like to be called after a make-believe bear if you were a +real one?" asked the Cub.<a name="Page_81"></a></p> + +<p>"No, I guess not," said Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"Well then," said the Cub.</p> + +<p>"Excuse me," said Kernel Cob, for he liked to see anybody who had +spunk.</p> + +<p>And they shook hands and were friends at once.</p> + +<p>"Who are you?" asked the Cub, "and what are you doing up here?"</p> + +<p>"I'm Kernel Cob," said he, "and this is Sweetclover and Jackie Tar," +and the cub came forward and shook hands with them, and really he had +very nice manners for a bear who lived so far away from nice people +and things.</p> + +<p>"You haven't told me what you are doing way up here."</p> + +<p>"We're looking for Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather," answered Kernel +Cob, "and we believe they are up here near the North Pole. Are we far +away from it?"</p> + +<p>"About a hundred miles or so," said Wak Wak, for that was the cub's +name.</p> + +<p>"Goodness," said Sweetclover, "how are we ever going to walk so far in +this dreadful cold."</p> + +<p>"If you'll come to my cubby hole," said Wak Wak, "we can sit down and +talk it over. It's not far." So they came to his cubby hole, they went +inside and it was nice and warm and comfortable.</p> + +<p>"You must stay the night with me," he said.</p> + +<p>So he covered them over with some pieces of fur and they all went to +sleep.</p> + +<p>But, in the middle of the night, they were awakened by loud yelping, +and running to the doorway of the hole they saw thousands and +thousands of what looked like little lanterns dancing on the ice.</p> + +<p>"What are all these lights for?" said Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"Those aren't lights," said the Cub, "those are eyes."</p> + +<p>"Who's eyes?" asked Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Wolves' eyes," said the Cub.</p> + +<p>"Stand back inside of the hole," said Kernel Cob, and he drew his +sword and stepped outside.<a name="Page_82"></a></p> + +<p>On came the wolves, yelping and growling and showing their great +yellow teeth.</p> + +<p>And one by one as they came up to devour our little friends, Kernel +Cob's sword flashed, and with each stroke down came a wolf.</p> + +<p>And when the last one had been slain Kernel Cob wiped his sword upon +his coat and went inside.</p> + +<p>"Well," said Wak Wak, "I'm glad I'm not a wolf. That's the greatest +fight I have ever seen."</p> + +<p>But Kernel Cob put his sword away and lay down to finish his sleep as +if nothing had happened.</p> + +<p>In the morning when they got up they went outside and counted the +wolves and they numbered two thousand, three hundred and twenty-one.</p> + +<p>But Kernel Cob turned his head away, for brave people are always +modest and cannot bear to hear themselves praised.</p> + +<p>Later in the day Wak Wak took them to a friend of his, a pack-dog that +he knew. A fine chap he was, and when he had heard our little friends' +story, he was very willing to help them.</p> + +<p>"If you can rig up a sled I'll take you to the North Pole, and very +gladly."</p> + +<p>"Why can't we sit on your back?" asked Jackie Tar.</p> + +<p>"I can't bear to have anything on my back," answered Speed, for that +was his name.</p> + +<p>"I guess I can take care of the sled," said Jackie Tar, "if I can find +some scraps of wood."</p> + +<p>"There are some staves of an old barrel not far from here," said +Speed, "and if you will come with me, you can see for yourselves if +they will do."</p> + +<p>So they went with him, and Jackie Tar found them very good indeed, and +in a short while had tied them together.</p> + +<p>So they hopped on, sitting one behind the other, Sweetclover in the +middle, and waving good-bye to Wak Wak, they soon were gliding over +the ice at a great clip.<a name="Page_83"></a></p> + + + + +<hr /> + + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/87-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHAPTER XXI Heading" title="" /> +</p> +<h2>CHAPTER XXI</h2> + +<p>Over the ice they went like lightning, drawn by the pack-dog, Speed.</p> + +<p>"I don't know of any name that would be better for him," said +Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"He goes as swiftly as the Condor did, do you remember?"</p> + +<p>Kernel Cob did remember, but he didn't want Sweetclover to think any +more about the past for, thought he: "If she remembers the Condor she +will remember the Villain, and the first thing you know we will be +swimming in her tears and I can't stand crying. It makes me very +angry."</p> + +<p>So he drew her attention to the scenery, although there was precious +little of that, only ice.</p> + +<p>"I wonder where we are," said Jackie Tar, and he looked at his +compass. "Whoa," he cried excitedly, and Speed came to a stop and sat +down on the ice.</p> + +<p>"Here we are," said Jackie Tar.</p> + +<p>"Here?" asked Kernel Cob. "Where?"</p> + +<p>"The North Pole," said Jackie Tar.</p> + +<p>"I don't see any pole," said Kernel Cob, and Jackie Tar laughed till +the tears ran down his cheeks and fell off in little icicles. "You +didn't suppose there really was a pole, did you?"</p> + +<p>"Of course," said Kernel Cob.<a name="Page_84"></a></p> + +<p>"I thought everyone knew that there wasn't a real pole here," answered +Jackie.</p> + +<p>"Then what do you call it a pole for?" asked Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"I don't know," said Jackie Tar, "only I know there isn't a pole. It's +just called that."</p> + +<p>"I don't believe you've found it at all," said Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"Oh yes," said Jackie Tar, "of that you may be sure for my compass +tells me that this is the top of the world."</p> + +<p>"Well," said Kernel Cob, "that's the silliest thing I ever heard, for +I thought we would see a great pole sticking high in the air."</p> + +<p>And they got off their sled and walked about.</p> + +<p>"Why did you want to come here?" asked Speed.</p> + +<p>"You see," explained Kernel Cob, "we are looking for Jackie and Peggs' +motheranfather, and once when we were in India a Hoodoo ..."</p> + +<p>"A Hindoo you mean," corrected Jackie Tar.</p> + +<p>"A Hindoo," said Kernel Cob, "showed us on a crystal ball a picture of +them in the snow, digging for gold. So we thought if we got to the +North Pole we would find them."</p> + +<p>"Nobody comes to the North Pole to dig gold," said Speed.</p> + +<p>"Why not?" asked Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Because there isn't any gold here," said the dog.</p> + +<p>"There isn't?" asked Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"No," answered Speed.</p> + +<p>"This is a funny world," said Kernel Cob, "the North Pole isn't a pole +at all, and after we get here there isn't any gold mine. I wouldn't be +surprised to hear that I wasn't alive."</p> + +<p>"The nearest gold mine that I ever heard of in these parts," said +Speed, "is in the Yukon."</p> + +<p>"Where's that?" asked Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"In Alaska," answered Speed.</p> + +<p>"Is that far?" asked Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Yes, it's a great distance from here, but if you like I'll take you +there."<a name="Page_85"></a></p> + +<p>"You're very kind," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"It's a pleasure to do for people who are so good," said Speed.</p> + +<p>So after Kernel Cob dug their names in the ice with his sword, they +got on their sled and Speed started off again.</p> + +<p>"How do you know how to go to Yukon?" asked Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Oh, I've been over the ice lots and lots of times," said he.</p> + +<p>And they travelled all day.</p> + +<p>"I never saw such a long day," said Kernel Cob, "the sun doesn't seem +to go down, but only round and round."</p> + +<p>"That's because we are so high on the earth," said Speed. "Some nights +are six months long."</p> + +<p>But nothing could induce Kernel Cob to believe this, "For," said he, +"I won't believe anything more about the world as long as I live."</p> + +<p>And after a few days they came to a place where the ice was broken, +and they had to cross by floating on huge cakes of ice, which was very +exciting.</p> + +<p>They were crossing on one of these once, and Kernel Cob and +Sweetclover had gone across with Speed, when the cake of ice on which +they were waiting for Jackie Tar, split suddenly, and Jackie Tar was +left behind on a small piece.</p> + +<p>In vain they tried to catch him and slowly but surely he began to +drift away from them farther and farther, and all they could do was to +watch him fade out of sight.</p> + +<p>"Oh," cried Sweetclover, "we shall never see him again.</p> + +<p>"Will he be killed?"</p> + +<p>"I don't know," said Speed. "He's got a good chance of being picked up +by a vessel, if he ever floats down south far enough."</p> + +<p>"Oh, I hope so," cried Sweetclover, "for he is such a brave sailor and +was so good to us."</p> + +<p>And after Kernel Cob and Sweetclover had said a prayer to the fairies +to take good care of Jackie Tar, they drove away in their sled and at +length came to the Yukon.<a name="Page_86"></a></p> + + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/90-jackie-top.jpg" width="100%" alt="A Prayer For Jackie" title="" /> +</p> + +<h3>A PRAYER FOR JACKIE TAR</h3> + +<div class="poem"><p>Do not think it very nice<br /> +To travel on a cake of ice<br /> +Except in Summer when it's hot;<br /> +But in the Winter, when it's not<br /> +And icy winds blow in my face<br /> +I like an open fireplace<br /> +Where I can watch the glowing flames<br /> +Or play upon the floor with games.<br /> +So let us say a fervent prayer<br /> +That Jackie Tar may land somewhere<br /> +Beyond the sweep of wind and storm<br /> +Where he may find it safe and warm.</p></div> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/90-jackie-bottom.jpg" width="100%" alt="A Prayer For Jackie-2" title="" /> +</p> + + +<hr /> + + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/91-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHAPTER XXII Heading" title="" /> +</p> + +<h2>CHAPTER XXII</h2> + +<p>When they reached the Yukon, they told Speed not to go near the city +or wait where he was, for they had been captured so often by people +they wanted to stay away from them. So Speed took them up into the +hills where they made their camp.</p> + +<p>But they hadn't been there a day when Speed was caught by a number of +men, and again Kernel Cob and Sweetclover were left alone to work +things out the best way they could.</p> + +<p>Sweetclover was very much discouraged, for said she: "Now that we are +here and have lost all our friends, and with no one to help us, I +don't see how we are ever to find Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather."</p> + +<p>But that only made Kernel Cob the more determined.</p> + +<p>"I've told you a thousand times that I'll find them, and find them I +will."</p> + +<p>"Well," said Sweetclover, "I certainly hope so, but I'm sure I cannot +see how it is going to be done."</p> + +<p>"You'll see if I am not right," said Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>But nothing happened to raise their hopes.</p> + +<p>So they went up into the hills in search of a scene that looked like +the one that the Magician had shown them on <a name="Page_88"></a>the crystal ball in +India, and they walked about all day until, tired and worn out, they +crept into a hollow stump to rest.</p> + +<p>They slept all night and in the morning they walked on.</p> + +<p>They were pretty high up in the mountains now, and Sweetclover, who +was very tired, began to cry.</p> + +<p>"Oh dear, oh dear," said she, "will nothing ever happen to help us?"</p> + +<p>And just then something did happen; something that looked as if it +were going to do them a great deal of harm, but which really did them +a great deal of good and it was this:</p> + +<p>High over their heads, so small that you could scarcely see it, was an +eagle. He was flying about in circles that brought him nearer and +nearer to where Kernel Cob and Sweetclover were sitting.</p> + +<p>Closer and closer he flew, and still they didn't see him until it was +too late.</p> + +<p>With a cry of alarm, Sweetclover jumped to her feet but the eagle +caught her up in a powerful claw.</p> + +<p>Kernel Cob had been slow to see the danger, and by the time he had +drawn his sword and was ready for the attack, he, too, had been caught +and was struggling in the eagle's grasp.</p> + +<p>You know, of course, that eagles carry things off to their nests, and +I suppose this one thought that Kernel Cob and Sweetclover were +babies, and would be nice for Mrs. Eagle to play with. So, with the +two dolls in his claws, he rose up from the ground with a great swoop.</p> + +<p>CRACK!</p> + +<p>The sound of a rifle and a bullet ripped through Kernel Cob's hat and +struck the eagle full in the breast. His wings fluttered for a minute, +and then with a plunge like a ball of lead he fell to the earth.</p> + +<p>"Well, well, well!" said Kernel Cob, as they lay under the eagle, +"that was a pretty close shave."</p> + +<p>"I wonder who did it," said Sweetclover.<a name="Page_89"></a></p> + +<p>"I don't know," said Kernel Cob, "but whoever it was did us a very +good turn, for if he hadn't killed the Eagle we'd have been pulled to +pieces in his nest, just to see what was inside of us. But come, we +must get out of here before the hunter comes to take us, for surely he +will want to keep the Eagle."</p> + +<p>"I don't see how we are to get out of here," said Sweetclover, "for +this Eagle weighs about a thousand pounds. I can't move, can you?"</p> + +<p>And when Kernel Cob attempted to pull himself from under the Eagle he +found he couldn't do it without pulling off his legs, and he was too +sensible to think he could get far without them.</p> + +<p>By this time the hunter who had shot the Eagle came running up, +followed by another.</p> + +<p>"It was a mighty foolish thing to do, John. I'll bet you've killed the +children," said the second one.</p> + +<p>And they came and lifted the Eagle.</p> + +<p>"I thought so," said the same voice. "Both of 'em dead."</p> + +<p>But the hunter, called John, had stooped and picked up Kernel Cob, and +was examining him with a curious smile.</p> + +<p>"Why, Margaret," he said, "they're dolls."</p> + +<p>And you should have seen Kernel Cob's face as he turned to Sweetclover +and said:</p> + +<p>"I don't see any woman, do you?"</p> + +<p>But Sweetclover only smiled.</p> + +<p>"Do you see the one that isn't John?" she said.</p> + +<p>"Of course," said Kernel Cob, "I'm not blind."</p> + +<p>"Well," said Sweetclover, "she's a woman."</p> + +<p>"But she's got a man's suit on," said Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"Well, that doesn't make her a man." said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"What'll women be doing next," said Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>And John and Margaret took Kernel Cob and walked to the edge of the +lake where there was a sled which they started to pull to the opposite +shore over the ice, for the lake was frozen over.<a name="Page_90"></a></p> + +<p>And on the sledge were a great number of bags of gold.</p> + +<p>"Be careful," said Margaret, "If we were to go through the ice every +bag of gold would be lost and all our five years' work would go for +nothing."</p> + +<p>And just then, as is often the case, the very thing happened.</p> + +<p>They were crossing a bit of new ice when a cracking sound warned them, +but it was too late to avoid the disaster, and the sledge, weighed +down by the gold, went through the ice and was no more to be seen.</p> + +<p>Of course there was nothing to be done, and, discouraged, they made +their way to the shore and sat down and thought and thought and +thought.</p> + +<p>"We'll have to go back to the mines and start all over again," said +John with a sigh. And they picked up Kernel Cob and Sweetclover, and +walked on.</p> + +<p>And after a little while, John and Margaret sat down on a log and were +silent for a long time. John had Kernel Cob on his knee, and Margaret +had Sweetclover in her lap, and neither of them spoke, but looked far +off without seeing anything except what had happened years and years +ago and left only a picture in their minds.</p> + +<p>And Margaret sighed and turning to John said:</p> + +<p>"John dear, don't let us try to find any more gold. What good will all +the gold in the world be to us without the children?"</p> + +<p>And John raised his head, and you could see tears in his eyes.</p> + +<p>"Little wife," he said, "you are right. Children are the greatest +riches in the world. Let us go back to ours."</p> + +<p>And Margaret just smiled and kissed him.</p> + +<p>And they went down the mountain side with smiling faces, carrying +Kernel Cob and Sweetclover with them.</p> + +<p>"I'm blest if I can understand any of this at all," said Kernel Cob. +But Sweetclover only laughed.</p> + +<p>"Men dolls, especially Soldiers, are the stupidest things in the whole +world," she said.<a name="Page_91"></a></p> + + + +<hr /> + + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/95-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="CHAPTER XXII Heading" title="" /> +</p> +<h2>CHAPTER XXIII</h2> + + +<p>And John and Margaret went down the mountain and in due time reached +San Francisco.</p> + +<p>And Margaret said:</p> + +<p>"I wonder if the children will remember us?"</p> + +<p>"I don't think so," said John, "for I believe they think we are dead. +We haven't heard from them since that time, a year ago, when there was +a report in the newspapers that we were lost in a snow storm."</p> + +<p>"Dear little children," sighed Margaret, "I hope it hasn't made them +unhappy. Let's send a telegram that we're coming."</p> + +<p>"No," said John; "let's surprise them."</p> + +<p>And they got upon the train and for five days they rode and during all +that time they played with Kernel Cob and Sweetclover, just as +children would. And a happy smile lit up Margaret's face, for when she +was dressed in woman's clothes and had on a hat with pretty flowers on +it, she looked very beautiful, and as she was very happy and always +smiling, it made her look more beautiful, for everybody looks more +beautiful when they smile.</p> + +<p>"I wonder where we are going?" said Kernel Cob.</p> + +<p>"You will see," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"I know I will see," said Kernel Cob. "Only I am going to escape from +here the first thing I can."<a name="Page_92"></a></p> + +<p>"Don't you dare," said Sweetclover.</p> + +<p>"Why not," said Kernel Cob, "don't you want to find Jackie and Peggs' +motheranfather?"</p> + +<p>"Not any more," said Sweetclover with a smile.</p> + +<p>"Girl dolls, especially flowers, are the silliest things in the +world," said Kernel Cob. "And if you don't want to come I will have to +go alone, for I have sworn to find them and no power on earth will +stop me."</p> + +<p>At this Sweetclover was very much alarmed.</p> + +<p>"Kernel Cob," said she, "if you don't get down on your knees and +promise by all the Fairies that you will not attempt to escape, I'll +never speak to you again."</p> + +<p>"But," said he.</p> + +<p>"Never mind," said Sweetclover "do as I tell you this minute."</p> + +<p>"Very well," said Kernel Cob, and he got upon his knees and promised. +But he felt very sad about it for he said: "Now, we shall never find +them."</p> + +<p>"Yes, we shall," said Sweetclover and she laughed so loudly that +Kernel Cob was afraid that she would have hysterics.</p> + +<p>And finally the train came to a stop and the conductor came through +calling, "New York, Grand Central Depot," and Margaret picked up +Sweetclover and John picked up Kernel Cob, and they got into another +train and rode a little way and got out again at another station +called Orange. And they got into a wagon and told the driver to drive +like lightning, and in a few minutes they came to a little white house +with honeysuckle growing all about, and they jumped out of the wagon +and were in such a hurry that they forgot to pay the driver. And they +rushed up the path and opened a little white gate in a little white +fence, and up another little path till they came to the little white +house.</p> + +<p>"They're going crazy," said Kernel Cob, under John's arm.</p> + +<p>"You will see why in a minute," said Sweetclover who was tucked under +Margaret's arm.<a name="Page_93"></a></p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/97-fig.jpg" height="80%" alt="The Parents Arrive at Home" title="" /> +<a name="Page_94"></a></p> + +<p>And John pushed open the door and rushed into the house followed by +Margaret, and, finding no one inside, they ran through and out into +the garden, which was a very pretty little garden with beautiful +flowers growing in it.</p> + +<p>And in the middle of the garden sat a little boy and a little girl and +they were making mud cakes.</p> + +<p>And when John saw them he shouted with a great glad cry.</p> + +<p>"JACKIE!"</p> + +<p>"PEGGS!"</p> + +<p>And Margaret sank down upon the garden path, for she was so happy that +she couldn't move another inch.</p> + +<p>And the two children stopped playing and turned to John and Margaret +and a look of wild happiness came into their faces, and Jackie jumped +to his feet and ran to John and threw himself into his outstretched +arms and cried:</p> + +<p>"FATHER!"</p> + +<p>And Peggs ran to Margaret and was hugged and hugged in her loving +arms.</p> + +<p>And all the time Kernel Cob was trying to understand what was going +on, for he knew Jackie and Peggs the moment he saw them, but couldn't +get into his head that Margaret and John were their motheranfather.</p> + +<p>"You dear, blessed children," cried John hugging them first one and +then the other, "and to think that we could have ever left you to go +hunt for gold."</p> + +<p>"And to think," said Margaret, "that these dolls should have been sent +by Providence, way out to the Yukon to remind us that children are the +greatest riches in the world."</p> + +<p>And she held the dolls up in her hands.</p> + +<p>"It's Kernel Cob and Sweetclover!" shouted Jackie and Peggs together, +and in a jiffy they had them in their arms.</p> + +<p>And they all had a wonderful party of ice cream and cakes and puddings +and candies, the best party ever you saw.</p> + +<p>"This is the happiest day of my life," said Father.<a name="Page_95"></a></p> + +<p>"It is indeed," said Mother.</p> + +<p>"I never thought I could be so happy," said Peggs.</p> + +<p>"You bet," said Jackie.</p> + +<p>"Well," said Sweetclover to Kernel Cob, "now do you understand?"</p> + +<p>"Huh," said Kernel Cob, "I knew it all the time, only I didn't want to +spoil the surprise for you."</p> + +<p>"But what I want to know," said Peggs, "is how Kernel Cob and Little +Miss Sweetclover never wilted like all the other flowers, but have +kept as fresh as the day we made them."</p> + +<p>"I'll tell you why," said Jackie, and he looked very wise. "It's +because they are fairy dolls and everybody knows that fairies live on +forever and forever!"</p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/99-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="The End" title="" /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/100-fig.jpg" width="100%" alt="" title="" /> +</p> + +<p><i>Dear Children</i>:</p> + +<p>Although we have been all over the world and even up to the moon, we +have never seen any books that you will like better (we think) than +the other books in the Volland "Happy Children" Series, to which we +belong. Here they are:</p> + +<div class="blkquot"> +<p>WINKLE, TWINKLE AND LOLLYPOP<br /> +By Nina Wilcox Putnam and Norman Jacobsen,<br /> +illustrated by Katharine Sturges Dodge</p> + +<p>THE PERHAPPSY CHAPS<br /> +By Ruth Plumly Thompson,<br /> +illustrated by Arthur Henderson</p> + +<p>RAGGEDY ANN<br /> +Written and illustrated by Johnny Gruelle</p> + +<p>MY VERY OWN FAIRY STORIES<br /> +Written and illustrated by Johnny Gruelle</p> + +<p>RHYMES FOR KINDLY CHILDREN<br /> +By Fairmont Snyder, illustrated by Johnny Gruelle</p> + +<p>QUACKY DOODLES' AND DANNY DADDLES BOOK<br /> +By Rose Strong Hubbell, illustrated by Johnny Gruelle</p> +</div> + +<p>You can get any one of these beautiful books from your Book Man, but +if he hasn't got them, write to our publishers, P.F. VOLLAND COMPANY, +at Chicago, Illinois.</p> + +<p class="signature">Lovingly yours,<br /> +<img src="images/100-sign.jpg" width="349" height="97" alt="" title="" /> +<br />Kernel Cob<br /> +Little Miss Sweetclover</p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/102-back-inside.jpg" width="100%" alt="Back Inside Cover" title="" /> +</p> + +<p class="ctr"> +<img src="images/104-backcover.jpg" height="80%" alt="Back Cover" title="" /> +</p> + +<p> </p> +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14110 ***</div> +</body> +</html> diff --git a/14110-h/images/01-frontcover.jpg b/14110-h/images/01-frontcover.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..b4a0305 --- /dev/null +++ b/14110-h/images/01-frontcover.jpg diff --git a/14110-h/images/02-inside.jpg b/14110-h/images/02-inside.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..b6a87f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/14110-h/images/02-inside.jpg diff --git a/14110-h/images/05-title.jpg b/14110-h/images/05-title.jpg Binary files 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