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-  “FRIENDS,” SAID THE GENERAL, ADDRESSING THE CROWD, “I HAVE TERRIBLE
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-                                  The
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-                             TEENIE WEENIES
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-                            IN THE WILDWOOD
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-                            WILLIAM DONAHEY
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-                            LIST OF CHAPTERS
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-               Chapter                                  Page
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-                  1 Alarming News                       7
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-                  2 The Captured Teenie Weenies        11
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-                  3 Campaign Preparations              16
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-                  4 A Warning in Camp                  20
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-                  5 The Queen of the Wild Men          24
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-                  6 The Storm                          26
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-                  7 A Suspension Bridge                29
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-                  8 A Badly Frightened Army            33
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-                  9 The Captives Attend a Dance        36
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-                 10 Help from a Ground Robin           39
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-                 11 The Poet Learns Sabo               44
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-                 12 Gogo’s Brave Act                   48
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-                 13 The Attack                         52
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-                 14 On the Wild Men’s Island           56
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-                 15 A Council of War                   59
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-                 16 Wild Men Bottled Up                63
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-                 17 The Dunce in Disgrace              66
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-                 18 Consulting an Engineer             70
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-                 19 The Old Soldier’s War Machine      74
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-                 20 The Dunce Looks for Excitement     79
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-                 21 The Scouts Have a Narrow           83
-                    Escape
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-                 22 The Battle                         89
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-                 23 The Red Cross                      92
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-                 24 Let There Be Peace                 96
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-                 25 The Peace Dance                   103
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-                 26 Home                              109
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-                 27 The Grand Review                  114
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-                           The Teenie Weenies
-                            In the Wildwood
-
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-                              Chapter One
-
-                             ALARMING NEWS
-
-
-The Teenie Weenies had known for some time that a tribe of tiny wild men
-lived in a big swamp many teenie weenie miles from the shoe house. Field
-mice and birds had carried the news of these strange little people to
-the Teenie Weenies. The wild men lived in the heart of a big forest and
-they spoke a language quite different from the Teenie Weenies.
-
-“These wild men are very cruel,” a friendly bird told the Teenie
-Weenies. “They are called Saboes, or frog eaters, and they would just as
-soon destroy a person as look at him.”
-
-“Well, they will never hurt us,” the General said, “for we shall leave
-them alone and, besides, they live a great distance from the shoe
-house.”
-
-“Well, you’d better watch out for them; there are a great many of these
-wild men and you can never tell when they might come along,” said the
-bird, who was a mourning dove and always looked on the dark side of
-things.
-
-The Teenie Weenies didn’t worry about the wild men much, for they lived
-so far away and, besides, there was the Teenie Weenie army ever ready to
-protect them against an enemy. But the little people soon had cause for
-worry, for a dreadful thing happened.
-
-One afternoon a snail raced slowly up to the shoe house with alarming
-news—the Lady of Fashion and the Poet had been captured by the wild men!
-
-“Gracious!” gasped the General. “How did you find this out?”
-
-“I-I-I-I saw them captured,” answered the snail. “The wild men took them
-and put them in their boat and paddled down the creek. There must have
-been five or six of the wild men. They all had bows and arrows and
-spears too, and they looked terribly fierce.”
-
-“Ring the bell,” cried the General. “We’ll have a great council and see
-what can be done.”
-
-Several of the Teenie Weenies ran to the old derby hat which served the
-little people as a school house and armory, and began furiously to ring
-the tiny bell. All the birds and animals who lived near the little
-village knew that when the bell rang long and loud it was a signal for
-them to come. In a few minutes, two birds flew under the rose bush where
-the village stood and one by one, several mice, a squirrel and a couple
-of intelligent-looking bugs appeared.
-
-“Friends,” said the General, addressing the assembled crowd, “I have
-terrible news! The Lady of Fashion and the Poet have been captured by
-the wild men. This—this snail here has just brought the report.”
-
-The Teenie Weenies and their friends were much shocked by the news,
-while the snail strutted about, feeling quite important at being the
-bearer of such an exciting message.
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-“When did this happen?” asked the mouse with a squeaky voice.
-
-“About five or six hours ago,” answered the snail. “I was walkin’ near
-the creek when—”
-
-“Five or six hours ago!” shouted the General, turning on the snail. “For
-the land’s sake, why didn’t you come immediately?”
-
-“I-I-I did,” answered the snail, with an injured expression. “I came
-just as fast as I could crawl.”
-
-“Of course you did,” said the General kindly. “I beg your pardon. I
-forgot for the moment that you do not move as fast as most of us.” The
-snail, who had rather a sensitive nature, was quite hurt by the
-General’s words and it instantly shrank back into its shell.
-
-After some talk it was decided to scatter up and down the creek in
-search of the lost Teenie Weenies. The birds flew up and down the creek
-until it was quite too dark for them to see, while the little people and
-the rest of their friends hunted all through the night without a sign of
-the Lady of Fashion and the Poet.
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-                              Chapter Two
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-                      THE CAPTURED TEENIE WEENIES
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-
-While the Teenie Weenies were searching along the creek for the Lady of
-Fashion and the Poet, those two little people were being rapidly paddled
-down the stream and away from their friends.
-
-The Lady of Fashion and the Poet had gone to the bank of the creek for a
-picnic. They had eaten their lunch and the Lady of Fashion suggested
-that they walk down the stream in search of wild flowers. They had only
-gone a little ways when the wild men, who had been watching them,
-suddenly leaped upon them from behind a big bush. In a few seconds the
-wild little fellows had carried their tiny prisoners to their canoe,
-after having securely bound their hands behind them. Lifting the Teenie
-Weenies into the boat the wild men jumped in after them and began to
-paddle down the creek.
-
-“This is a pretty bag of seeds,” moaned the Poet as the boat shot
-rapidly down the stream. “It’s hard to tell what will become of us now.”
-
-“If—if we could just get word to the General,” whispered the Lady of
-Fashion, “he’d bring the army and come after these—these wild men and
-rescue us.”
-
-“There’s no chance of writing a note and dropping it somewhere, with our
-hands tied behind us.”
-
-“I’ll tell you what we can do,” whispered the Lady of Fashion. “If we
-should see a bird we can call to it and ask it to tell the General that
-we have been captured.”
-
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-But the two Teenie Weenies never came close enough to a bird all that
-day, for the wild men paddled their canoe near the shore of the creek
-under the cover of the overhanging ferns and grass.
-
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-  THE QUEEN OF THE WILD MEN, SITTING ON THE BACK OF HER TURTLE.—_Chapter
-    Five._
-]
-
-As the canoe floated along down the stream the Lady of Fashion and the
-Poet spent their time studying the strange little wild men, or Saboes,
-as they were called. They were sturdily built little chaps, but a trifle
-smaller than the Teenie Weenies. They had dark brown skins, bushy hair,
-and around their fierce-looking eyes were painted circles of white. One
-or two of the wild men wore shirts with skirts almost to their knees,
-but the most of them were dressed only in trousers which were made from
-the skins of young frogs. Their spears were made of long sticks with a
-sharp fish bone tied to the end, and several of them carried bows and
-arrows, while their war clubs were made by fastening sharp blackberry
-thorns to a short handle. Many of the little wild men wore strings of
-beautifully carved raspberry beads about their necks and arms, which the
-little fellows called “gum gum,” the Sabo name for money.
-
-The canoe, which the little men paddled very skillfully, was made from a
-huge cucumber, and on the end of the boat was painted a queer face. This
-face was supposed to look like a cat and was meant to frighten the
-Saboes’ enemies.
-
-When evening came on and it began to grow dark, the wild men stopped on
-a sandy beach, where they made the two Teenie Weenies understand by
-motions that they would rest a while.
-
-Several of the Saboes bent over the stem of a tall dandelion, while one
-of the little men gathered an armful of the soft, fluffy down, which he
-put on the ground and covered with dry grass and sticks. He then took
-two sticks and rubbed them together so hard that they grew very hot and
-soon a spark fell into the dandelion down, which blazed up and quickly
-set fire to the grass and sticks.
-
-Presently two of the wild men, who had disappeared in the direction of
-the creek, returned and one of them carried the leg of a frog over his
-shoulder. The little men cut the leg into great chunks almost as big as
-a pea and these were soon roasting over the fire.
-
-The Lady of Fashion and the Poet sat on a log beside the fire and
-although the Lady of Fashion tried hard to keep from crying, every now
-and then a tear would trickle down her tiny cheek.
-
-“Don’t worry,” said the Poet. “The General will find some way to come to
-our rescue. He won’t let any harm come to us.”
-
-“I-I-I s-s-s-suppose so,” sobbed the little lady. “But I-I-I haven’t a
-clean handkerchief and—and—and my hair is a sight!”
-
-In spite of the fact that the Teenie Weenies were terribly worried, the
-roasting meat smelled wonderfully good and when it was done the
-prisoners’ hands were untied and they were each given a piece. Both ate
-a good portion and agreed that it was delicious. They wiped their
-fingers on a leaf and then the wild men tied their hands again and made
-them understand that they were to sleep.
-
-All night long the wild men kept up a bright fire. They took turns
-sleeping and watching their prisoners, but the two Teenie Weenies needed
-very little watching, for they were quite tired out with the day’s
-experience and slept most of the night.
-
-At the very first break of day the wild men were awake and after a
-hurried breakfast of frog ham and a blackberry which one of the men
-found, they once more pushed out in the canoe and paddled down the
-stream.
-
-Two days later they landed on the island where the wild men lived. When
-the two Teenie Weenies stepped out of the canoe a great number of the
-wild little people came running toward them. The women and children
-stared at them in great astonishment, while the men danced and swung
-their clubs and spears in a most terrible way.
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-                             Chapter Three
-
-                         CAMPAIGN PREPARATIONS
-
-
-All night long the Teenie Weenies searched without success for the
-captured Lady of Fashion and the Poet. The Indian found the spot where
-they had been surprised and taken. Their tiny footprints and the tracks
-of the wild men, as well as the spot where the canoe had been pushed
-into the water, showed plainly in the moist sand.
-
-“Him wild man, him get good start,” grunted the Indian after he had
-studied the footprints for some time. “We no catch ’um before him get
-home.”
-
-“I’m afraid not,” answered the General. “If that slow-poke snail had
-been a little faster we might have caught them.”
-
-“Ugh!” was all the Indian said.
-
-When all the Teenie Weenies had returned to the little village after the
-search, the General called a meeting.
-
-“Men,” he began, “we have got to do something and do it quickly!”
-
-“Call out the army, why don’t you?” shouted an excited mouse that had
-joined the crowd.
-
-“I believe we’ll have to,” answered the General. “I hate to use the
-army, but I don’t see what else we can do. These wild men are very
-savage and I have been told that there are many of them. If we go after
-the Lady of Fashion and the Poet, we are going on a hard and dangerous
-mission. We will have many long miles to march and there—there may be
-fighting. Now, men, I will put it to a vote. All those in favor of
-sending the army after the wild men in order to free our friends will
-say ‘yes.’”
-
-“Yes!” shouted every single Teenie Weenie, so loudly that they made the
-leaves tremble on the old rose bush overhead.
-
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-The little people started at once to prepare for the trip into the
-forest, for it was there that the wild men lived. It takes a great deal
-of work to outfit an army and the little men were soon buzzing about as
-busy as bees.
-
-Two squirrels offered their services, but the General was forced to
-refuse them, for they were such big eaters that the army could not
-afford to feed them.
-
-Several mice were hired to pull the wagons and the cannons and also for
-the officers to ride.
-
-A great quantity of food and tools had to be brought out and loaded into
-the wagons. It took seven hundred grains of wheat, six hundred grains of
-corn, thirty raisins, six dried prunes, fifty-eight beans, to say
-nothing of cocoa, salt, pepper, baking powder, picks, shovels, pulleys,
-ropes, tents, a great quantity of cheese for the mice-horses and many
-other things.
-
-It was quite late that night before the wagons were loaded and most of
-the little soldiers slept in their uniforms, for the army was to start
-into the forest soon after daylight.
-
-The army was to be made up of a division of ten infantrymen, two
-artillerymen, two mounted scouts, two cooks, a doctor and two nurses.
-
-The General was in command, with the Old Soldier as chief of staff,
-while Paddy Pinn had command of the artillery.
-
-When the little soldiers had said their last good-byes, the men stepped
-into line and at the gruff command of the General they swung away
-towards the great forest in which the wild men lived. The Indian and the
-Cowboy, mounted on mice, rode ahead of the army and picked out the best
-and easiest road for the soldiers, while the Turk, who was chosen as the
-aviator, flew above the army on the back of a bird, ever watchful for
-enemies.
-
-At noon the army halted for lunch beneath the shade of a lilac bush,
-where each man eagerly devoured the grain of baked wheat which had been
-given to each soldier that morning as his ration.
-
-After they had rested a bit, and when they had filled their tiny
-canteens with water from an old tin can, the command was given to “fall
-in.” Once more the army took up the march.
-
-The army had a hard time that afternoon, for the road it traveled was
-very rough. The little soldiers had to stop every now and then to chop
-weeds and dandelions from the road so the wagons and cannon could pass.
-Late in the afternoon the Turk told the General he had sighted an
-excellent place for a camp, and all the tired little chaps were made
-very happy when the order was given to make camp for the night.
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-                              Chapter Four
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-                           A WARNING IN CAMP
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-The first day’s march was very hard on the soldiers, for the sun was hot
-and the little fellows were not used to such long tramps. When the order
-came for the army to break ranks and make camp ready for the night, the
-soldiers worked with a will unloading the wagons and putting up the
-tents. The kitchen tent was put up first so the Cook and the Chinaman
-would lose no time in getting dinner ready for the hungry army.
-
-The mice that pulled the army wagons were given a good feed of cheese
-and they were quartered in a hollow tree for the night. The airplane ate
-ten grains of bird seed and hopped onto the limb of the bush under which
-the tiny camp lay.
-
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-When the camp had been put in order for the night, mess call was sounded
-and the soldiers formed in line with their tin plates. The Cook had
-prepared two boiled beans and a thimbleful of corn soup for the army.
-Each man was given a plate of soup, a big spoonful of bean and a large
-piece of bread.
-
-After dinner the little soldiers gathered on the bank of a puddle of
-water, where they bathed their aching feet, while others took off their
-uniforms and enjoyed a good swim. The foolish Dunce dived head first
-into the pool without first testing the water to see how deep it was and
-he nearly broke his silly neck, for the hole was only three Teenie
-Weenie feet (a little over an inch and a half) deep.
-
-“Believe me!” exclaimed the Dunce after he was pulled out of the water
-and sat on the bank rubbing a big bump on his head, “I’m through diving.
-I wouldn’t dive into a teacup full of water even if I could see the
-bottom.”
-
-The General decided to let the army rest for a day, as the soldiers all
-complained of sore feet and, besides, one of the horses was bothered
-with a lame leg, which had been hurt in a mouse trap a few days before.
-The men were given a little light rifle practice, while Paddy Pinn tried
-out the cannon at long range shooting, bringing down a dandelion in
-three shots at the remarkable range of four hundred and twenty Teenie
-Weenie feet (17 feet in our measurement).
-
-The noise of the cannon attracted the attention of many birds,
-squirrels, bugs and field mice, who gathered around the edge of the camp
-with wide-open eyes.
-
-“What’s the trouble?” asked a bright-eyed chipmunk. “Is there a war or
-somethin’?”
-
-“No,” answered the General kindly. “We are on our way to rescue a couple
-of Teenie Weenies who have been stolen by the wild men who live in the
-heart of the big woods.”
-
-“Well, you’d better go back,” warned the Chipmunk. “Those wild men are a
-bad lot and they are as thick as bees in clover time.”
-
-“We are not afraid,” answered the General. “We will keep on until we
-have rescued our friends.”
-
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-“All right! All right!” said the Chipmunk solemnly. “I wouldn’t give a
-wormy chestnut for your lives, but that’s your choosing, not mine. Let
-me tell you one thing—don’t forget that I warned you.”
-
-“Thank you just the same for your advice,” said the General, “but we
-must go on.”
-
-“All right!” muttered the Chipmunk. “But remember I warned you.” And
-shaking his head wisely he scampered off into the thick weeds.
-
-The little soldiers rolled themselves up in their tiny blankets almost
-immediately after supper and almost before the sun had disappeared over
-the western hills they were sound asleep, for they were to be up and
-well on the march before daylight again would appear.
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-                              Chapter Five
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-                       THE QUEEN OF THE WILD MEN
-
-
-Although the wild men who had captured the Lady of Fashion and the Poet
-were good to them, the two Teenie Weenies nevertheless were much alarmed
-as to what might happen, for the wild men kept their captives’ hands
-securely tied, and they watched them closely at all times.
-
-When the wild men brought the two Teenie Weenies to the island where the
-savages lived, the captives were the center of much interest.
-
-The Sabo men and women came swarming down to the water’s edge from all
-directions. They shouted and jabbered in a language the Lady of Fashion
-and the Poet had never before heard. Some came gliding out of the tall
-grass, while others peered from behind bushes and pebbles, quite as
-though they were a little afraid of the two helpless Teenie Weenies.
-
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-The women were curious little people. They were dressed in short dresses
-which came down to their knees and the cloth was woven out of
-thistledown and was wonderfully soft. The women dressed their hair in a
-strange manner. The Lady of Fashion could hardly keep from laughing at
-them, for it was coiled up to a point high in the air, shaped much like
-an ice cream cone. Most of the men were dressed in frogskin trousers,
-while the children wore bits of cloth about their waists.
-
-The men and women gathered around and carefully examined the clothes of
-the two Teenie Weenies, especially the Poet’s glasses, which were
-considered very wonderful by the wild little people.
-
-After a time the Lady of Fashion and the Poet were led along a path
-toward the center of the island, followed by a great crowd of Saboes.
-Presently one of the wild men who was walking ahead suddenly dropped to
-his knees and kissed the ground. Looking up, the two Teenie Weenies saw
-a very big turtle with a very short, fat woman sitting on its back. A
-man who walked beside the turtle with a hook in his hand, gave the
-turtle a sharp blow on the nose and the big fellow pulled his head into
-his shell and stopped.
-
-“Well!” exclaimed the Lady of Fashion. “I wonder who this fine lady can
-be.”
-
-“Why, why, this must be a sort of queen,” answered the Poet. “Maybe she
-is the queen of the wild men.”
-
-The Poet had guessed correctly. The fat lady on the turtle was no other
-than Her Royal Highness, Queen Mooie, ruler of the wild men.
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-                              Chapter Six
-
-                               THE STORM
-
-
-Before the sun had time to peep over the eastern hills the third
-morning, the little army was on the march. All day the soldiers tramped
-along, stopping every now and then to rest a few minutes beneath the
-shade of a friendly dandelion or burdock. All along the line of march
-many bugs, ants and birds gathered by the roadside to cheer the brave
-little army as it trudged by.
-
-“General,” said the Turk, as he slid off the back of the airplane, “it
-looks to me as though we were going to have a storm and I would suggest
-that you lose no time in finding a dry place to house the army.”
-
-“All right,” answered the General, “I’ll order the Indian to ride ahead
-and select a place to camp.”
-
-Even as the General spoke, the little soldiers heard the distant rumble
-of thunder, and the Indian, putting spurs to his mouse, quickly bounded
-away in search of a camp. Presently he returned with the good news that
-he had found a fine place to weather the storm.
-
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-
-A hollow log had been selected for the camp and the little men soon
-pulled the cannon and army wagons into the dark hole. In a short time
-the storm broke with great fury and it was a mighty good thing that the
-little army was protected by the hollow log, for the burdock leaves
-under which the Teenie Weenies always sought shelter from the rain would
-have been a poor place in such a big storm. The poor mice who pulled the
-army wagons trembled in terror at the loud peals of thunder. The Dunce
-shook so much with fright he almost loosened the buttons of his uniform.
-
-The storm passed quickly and the General ordered the army to be on its
-way, but the marching was hard and the men made slow progress, for the
-ground was muddy. The army marched around most of the mud holes, but one
-was too long and they were forced to wade through the thick mud. Most of
-the soldiers got over safely, but one of the wagons stuck in the mud and
-to make things worse, one of the back wheels was broken in trying to
-pull it out.
-
-“This is a pretty pickle!” growled the Old Soldier, sliding off his
-mouse at the edge of the puddle. “We’ll have to work fast to get this
-wagon out before dark.”
-
-“We might just as well unload the wagon, for we will never be able to
-pull it out while it’s loaded,” said the General.
-
-As the mud was quite deep, several of the soldiers were ordered to put
-on bathing suits and carry the baggage to solid ground. After much hard
-work the wagon was finally pulled out of the mud, although it took half
-the army and six of the mice to do it. As it was quite late in the
-afternoon, the army went into camp, while the Turk and the Old Soldier
-set to work to mend the broken wheel.
-
-[Illustration:
-
-  THE TEENIE WEENIE CAPTIVES VIEW THE FIRE-DANCE OF THE
-  WILD MEN.—_Chapter Nine._
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-                             Chapter Seven
-
-                          A SUSPENSION BRIDGE
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-
-The General fumed and fussed over the delay caused by the broken wheel.
-
-“It’s just one thing after another,” he grumbled. “If it isn’t one thing
-it’s something else.”
-
-“Well, General, it won’t do a bit of good to worry,” said Tess Bone, one
-of the Red Cross Nurses. “We’ll have to do the best we can and that’s
-all anybody can do—even a Teenie Weenie can’t do more.”
-
-“Of course, of course,” answered the General, as he paced up and down
-before his tiny tent. “I know it doesn’t do a bit of good to worry, but
-we must hurry if we ever expect to rescue the Lady of Fashion and the
-Poet.”
-
-The anxious General had the army up before daylight the next morning.
-They ate a hurried breakfast and were well on the way before the sun
-came up. In fact, the Dunce marched nearly an hour before he was fully
-awake.
-
-The big rain of the day before had left many puddles along the way and
-the little army often had to splash through them.
-
-With the help of the scouts, the army was able to find the best roads,
-for the Indian and the Cowboy, mounted on mice, rode ahead and picked
-out the best path. The Turk was of much help, too, in picking out the
-best roads, for he was able to see a great distance from the back of his
-bird airplane.
-
-“General,” said the Cowboy one afternoon as he rode up to the commander
-of the little army, “I believe there’s more trouble ahead of us.”
-
-“What!” shouted the General. “Great guns, now what’s the trouble?”
-
-“Well, sir, there’s a stream of water and I’m afraid we’ll be forced to
-march a long way out of our road before we can find a place shallow
-enough to cross. I talked to a field mouse who seemed to be familiar
-with the country, and he said there was no place where the stream could
-be crossed for many miles in each direction.”
-
-“I hope, sir, you were careful not to say where you were going,” said
-the General. “We are now nearing the land of our enemies and we are
-liable to meet with a spy at almost any time.”
-
-“I was mighty careful, sir, and told him nothing that might be used
-against us,” answered the Cowboy.
-
-The General ordered the Turk to fly up and down the stream on a scouting
-trip while the army stopped for lunch. Late in the afternoon the Turk
-reported to the General that they would have to take a two days’ march
-out of their road to a place where the stream could be crossed. The army
-pushed on and shortly after dark stopped near the stream, where camp was
-made for the night.
-
-The next morning the Doctor, the Old Soldier, Paddy Pinn and the General
-gathered on the banks of the raging stream to see what plan could be
-made for crossing the water.
-
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-The banks were very steep and the water was quite too swift to ford,
-although the stream was only two feet wide (in our measurement). It was
-finally determined that there was nothing to do but build a bridge.
-
-“We can throw a sort of suspension bridge across the stream,” said the
-Old Soldier, who was quite an engineer. “It will take us about a day and
-a half to do the work, but we will save time, for it would take fully
-two or three days to march to a place where we could cross without a
-bridge.”
-
-The war council thought the Old Soldier’s idea a good one and the
-General ordered the men to start work at once. Pulleys and ropes were
-brought out of the army wagons and some big logs for supports were cut
-from a bush near by. Several cattails, which grew near the stream, were
-sawed up into logs for the floor of the bridge. The bird airplane
-carried the workmen and ropes to the other side of the stream, where
-work was soon started on a bridge fifty-two Teenie Weenie feet long.
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-                        A BADLY FRIGHTENED ARMY
-
-
-It took a lot of hard work to build the big bridge. Every single Teenie
-Weenie worked with might and main. Even the mice who pulled the wagons
-and cannon, helped the work along by dragging the heavy logs up to the
-place where the bridge was being built.
-
-The little army was a full day and a half building the bridge and when
-the task was finished the wagons were loaded, the mice hitched to them,
-and led by the General, the army marched safely across the bridge.
-
-A big squirrel who lived in a tree near by was hired to watch the
-bridge.
-
-“We may want to get across this stream in a hurry,” the General told the
-squirrel. “If the wild men should push us back to this stream, and the
-bridge is destroyed, we certainly will be in a pretty pickle.”
-
-“I’ll guard it with my life,” answered the squirrel, who had been
-promised ten sunflower seeds and four hickory nuts for his work.
-
-The army once more took up the march and presently they drew nearer and
-nearer the forest. Great bushes overhung the path along which the
-soldiers marched. Tall, bright-colored toadstools grew by the wayside
-and everything was dark and mysterious.
-
-At noon the army was halted for lunch. The little soldiers sat on the
-soft moss under a big fern and each man ate the grain of boiled rice and
-bit of dried raisin which he had tucked into his tiny haversack that
-morning.
-
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-
-When the men had eaten, the General ordered them to fall into line and
-stepping in front of them he said: “Men, I have been informed by our
-aviator and by our scouts that we are rapidly drawing near the land of
-the wild men, so from now on straggling will not be permitted. Soldiers
-wandering away from the army run the chance of being captured and we
-will soon have need of all our brave men.”
-
-The General’s talk impressed the little soldiers, and the Dunce and
-Gogo, who often wandered away from the line of march, were very much “on
-the job” all afternoon.
-
-As the army marched beneath a bush, late in the day, it suddenly came
-face to face with a small garter snake that lay near a big stone.
-
-“O-O-O-O-O-oh, j-j-j-imminie C-c-c-c-christmas!” screamed the Dunce.
-
-The mouse on which the General rode gave one frightened look at the
-snake and quickly ran up the bush, dumping the dignified General off on
-his Teenie Weenie head. The rest of the army fled in all directions, in
-spite of the Old Soldier, who tried with all his might to stop the
-frightened soldiers. The snake was almost as badly scared as the army
-and it wriggled into a hole near by with remarkable speed.
-
-“Well, this is a fine army, I must say!” growled the General when the
-Old Soldier had finally got the soldiers back in line. “If you men run
-at the sight of a little snake, what will you do when you face real wild
-men?”
-
-“Pardon me, sir,” said Gogo, saluting the General. “We-all don’t mind
-fightin’ the wild men, but—we-all done object to bein’ et.”
-
-“Forward, march!” shouted the General, and the little army moved on
-towards the wild men’s land.
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-                              Chapter Nine
-
-                      THE CAPTIVES ATTEND A DANCE
-
-
-While the Teenie Weenie soldiers were gallantly marching to the rescue
-of their little friends, the Lady of Fashion and the Poet were being
-kept prisoners in one of the funny little houses of the wild men.
-
-Queen Mooie, ruler of the Saboes, was a very fat little lady, and like
-all fat people, big or little, she was very good-natured. When the Lady
-of Fashion and the Poet were brought before her, she was much interested
-in them and she made a long speech to the two Teenie Weenies in her
-strange language, but not one word could the little people understand.
-
-The house in which the Lady of Fashion and the Poet were kept was built
-up on posts about six Teenie Weenie feet (three inches in our
-measurement) from the ground. The houses were built up high as
-protection from the dampness, for the Saboes lived on a little island in
-the heart of a big swamp, and it also protected the little people from
-bugs. The floor of the house was made of sticks and the roof and sides
-were covered with a peculiar swamp grass. A flat stone about the size of
-a half dollar was placed on the floor, on which the wild men built a
-tiny fire to keep themselves warm in winter, and a small hole in the
-roof provided a chimney for the smoke.
-
-Twice a day the wild men brought the two Teenie Weenies delicious pieces
-of smoked frog ham, with many tiny rice cakes, and every other day the
-two prisoners were given a blackberry.
-
-One night shortly after the Lady of Fashion and the Poet had been
-brought to the wild men’s village, the two Teenie Weenies heard the
-beating of a drum. For what seemed hours the little prisoners listened
-to the tumtum, tumtum, tumtum, of the drum. There was no use asking the
-wild man who guarded them just outside their door, for he couldn’t
-understand them, so there was nothing to do but listen to the tumtum,
-tumtum, tumtum, and wonder what it was all about.
-
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-
-Presently one of the wild men climbed up the ladder to their house and
-motioned the two Teenie Weenies to follow him. He led them beneath a
-bush near by, where a lot of wild men were dancing about a great fire.
-The men sang a queer sort of song as they danced, while one
-strange-looking fellow, who was a sort of witch doctor, rattled a huge
-seed pod fastened to the end of a forked stick. The wild men performed
-this strange dance once a month, as they believed it would keep bad luck
-away from their tribe.
-
-The Queen of the wild men sat near the fire on the back of her turtle,
-while the rest of the Saboes stood in a circle about the dancing men.
-The fire had been built in a deep hole on top of a large stone and when
-the stone was almost red-hot, the wild men scraped the fire all out with
-long sticks.
-
-Then they lined the hole in the stone with sassafras leaves, into which
-they threw four large frog hams and then covered them over with several
-big leaves. Sand was then thrown onto the leaves, covering the hams
-tightly in the hot hole.
-
-The wild men built a fire all around the outside edge of the stone, and
-while the hams cooked they again took up the wild dance. When the hams
-were baked they were taken out and a piece was served to each person and
-the Lady of Fashion and the Poet both enjoyed the delicious meat.
-
-After everyone had eaten of the ham, the Queen ordered the two Teenie
-Weenies to be taken back to their prison, but although it was very late,
-the Lady of Fashion and the Poet could hear the loud shouts of the wild
-little people for many hours.
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-                              Chapter Ten
-
-                        HELP FROM A GROUND ROBIN
-
-
-The army was now in the very heart of the great forest and it took a lot
-of hard work to get the heavy wagons and cannon through the jungle. At
-times a path had to be chopped through the tall grass and all this had
-to be done as silently as possible, for the army was now likely to run
-across the wild men at any time.
-
-“I don’t want these wild men to know that we are in the neighborhood,”
-the General warned the troops. “It is much better to surprise them, and,
-besides, there is no telling just what they may do to the Lady of
-Fashion and the Poet if they discover that we have come to rescue them.”
-
-The path the army now followed was so rough that little headway could be
-made and the General had to order a halt every now and then to rest the
-mice and men. During one of these stops the General fell into
-conversation with a pert-looking little ground robin who had hopped onto
-the limb of a bush near by.
-
-“Do you know just where these wild men live?” asked the General.
-
-“I’ll say I does,” answered the robin, who used very bad grammar. “I
-knows more about ’em than I wants to. The nasty little scalawags! These
-wild men get most all the seeds hereabouts and it’s all an honest bird
-can do to scratch out a bare living.”
-
-“Could you guide us for a few days?” put in the General.
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-“Gracious!” tittered the bird, “you’d never reach the wild men’s place
-in a few days with all those wagons and mice. They live on an island.
-You’ll have to have a boat or somethin’ to carry you over the water.”
-
-“I have heard that they live on an island,” said the General, “but I
-mean could you show us the way to the water where we would be nearest to
-the island?”
-
-“Of course I could,” answered the bird; “that is, providin’ it would be
-worth my time.”
-
-“We will pay you,” said the General. “We’ll give you six sunflower seeds
-for your work.”
-
-“Make it six and a half seeds and I’ll do it,” cried the bird.
-
-The General agreed and the bird hopped along ahead of the army, jumping
-onto a bush occasionally to point out the best path. After a couple of
-hours’ march, the army came out onto a sandy beach, where the General
-called a halt.
-
-“This is the place and over there is the island,” cried the bird,
-nodding his head towards the water.
-
-The Teenie Weenies looked across the water and they could see the dim
-outlines of the island.
-
-The ground robin was paid his six and a half sunflower seeds and in a
-short time the tired little soldiers put up the tiny tents and made a
-most cozy little camp. They named it camp Bitem, because of the many
-mosquitoes about the place.
-
-As the General did not wish a fire to be built for fear the wild men
-might see the light, the little army made its dinner on two sliced
-strawberries and a few grains of rice. No lights were lit that night in
-the camp and a strong guard watched carefully throughout the silent
-hours, which were disturbed only by the sentinels as they killed
-mosquitoes with the butts of their rifles or stabbed them with their
-bayonets.
-
-Early the next morning the men set to work building a raft which was to
-be used in carrying the army across the water to the wild men’s island.
-
-A great many logs had to be cut, trimmed and brought to the water’s
-edge. The Cowboy hitched one of the strongest mice to the heavy logs and
-one by one they were hauled up to the workmen, who labored for nearly
-three days before the raft was done.
-
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-
-While the men were at work on the raft, the Turk flew over the wild
-men’s island in search of a good place for the army to land and at the
-same time he kept an eye open for the Lady of Fashion and the Poet. He
-flew as near as he could to the wild men’s village without being seen,
-but he could see no signs of the two Teenie Weenies.
-
-“I think the wild men have the Lady of Fashion and the Poet locked up in
-one of their houses,” the Turk told the General when he slid off the
-bird’s back at the army camp. “I noticed one of the houses was closely
-guarded and I think we shall find them there.”
-
-“We’ll soon find out,” answered the General, “for the army will be on
-the wild men’s island in a mighty short time.” Taking the Turk by the
-arm, the General showed him where the raft was being built.
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-                             Chapter Eleven
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-                          THE POET LEARNS SABO
-
-
-While the Lady of Fashion and the Poet were being held prisoner by the
-Saboes, the Poet very carefully listened to the wild men’s strange
-language and in a short time he was able to speak a few of their words.
-
-“Jinks, but it is hot in this shanty!” he said to the Lady of Fashion
-one morning as he wiped his forehead with his Teenie Weenie handkerchief
-and looked out through the tiny hole that served as a window in the
-house in which they were held prisoners.
-
-“If the Queen would just let us go out and take a little exercise once
-in a while it would help a lot,” suggested the Lady of Fashion fanning
-herself with a dry leaf. “Why don’t you ask the Queen? Maybe she will
-let us take a walk now and then.”
-
-“I’ll do it,” answered the Poet, and looking out through the door he
-called to one of the wild men who stood near guarding the house.
-
-“Gip bah wah hoo,” said the Poet, which means in Sabo, “We need
-exercise.” “Tell the Queen we want to get out of this shanty and take a
-walk once in a while,” he continued in the wild men’s language.
-
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-  THE WILD MEN ATTACK THE TEENIE WEENIES, AS THEIR RAFT
-  NEARS THE ISLAND.—_Chapter Thirteen._
-]
-
-The wild man grunted a couple of times and hurried off through the long
-grass towards the Queen’s house, while the two Teenie Weenies sat down
-near the tiny door to await his return.
-
-Presently the wild man came back and told the Poet that the Queen said
-that the Teenie Weenies could take a walk whenever they liked.
-
-“Well, we’ll take a walk right this minute,” announced the Poet, and he
-quickly helped the Lady of Fashion down the tiny ladder.
-
-The Teenie Weenies strolled along through the streets of the village
-while the two guards walked a few feet behind them. A great many
-children followed the Teenie Weenies about but, although the Lady of
-Fashion tried to make friends with them, they were very timid and stood
-off at a safe distance.
-
-At one place two wild women were preparing dinner and the Teenie Weenies
-were much interested in what they saw. One woman was baking rice cakes
-on a flat stone under which a fire was burning, while a young girl was
-grinding wild rice into flour by pounding the rice with a small rock in
-a hollowed-out stone. Near the house was a hollowed-out log with leaves
-spread over the top to keep out the dust, and one of the guards told the
-Poet that the log was filled with salt water in which the frog hams were
-pickled before they were smoked.
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-
-The two Teenie Weenies spent a very pleasant afternoon looking about the
-village and it was quite late before they returned to their prison.
-
-“Oh, dear me,” said the Lady of Fashion as she threw herself down on one
-of the soft grass mats, “I wonder what is going to happen to us. Do you
-think the General will come with the army and rescue us?”
-
-“Of course he will,” answered the Poet. “All we have to do is to be
-patient and he’ll be here pretty soon.”
-
-“But what if he doesn’t know that we have been captured by these wild
-men?” asked the Lady of Fashion anxiously.
-
-“He will know all right,” said the Poet. “The Teenie Weenies could see
-the footprints of the wild men in the sand where we were captured. That
-is enough to tell them what has happened to us.”
-
-“Oh, dear, if they would only come!” And the poor little lady began to
-sob.
-
-“Here! Here!” said the Poet anxiously, for he always felt mighty
-uncomfortable whenever the Lady of Fashion cried. “You must not cry.
-That won’t do a bit of good—just makes you feel bad and me worse.”
-
-“I-I-I c-c-can’t help it,” sobbed the little lady. “I want clean
-clothes, my hair needs washing, I want some of the Cook’s good apple
-butter, I want my toothbrush and I-I-I want to go home.”
-
-The Poet tried his best to comfort her and presently she cried herself
-to sleep.
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-                             Chapter Twelve
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-                            GOGO’S BRAVE ACT
-
-
-After much sawing, chopping and splitting of logs, the Teenie Weenies
-finally finished building the raft which was to carry the little army to
-the wild men’s island.
-
-“We’ve got to give the raft a trial before we get all loaded up with
-supplies,” said the Old Soldier when the work had been done. “I’ll take
-it on the water this afternoon and give it a good try-out.”
-
-“Quite right, quite right,” agreed the General as he sat down on a dry
-fern leaf. “We’ll have to send the army over in two trips. First the
-infantry can be taken over, then the raft can return for the artillery
-and some supplies.”
-
-“Will the raft carry the cannon and the two mice that pull it?” asked
-the Doctor.
-
-“Certainly,” said the Old Soldier. “It even ought to hold a good-sized
-paving brick.”
-
-“Well, you can just bet I won’t get on that old raft until it has been
-thoroughly tried out,” announced Tess Bone as she arranged her dainty
-little cap and patted the Red Cross badge on her arm.
-
-“That’s the way I feel about it too,” added Sally Guff, the other nurse
-with the army.
-
-“You don’t need to worry about this raft,” laughed the Old Soldier.
-“It’s well made and every log is securely tied with strong, number forty
-thread.”
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-
-Right after lunch the General ordered several of the soldiers to help
-the Old Soldier take the raft out for a trial trip.
-
-With the help of the big sweep on the stern of the raft and the use of
-several long poles, the little men slowly pushed the craft out into the
-stream.
-
-“Jumping beans!” exclaimed the Old Soldier as the raft slid easily out
-into the water. “That is what I call a good—” but the Old Soldier never
-finished the sentence, for at that very moment a big frog poked his head
-out of the water and hopped up onto the raft.
-
-“Oooooo, a-a-a s-s-submarine!” gasped the Dunce. “Jump for your lives,”
-and he leaped head first into the deep water.
-
-Most of the Teenie Weenies gave one look at the ugly frog, followed the
-Dunce into the water and swam as fast as they could for shore. The Old
-Soldier and Gogo were the only men to hold their ground, and if it had
-not been for these brave little fellows, the frog would have captured
-the transport without a battle. The Old Soldier drew his sword and
-attacked the frog, while Gogo struck the big fellow over the head with
-the boat pole. The frog, who had been attracted by the red coats of the
-soldiers, had hopped onto the raft in search of a meal, but he quickly
-slid back into the water at the first blow of the boat pole.
-
-The soldiers who had jumped into the water were much ashamed of their
-behavior and they all quickly returned to the raft and finished the
-trial trip they had started.
-
-“My brave lad,” said the General, grasping Gogo by the hand when the
-raft returned from its trip, “in behalf of the Teenie Weenie army I want
-to thank you for your great bravery and I hereby promote you to first
-sergeant in the Teenie Weenie army.”
-
-“Oh, dat’s all right, General,” said Gogo, much confused at the honor
-thrust upon him. “There’s no fool frog what’s done gonna scare me when
-I’s mad, and I was certainly mad at that fool frog.”
-
-The raft proved to be thoroughly seaworthy, so the General gave orders
-for the men to be ready to board her just as soon as the wind and
-current were favorable for the trip to the wild men’s island.
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-                               THE ATTACK
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-It was a long trip to the wild men’s island and the General wished to
-make the journey under cover of darkness. “I want to land on the island
-before daybreak so we can surprise the wild men,” the General told his
-officers, who were gathered for a council of war.
-
-“The Sailor tells me,” continued the General, “that the wind and current
-are just right to sail the raft over to-night. I will take over the
-infantry on the first trip and then the raft can return for the
-artillery and the baggage and the rear guard, which the Old Soldier will
-command.”
-
-The Cook had a great pot of rice cooked and he had stewed five lima
-beans. This great amount of food was portioned out, and three days’
-rations were given to each soldier.
-
-A number of picks and shovels, with a lot of bags and a chest of
-bullets, was loaded onto the raft.
-
-Promptly at eleven o’clock the General, followed by several men, marched
-onto the raft and some of the soldiers with long poles quickly pushed
-out into the dark stream.
-
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-  THE BOTTLE.—_Chapter Sixteen._
-]
-
-The Sailor and the Cowboy handled the big sweep at the back of the raft,
-while the Policeman and the Scotchman pushed wherever they could with
-the long poles.
-
-No lights were allowed on the raft and the men were ordered to talk only
-in whispers, for the General wished to land on the island unknown to the
-wild men.
-
-“J-j-j-jimminie C-c-christmas!” stuttered the trembling Dunce, “I-I-I’m
-not a-a bit s-s-scared. Are you, G-g-gogo?”
-
-“Not v-v-very m-m-much,” answered the colored lad, trying to keep his
-knees from knocking together. “I done hope we-all—”
-
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-
-But at that minute, the raft struck something with such a bang it nearly
-upset most of the little soldiers. In fact, the Scotchman would have
-tumbled into the water if the Cowboy hadn’t caught him.
-
-The raft had struck the limb of an old tree that lay in the water and to
-the alarm of the General it stuck fast.
-
-“This is terrible. Perfectly terrible,” groaned the General, glancing
-towards the eastern sky. “It will soon be daylight and the wild men will
-see us if we are delayed here.”
-
-The men worked with might and main to free the raft, but it was stuck
-tight to the snag and before they managed to get it free it was broad
-daylight.
-
-“The wild men have very likely seen us by this time,” said the General,
-peering towards the island. “So instead of our surprising them, they
-probably will surprise us, but we have got to land. Examine your rifles
-and see that they are in condition to use, for we are likely to have a
-fight.”
-
-“Look there!” cried the Sailor, pointing towards the shore, for the raft
-was now only a short distance from the island. “There’s something behind
-that stick.”
-
-“Maybe it’s a wild man,” suggested the Dunce, turning a trifle pale.
-“Don’t you think we had better go back, General?”
-
-“We intend to go on,” said the General, glancing scornfully at the
-frightened Dunce, “but if you want to you can jump into the water and
-swim back.”
-
-“I-I-I think I’ll stay here,” said the Dunce as he thought of the many
-frogs and turtles that might snap him up if he tried to swim back.
-
-As the raft drew near the shore, several arrows whistled over the
-soldiers’ heads and instantly a number of wild men sprang up from behind
-a stick that lay on the shore and began shooting at the raft.
-
-“Make ready, men!” shouted the General, drawing his sword. “Shoot over
-the wild men’s heads when I give the word to fire. We don’t want to hurt
-any of them if we can avoid it.”
-
-“O-o-o-oh, I-I-I’m shot!” screamed the Dunce, as an arrow knocked his
-hat from his head, but the rest of the little soldiers never heard the
-foolish fellow, for they stood ready, awaiting the General’s order to
-fire.
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-                        ON THE WILD MEN’S ISLAND
-
-
-“Deliver this note at once to the Old Soldier,” said the General, as he
-handed the following letter to the army aviator:
-
-    Commander of the rear guard of the Teenie Weenie Army, Camp
-    Bitem, on the Swamp Road:
-
-    My dear Captain:
-
-    We have had a battle with the enemy and our brave men have put
-    them to rout.
-
-    Our transport met with an accident and it was broad daylight
-    before we landed on the island.
-
-    The wild men attacked us as we neared the shore and sent a
-    shower of arrows at us.
-
-    I ordered my men to return the fire, and at the first crack of
-    their rifles the wild men were greatly scared and ran off into
-    the tall grass; I believe that it is the first time the wild men
-    have ever heard a rifle shot.
-
-    We have taken possession of a high bank where I have ordered the
-    men to begin work on a trench.
-
-    The raft is now on its way to your camp, and I want you to rush
-    over the cannon and baggage as soon as possible, for I fully
-    expect the wild men to attack us before long.
-
-    I am sending this note by our brave aviator so you can have
-    things ready to load on the raft when it arrives.
-
-                        Respectfully yours,
-
-                             THE GENERAL,
-
-                       Commander in Chief of the Teenie Weenie Army.
-
-    P. S.—I forgot to say that none of my men was hurt in the battle
-    except the Dunce, who was badly scared by being shot through the
-    hat.
-
-“Yes, sir,” saluted the Turk, and springing onto the back of the
-airplane he quickly flew out of sight over the water.
-
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-When the Old Soldier received the General’s message, he set to work at
-once breaking camp and when the raft arrived the artillery was quickly
-loaded. The raft made two trips during the day and most of the necessary
-baggage was taken over to the island.
-
-A line of trenches was considered necessary by the General, who ordered
-Sergeant Gogo to direct the work and that brave little chap had the
-trenches done in a remarkably short time.
-
-Nothing more was seen of the wild men, but the closest watch was kept,
-for there was no telling when they might appear again.
-
-The little soldiers were much too excited to sleep and most of them sat
-about the tiny camp fire until a late hour talking of the day’s
-experience, but one by one they finally rolled up in their tiny blankets
-and slept, while the guards paced back and forth, ever watchful for
-prowling wild men.
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-                            A COUNCIL OF WAR
-
-
-For several days the army spent their time building trenches and making
-a comfortable camp, while the army scouts learned all they could about
-the wild men and the lie of the land.
-
-The Red Cross tent had been set up and the tiny cots looked very pretty,
-with their clean white sheets. Fortunately, there had been little use
-for them, as the army had been unusually healthy, the only exception
-being the Chinaman, who had been badly bitten by a pollywog, or tadpole,
-while he was taking a swim in the river.
-
-There had been very little excitement in camp for some time. Not a
-single wild man had been seen since the morning the army had landed on
-the raft and the soldiers had nothing much to do while off guard duty
-but to kill mosquitoes, which were thick about the camp.
-
-Early one morning the Turk was called to the General’s tent, where he
-remained for some time.
-
-“Somethin’ doin’, I’ll bet,” thought the Dunce, who was on guard duty at
-the time in front of headquarters.
-
-Something really was doing, for the Turk was ordered to fly out at once
-and make a careful map of Sabo Island. The Turk hurried to his tent,
-where he supplied himself with paper and pencils and a pair of tiny
-field glasses. The army airplane was dining on a fat worm when the Turk
-arrived, so he sat down and waited until the bird had eaten his
-breakfast.
-
-“We’ve got to go out and make a map of the wild men’s island,” said the
-Turk.
-
-“All right,” answered the bird, “I’m ready,” and hopping onto the ground
-he squatted down while the Turk climbed up on his fat back.
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-The Turk headed the bird to a big tree which grew on the river bank near
-the island and in a few minutes the airplane settled easily on the
-topmost branch. The great blue river lay far beneath the Turk and with
-the help of his field glasses he was able to make a good map of the
-island and the surrounding country.
-
-When he returned to the Teenie Weenie camp the General immediately
-called a council of war and the little aviator was asked to explain the
-map in detail.
-
-“Well,” began the Turk, “the circle marked Camp Bitem is the place where
-we camped and built the raft and the dotted line is the course we took
-to our present camp. The wild men have a sort of camp or fort, I
-couldn’t just exactly make out what it was, but anyhow they are gathered
-in some force on the only cleared ground between their village and our
-camp.”
-
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-]
-
-“We couldn’t march through the grass and trees and cut the wild men’s
-camp off from the village, could we?” asked the Old Soldier.
-
-“No, sir, I don’t think so,” answered the Turk, “for I do not believe
-anyone could possibly get through the grass and trees.”
-
-“Well, that’s too bad,” muttered the General. “I wanted to get those
-wild men out of that place with as little trouble as possible, but it
-looks as though we would have to take their fort by storm.”
-
-All the Teenie Weenie officers gathered in the General’s tent listened
-solemnly to their commander’s words, for they knew it would be mighty
-serious if they were forced to charge the wild men’s fort.
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-                          WILD MEN BOTTLED UP
-
-
-“I done got ’em bottled up! I done got ’em bottled up!” shouted Gogo,
-the little colored Teenie Weenie, as he ran panting up to the General’s
-tent.
-
-“What’s bottled up? What’s all the excitement about?” asked the General,
-popping his head through the opening of his tent.
-
-“Why I-I-I done ketched one of the wild men and turned him ovah to the
-guard and I done got three mo’ corked up in a bottle.”
-
-“Great Guns! This is exciting. Tell me about it,” cried the General.
-
-“Well, you see it’s dis way,” said Gogo, sitting down on a pebble and
-mopping his head with his tiny handkerchief. “I done took a walk out
-beyond the picket lines yonder. I knew I had no business wanderin’ out
-dere, but I jus’ kept on and pretty soon I run across a big bottle
-a-layin’ on its side.
-
-“I was kind of ’spicious about dat bottle, fo’ I done see through de
-glass where some dry grass had done been fixed up fo’ a bed, mighty like
-some one been sleepin’ dere.
-
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-“‘Gogo,’ I says to myself, ‘some one been sleepin’ heah in dis bottle
-and it ain’t none of de Teenie Weenies, fo’ none of dem has been out
-heah dis far.’ Den I made up my mind that it mus’ be some of dem
-scalawag wild men and I reckon dey mus’ stayed in dis bottle when dey
-was on guard duty watchin’ our army.
-
-“‘But why did dey-all stay in dis heah bottle?’ I says to myself. ‘It’s
-not cold nights.’ But jus’ den a big mosquito cam’ a-buzzin’ and
-a-buzzin’ round and den I knew dat the wild men been a-stayin’ in dat
-bottle fo’ to keep de mosquitoes from bitin’ ’em.
-
-“I says to myself, ‘Some of dese wild men will be comin’ ’round heah
-pretty soon and maybe I can done cotch ’em and extinguish myself.’”
-
-“Distinguish yourself,” corrected the General.
-
-“Yes, sah,” continued the little colored fellow. “Well, I done crawl
-under a leaf and waited. I done wait fo’ a long time, but pretty soon I
-done see fo’ of de wild men come sneakin’ along and pretty soon dey done
-make right fo’ de bottle. Three of ’em done crawl in de bottle and one
-of ’em done squat down outside by de openin’ of de bottle kinda like he
-was guardin’.
-
-“‘By de great corn pone,’ I says, ‘if a couple of de Teenie Weenies was
-heah we could done cotch dese scalawags.’
-
-“Pretty soon I thought to myself, ‘Why don’t you ketch ’em yourself?’ So
-I done sneaked out up behind de wild man what was guardin’ de mouth of
-de bottle and done cracked him on de head with de butt of my gun. I
-didn’t hit very hard—just hard enough to stun him a little—and den I
-grabbed a cork dat was layin’ near by and stuffed it into de bottle and
-braced it with a stick of wood so the scalawags couldn’t get out. I then
-picked up de wild man I had knocked down and brought him into camp and
-dat’s all.”
-
-“A very brave deed, sergeant,” said the General. “And I will immediately
-send out a squad of men to bring your prisoners into camp.”
-
-The Old Soldier was ordered to take a squad of men and go after the
-prisoners, while the Doctor was sent to dress the bump on the head of
-the wild man that Gogo had knocked down. After a great deal of work the
-soldiers managed to pull the three wild men out of the bottle and when
-they were brought into camp they were securely tied to a strong blade of
-grass.
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-                         THE DUNCE IN DISGRACE
-
-
-“Why are you making such a fine camp here, General?” asked the Doctor,
-as he noticed that the Teenie Weenies continued to improve the camp.
-“Won’t we have to move on pretty soon if the wild men do not attack?”
-
-“We’ll stay right here for some time,” answered the General, taking off
-his tiny sword and laying it on the table which stood in front of his
-tent. “We are within striking distance of the wild men’s village, so the
-aviator tells me, and we’ll use this camp for our base of operations.”
-
-“General,” said the Cook, saluting the commander of the Teenie Weenie
-army, “I beg your pardon, but there is something I must tell you.”
-
-“What is it, sir?” said the General, returning the Cook’s salute.
-
-“Why sir, there’s a thimble missing from among my cooking things. I put
-two beans to soak in it last night and when I went to look at them a
-little while ago the beans were lying on the ground and the thimble was
-gone.”
-
-“That’s most strange,” said the General; “I’ll have the Cowboy look into
-the matter and see if he can find out what has happened to the thimble.”
-
-“Thank you, sir,” said the Cook, “I’m a little short of cooking pans and
-kettles and I’d like to have it back.”
-
-The Cowboy was ordered to look for the lost thimble, but before he had
-fairly started the search, the thimble turned up in a most peculiar way.
-Down the main street of the camp towards the General’s tent marched the
-Dunce with the lost thimble over his head and followed by a laughing
-crowd of soldier.
-
-“What’s the idea of this?” asked the General as the Dunce stopped before
-him.
-
-“Safety first,” answered the Dunce.
-
-“What do you mean by safety first?” asked the General, trying hard to
-keep from laughing at the ridiculous sight.
-
-“W-w-well, you s-s-see,” began the Dunce, “I thought this thimble would
-make a fine suit of armor, and protect me from the wild men’s arrows. I
-took it out back of camp, got some tools and cut a couple of holes for
-my arms to go through and another hole to see through—”
-
-“Yes, and spoiled a perfectly good thimble,” put in the General.
-
-“Jinks!” exclaimed the Dunce, “I never thought of that.”
-
-“Of course you didn’t,” answered the General sternly. “You have a habit
-of doing your thinking afterwards, and that is a mighty bad habit.”
-
-“Quite right! Quite right!” cried a field mouse, who had been hanging
-around the camp for a few days. “Quite right, I says. There’s always a
-time to think. One ought to do a heap of thinking before one acts, I
-says.”
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-“Yes, you’re right,” put in the General, glaring at the mouse, who was
-very talkative. “One ought to think a great deal and then he ought to
-say only about one half of what he thinks.”
-
-“Words of wisdom! Words of wisdom!” cried the mouse, never dreaming the
-General’s rebuke was aimed at him, and he strolled down the camp street
-quite pleased with himself.
-
-“Now, Dunce,” said the General, “I’m going to try to see if I can help
-you do a little thinking.”
-
-“Y-y-yes, s-s-s-sir,” answered the Dunce.
-
-“I’m going to make you wear that thimble for the rest of the day and
-that ought to help you to remember that you have spoiled a perfectly
-good cooking pot, just because you didn’t happen to think.”
-
-All day long the poor Dunce was forced to walk up and down in front of
-the General’s tent, wearing the heavy thimble. It was a warm day and the
-thimble grew quite hot in the sunshine, so his punishment was pretty
-hard, but there is no doubt it did him a great deal of good.
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-                         CONSULTING AN ENGINEER
-
-
-The General studied the map of the wild men’s island which the Turk had
-drawn, in the hope that he could figure out a way to attack the Saboes
-without storming their fort. In storming the fort, the General felt sure
-that many of his soldiers might be injured and he wished to rout the
-enemy with as little damage as possible.
-
-“I have it! I have it!” exclaimed the General one morning as he sat
-studying the tiny map. “We can hire a mole to tunnel under the wild
-men’s fort and then we can blow it up with a firecracker.”
-
-“Bully!” shouted the Old Soldier. “And before they get over the surprise
-of the explosion we can charge through the destroyed fort into the
-village.”
-
-“That’s the idea,” smiled the General. “We’ll go over to-morrow and
-engage the old mole who lives down by the river.”
-
-“Moles are great engineers,” said the Doctor, “and what they don’t know
-about underground digging isn’t worth knowing.”
-
-The next day the General and the Doctor, with an escort of four
-soldiers, set out on the journey to the mole’s home.
-
-“S-s-say, what is a m-m-mole anyhow?” asked the Dunce as the little
-party marched along.
-
-“A mole? Why, a mole—let’s see, a mole—why a mole is a mole,” answered
-Gogo.
-
-“I’ll tell you what a mole is like,” laughed the Doctor, who had
-overheard the Dunce’s question. “A mole is an animal almost the size of
-a rat and he lives under the ground. He has very small eyes and ears,
-and he very seldom comes out in the day time, for it is pretty hard for
-him to see in the bright sunlight. He has very short and powerful legs
-with which he can dig very fast. He lives on worms and grubs and roots,
-and he is usually very gruff and bad-tempered.”
-
-Presently the little party came to the place where the mole lived and
-the General ordered the soldiers to halt. They had stopped by the side
-of a steep bank and near the top was a hole under the roots of a tree,
-which was the front door of the mole’s home.
-
-“Dress up in line, men!” commanded the General, “and when Mr. Mole comes
-to the door of his house I want you all to present arms, for we will
-have to use the greatest diplomacy in order to engage this fellow.”
-
-The General stepped up near the bank and called loudly several times
-into the hole and presently a long furry nose appeared in the opening.
-
-“Well, what do you mean by awakening honest people out of a sound
-sleep?” growled the mole. “What is it? What do you want?”
-
-“I beg your pardon,” said the General as he lifted his hat and made a
-low bow; “I’m awfully sorry I disturbed your rest, but having heard of
-your reputation as an engineer I have come to beg your services for the
-Teenie Weenie army. We want to engage you to dig a trench for us.”
-
-“I’ll work for four fat white grubs a day and not a grub less,” snapped
-the mole.
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-“That’s quite satisfactory,” answered the General. “We are willing to
-pay whatever you ask, but I want you to know just what the work will be.
-We want you to dig a tunnel in the ground so we can explode a mine in
-it.”
-
-“I don’t care a snap of my tail what kind of work it is; all I want is
-my pay,” growled the mole.
-
-“When may we expect you?” asked the General.
-
-“To-morrow at four o’clock, not a minute sooner or later,” answered the
-mole.
-
-“Shall we have breakfast for you?” asked the General.
-
-“Why, certainly! Why, certainly!” exclaimed the mole. “How in the name
-of angleworms do you expect me to work without food? What do you suppose
-I’m workin’ for—pleasure?”
-
-“We’ll have a couple of nice young grubs for you,” said the General
-politely, although he was quite disturbed by the mole’s ungentlemanly
-manner.
-
-“Two grubs and a couple of angleworms would make me work better,”
-suggested the mole.
-
-“You shall have them,” answered the General stiffly. “Good day to you,
-sir.” Lifting his hat politely, he ordered the soldiers to march back to
-camp.
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-                     THE OLD SOLDIER’S WAR MACHINE
-
-
-At exactly four o’clock the next morning the mole came into camp, and as
-the General had promised, his breakfast was ready. After the mole had
-eaten his grubs, he reported for work. The General showed the mole just
-where he wanted the tunnel to run and immediately the old fellow set to
-work. He burrowed his nose down into the soft ground and then pushed the
-loosened earth back with his powerful fore claws. He worked wonderfully
-fast and in less than a minute he had entirely disappeared into the
-ground.
-
-All day long the mole worked, coming out only for a few minutes at noon
-to eat his lunch, and at half past five in the afternoon he again
-appeared to announce that the tunnel had been finished.
-
-The General sent the Sailor into the tunnel to measure it, for he wanted
-to be quite sure that it reached a point just under the wild men’s fort.
-
-“It’s just exactly eight hundred and fifty-eight feet long,” announced
-the Sailor when he crawled out of the tunnel a few minutes later. “I
-could hear the wild men walking on the ground above, so it must stop
-right in the middle of the fort.”
-
-“’Course it does,” snapped the mole. “Don’t you suppose I know how to
-dig?”
-
-When the mole had been paid for his work, he slipped off into the night
-without ever even thanking the Teenie Weenies for his pay.
-
-“Queer old surly fellow,” said the General as he watched the awkward
-mole waddle off.
-
-“Yes, but you have to admit that he is a wonderful engineer,” observed
-the Old Soldier.
-
-“Well, gentlemen,” said the General turning to his officers, “we have
-got to move our lines forward. You see, we are about eight hundred and
-fifty feet from the wild men’s fort and it is quite necessary that
-trenches be built forward so we will not have too great a distance to
-charge when we explode the mine under the enemy’s fort.”
-
-The officers all agreed with the General and that very night several men
-were sent out, when it was quite dark, to start the work.
-
-The little soldiers had gone but a short distance when they were seen by
-the wild men, who sent a shower of arrows at them, and Gogo was slightly
-scratched on the arm, while one of the wild men’s arrows splintered the
-Old Soldier’s wooden leg, so the General ordered the work stopped for
-the time being.
-
-The Old Soldier was quite an engineer and when he had whittled out a new
-wooden leg, he set to work trying to scheme out some way by which the
-men could dig the trenches without being hit by the wild men’s arrows.
-
-“I have it,” he cried after he had puzzled over the matter for a time.
-“We can make a big screen out of sticks, one that is quite arrow-proof.”
-
-“How are you going to move it?” asked the Turk. “It will be too heavy
-for the men to carry.”
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-“That will be easy,” smiled the Old Soldier. “There’s a spool of thread
-among our supplies and all we have to do is to remove the thread and—”
-
-“Use the spool as a sort of wheel to roll the screen on,” put in the
-Cook.
-
-“Right,” laughed the Old Soldier. “We can push it ahead of us on the
-spool and be quite safe from the wild men’s arrows.”
-
-The General ordered the screen made and at once, under the watchful eye
-of the Old Soldier, the men set to work building it. In a remarkably
-short time the screen was finished and early the next morning the Old
-Soldier, with six chosen men, started to push it toward the wild men’s
-fort.
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-As soon as the wild men saw the screen coming toward them, they let fly
-a shower of arrows, but they either stuck fast in the screen or flew
-harmlessly over the soldier’s heads.
-
-“Great Guns!” cried the Old Soldier when the little party had pushed the
-screen quite a ways toward the wild men’s fort. “We forgot to bring
-along the picks and shovels.”
-
-“I’ll get ’em, Captain,” said the Dunce, saluting the Old Soldier and
-hardly waiting for the officer’s permission, the Dunce ran for the
-trench which they had just left, as fast as his legs would carry him.
-
-The Dunce grabbed up three picks and with the help of the Chinaman who
-volunteered to go along, the two brave Teenie Weenies ran for the screen
-amid the flying arrows which whizzed all about them.
-
-All day long the men worked hard, pulling the screen along as they dug
-back toward the Teenie Weenie trench, and at night, six other soldiers
-took up the work where the rest left off. Several days of hard labor
-finished the work and not one Teenie Weenie had been shot, thanks to the
-Old Soldier’s screen.
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-                     THE DUNCE LOOKS FOR EXCITEMENT
-
-
-From the new trenches the Teenie Weenies could see the wild men’s fort
-plainly. The little soldiers had to be very careful, however, for every
-time they showed themselves the wild men would let fly a shower of
-arrows. The soldiers thought it great fun to put their hats on sticks
-and push them out in sight of the wild men. At first this brought a
-tremendous number of arrows, but finally the wild men caught onto the
-trick and only an occasional arrow would fly at the exposed hat.
-
-The men took turns guarding the front trenches. It was very tiresome
-work sitting in the narrow ditch waiting for something to happen and
-most of the soldiers would have welcomed the order to storm the wild
-men’s fort.
-
-“I can’t see why the General doesn’t get busy and take the fort,”
-growled the Scotchman one afternoon. Several of the men, who were off
-duty, were lying in a mossy place under some big ferns, discussing the
-matter. “We’ve got everything ready for the attack, the men are more
-than anxious to go into action and we could lick the stuffin’ out of the
-Saboes.”
-
-“Keep cool, Scotty; we’ll get a chance soon enough,” said the Turk, who
-was very quiet and always took things calmly. “The General knows what
-he’s about and when he gets his plans ready, we’ll get all the
-excitement we want.”
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-“Excitement!” exclaimed the Dunce. “That’s me. I’ve got to have some
-excitement; I’m sick and tired of sittin’ around here without anything
-doin’.”
-
-“Let’s get our guns and go out and see if we can’t shoot some dragon
-flies or mosquitoes,” suggested the Sailor.
-
-“Nah, that ain’t dangerous enough,” answered the Dunce. “I want to do
-something that will give me a thrill,” and getting up he slowly walked
-towards the tall grass near the Teenie Weenie camp.
-
-The General had given orders that none of the soldiers should leave
-camp, for the grass was so tangled and thick that it would be an easy
-thing to get lost and, besides, the savage wild men might be hiding
-behind the thick stalks of grass.
-
-“Jinks!” thought the Dunce as he peered into the dense grass, “the
-General wouldn’t scold me if I happened to stroll out there and capture
-a wild man.”
-
-After some minutes of thought, the Dunce hurried to his tent, got his
-gun and sneaked unseen out of camp into the dark grass. He stumbled
-along for some time without making much headway, for the stalks of grass
-grew close together and the dead leaves tangled about his feet at almost
-every step. Presently he came to an open spot near the edge of the
-island, where he found walking much easier, but he had gone only a short
-distance when he suddenly saw four wild men ahead of him.
-
-“Throw up your hands—you’re surrounded!” shouted the Dunce, pointing his
-gun towards them.
-
-The wild men, not understanding the Teenie Weenie language, started
-running towards the Dunce with loud yells.
-
-The poor Dunce was so badly frightened he forgot to fire his gun and
-turning about he ran as fast as his short legs could carry him towards
-the Teenie Weenie camp.
-
-The army aviator, who happened to be scouting above the shore of the
-island, saw the Dunce being chased by the wild men.
-
-“Quick!” he shouted to the bird on which he flew. “Fly just as close as
-you can to the Dunce and I’ll grab him as we sail by.”
-
-The bird flew straight for the ground and holding tight to its neck, the
-aviator grabbed the Dunce by the collar and snatched him from the very
-hands of the wild men.
-
-The Turk pulled the frightened Dunce up on the bird’s back and a few
-minutes later they landed safely in the Teenie Weenie camp.
-
-“Well, sir,” said the General when he had heard the Turk’s story of the
-rescue, “what were you doing outside the camp without permission to go
-out?”
-
-“I-I-I-I j-j-just wanted s-s-some excitement and I-I-I-I thought I’d go
-out and s-s-see if I-I-I couldn’t capture a wild man,” stammered the
-frightened Dunce.
-
-“Well, did you capture any of them?” asked the General with a wink at
-the Old Soldier.
-
-“W-w-w-well, I-I surrounded f-f-four of ’em, but they wouldn’t stay
-surrounded and they started to chase me, so I-I-I had to r-r-run.”
-
-“Well, did you get any excitement?” smiled the General.
-
-“Oh, yes, sir, I-I-I got more than I-I-I was looking for.”
-
-“Well, sir,” said the General, “I hope you got enough excitement to last
-you for a long time. You are guilty of an act of leaving camp without
-permission and I find it necessary to place you under arrest.”
-
-The poor Dunce was marched off between four soldiers to the tiny guard
-house, where he was left to think over his disobedience.
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-  THE ARMY AVIATOR SNATCHES THE DUNCE FROM THE HANDS OF
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-                           Chapter Twenty-One
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-                    THE SCOUTS HAVE A NARROW ESCAPE
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-“General, the men are getting restless. They want to get into action and
-it seems to me that we ought to hurry our plans for the attack,” said
-the Old Soldier. The two little officers were sitting at the tiny table
-in front of the General’s tent.
-
-“Yes, I believe you’re right,” answered the General thoughtfully. “The
-plans for the attack are almost ready, but I would like to get some more
-information about the wild men. I’d like to know just how many are
-guarding the fort, what sort of arms they have and a lot of other
-details. The Turk has been able to get much valuable information, but
-the grass is so tall around the fort that he has not been able to get
-very near in the airplane, so I’m afraid I’ll have to send the scouts
-out for the facts I want.”
-
-“That’s mighty dangerous,” said the Old Soldier, stroking his beard.
-“The jungle is full of the Saboes—they are swarming all through the
-grass, thicker than ants on a chocolate drop.”
-
-“Yes, I know it’s dangerous, but I believe the Cowboy and the Indian can
-get through unseen and bring back the information I want,” the General
-said. “Either one of the little fellows is at home in the woods and
-grass. They are both pastmasters in covering up their tracks. Why, I
-believe the Indian could walk through a lady’s powder box without ever
-leaving a single track,” and the General said it so earnestly there was
-no doubt but that he spoke the truth.
-
-Turning to the guard that stood near his tent, the General ordered him
-to bring the Indian and the Cowboy. “Tell them it is important and that
-I wish them to report at once.”
-
-In a few minutes the two scouts appeared and, clicking their tiny heels
-together, they saluted in the most approved military fashion.
-
-“You sent for us, sir?” said the Cowboy.
-
-“Yes,” answered the General, looking seriously at the sturdy little men.
-“I have a piece of work for you to do. First I want to tell you that it
-is mighty risky—in fact, it is extremely dangerous. I will not send you
-unless you are willing to go—you shall choose.”
-
-“We are ready to go,” answered the little scouts quietly, and their
-loyalty touched the General greatly.
-
-“I want you to go to the wild men’s fort and get all the information you
-can,” said the General. “Find out how many men they have, what sort of
-weapons they use, note the condition of their fort and get some idea of
-the ground beyond the fort. Get all the facts you can and report to me
-as soon as possible.”
-
-“Yes, sir,” answered the scouts and, saluting, they hurried to their
-tent, where they buckled on their tiny pistols. Next they each secured a
-supply of dried minnow and half a boiled bean, which they stuffed into
-their pockets.
-
-They slipped quietly out of camp and after a long and tiresome trip they
-finally drew near to the wild men’s fort. They could hear the voices of
-the wild men now and then and the two Teenie Weenies were forced to
-steal along with the greatest care. Presently they crawled up to a place
-quite near the fort where they could see the wild men every now and then
-through the long grass. The scouts watched the wild men for several
-hours and it was quite late before the little fellows could find a
-chance to crawl away safely and unseen.
-
-Several times on their way back to the Teenie Weenie camp the scouts
-were forced to hide under leaves and dry grass to keep from being
-discovered, and once they had to lie for almost an hour in a hollow
-stick, as several wild men stopped near them to rest.
-
-“It be heap much dark soon,” grunted the Indian as he peered through the
-grass at the sky.
-
-“We can never get back to camp before night and we couldn’t possibly get
-through this jungle in the dark, so we’ve got to find some place to
-spend the night,” whispered the Cowboy.
-
-The two Teenie Weenies found a deserted bird’s nest in a bush near by,
-and, climbing up the bush, they soon made themselves comfortable for the
-night.
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-Early in the morning the little scouts were awakened by voices, and
-looking over the edge of the nest, they saw several wild men coming
-towards the bush. The wild men stopped beneath the bush, where they soon
-made a fire and cooked pieces of frog ham for their breakfast.
-
-The two Teenie Weenies had eaten what little food they had brought with
-them the day before and as they smelled the delicious meat cooking it
-made them as hungry as bears. There were too many of the Saboes for the
-two scouts to fight, so they could do nothing but lie quiet until the
-wild men had gone. In a short time the wild men finished their breakfast
-and after talking in their strange language for a few minutes they
-hurried away.
-
-When the wild men had disappeared into the jungle of tall grass near by,
-the two scouts carefully climbed out of the nest and set off in the
-direction of the Teenie Weenie camp. Several times they had to hide
-behind sticks and leaves when the wild men passed near them, and once,
-three of the savage little fellows came so close to the spot where the
-scouts lay hidden that they thought they would surely be discovered. It
-was almost evening before the Cowboy and the Indian reached camp and the
-little fellows reported at once to the General. They gave the Commander
-of the Teenie Weenie army such valuable news that he at once called in
-his staff for a council of war.
-
-The little officers talked for a long time and when they finally came
-out of the General’s tent, it was very plain to see that something was
-about to happen. Officers dashed about the camp giving orders, the
-Doctor and the two nurses busied themselves around the tiny hospital,
-while Paddy Pinn spent much time with his Teenie Weenie cannon.
-
-Three of the soldiers carried two big firecrackers into the tunnel the
-mole had made. In fact, everyone was busy and the whole camp teemed with
-excitement, wondering as to what was to happen next.
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-                           Chapter Twenty-Two
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-                               THE BATTLE
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-Orders had been given to attack the wild men in the morning and most of
-the Teenie Weenie soldiers slept very little during the night. At
-daylight a thimbleful of hot cocoa and a supply of bread was brought
-into the front trenches and while the little soldiers ate, the artillery
-kept up a heavy fire on the wild men’s fort.
-
-At last the order was given to charge and the excited Teenie Weenies
-climbed out of their trenches and dashed for the fort.
-
-Although the soldiers’ tiny knees knocked together and their teeth
-chattered with fright, they went into battle with great eagerness,
-cheered by the voices of several meadow mice and bugs, who stood out of
-range of the wild men’s arrows.
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-It was a great victory. Probably the history of the battle can be better
-told by one who took part in it, so we shall hear the story from a
-letter written by Mr. Lover to his wife immediately after the battle.
-The tiny letter was written on a piece of very thin birch bark, about
-half the size of a postage stamp, but if you could see it under a
-powerful microscope you would read it, word for word, just as it appears
-on this page.
-
-    My dear Bab:
-
-    As the Indian is carrying the official news of the battle back
-    to Shoehurst, you will know before you open this letter that we
-    have won. It was wonderful and I will tell you all about it from
-    the very first. The wild men’s fort, which was made of strong
-    sticks, lay in a narrow path guarding the only open road to the
-    village, where the Lady of Fashion and Poet are held prisoners.
-    In order to get to the village we had to capture the fort. We
-    heard the night before that we were to storm the fort in the
-    morning and believe me, we didn’t sleep much; that is, I didn’t.
-    I was as nervous as a cat in a dog house.
-
-    Early in the morning the aviator flew over the fort and dropped
-    pepper bombs. These bombs are made out of red pepper tied up in
-    thin pieces of tissue paper and when they hit the ground they
-    break and scatter the pepper all around. While the wild men were
-    sneezing from the effects of the pepper, the artillery opened up
-    and sent a lot of shot into the fort.
-
-    Next, a big mine we had made under the fort was exploded. There
-    were two big firecrackers in it and, say, you ought to have seen
-    the sticks fly up in the air when that mine went off! Right
-    after the mine explosion we were ordered to charge and we jumped
-    out of the trenches and started on the run for the fort.
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-  THE TEENIE WEENIE ARMY DRIVES THE WILD MEN FROM THEIR
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-    We were almost halfway there when the Sailor, who was carrying
-    the flag, dropped with an arrow in his chest. The Dunce caught
-    up the fallen flag and putting his hat on top of the staff, he
-    yelled for us to follow. Everybody cheered, for we didn’t think
-    the Dunce had enough nerve to do such a brave thing.
-
-    The fort was badly wrecked by the explosion, so it wasn’t hard
-    to climb over it to get at the wild men. Most of the Saboes were
-    so scared they never tried to fight, but a few of them stood
-    their ground. They were quickly subdued, however. We captured
-    fourteen men; five of them are wounded, but the Doctor has them
-    in the hospital and he’ll fix them up all right.
-
-    Four of our men were wounded, but the Sailor is the only one who
-    was badly hurt. The Doctor says that he will pull through all
-    right.
-
-    We wanted to attack the wild men’s village, but the General
-    wouldn’t let us. He says we have got to take care of the wounded
-    and make our lines safe before we can go farther. Some of the
-    men seem to think that there will be very little fight left in
-    the wild men, for they were pretty well scared by our attack.
-    The Scotchman and I are doing guard duty; we have to guard the
-    prisoners. We are using an old bottle for a prison and it
-    certainly makes a good one; if we keep on getting prisoners
-    we’ll soon have a bottleful.
-
-    I do hope the General follows up the victory and goes right
-    after these wild men, so we can end this war, for I want to get
-    home to you and the children.
-
-    Well, I’ll have to stop now as the Indian is about ready to
-    start for Shoehurst. Tell the twins I have a nice string of
-    blackberry seed beads for each of them and give them each a kiss
-    for me.
-
-                   Affectionately,
-
-                        Your Husband.
-
-    P. S.: The Cook and the Chinaman have just brought up a pot of
-    cocoa and four hot beans! Hurrah! we’re going to have a feast.
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-                                                              Hubby.
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-                          Chapter Twenty-Three
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-                             THE RED CROSS
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-
-There was much confusion after the battle, for so many things had to be
-done, and done quickly. The lines had to be advanced and made safe
-against attack by the wild men. The prisoners had to be carefully
-guarded until they could be put into the grape juice bottle which was
-being used as a prison.
-
-Then, there were the wounded. Both Teenie Weenies and wild men had to be
-given the best of care. Just as soon as the battle was over, the injured
-were gathered up and carried tenderly to the Red Cross field hospital,
-where the Doctor and his two little nurses dressed their wounds. The
-Clown and the Policeman carried the wounded into the hospital on tiny
-stretchers and just as soon as the injured little fellows had medical
-care, they were put into clean beds. At first the injured wild men were
-much frightened, but when they were handled so tenderly by the Doctor
-and his lovely nurses, they became quite contented.
-
-The Doctor’s official report to the General gives the best idea of the
-work of the Red Cross after the battle, and it is printed here, word for
-word, from that tiny document.
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-                 TEENIE WEENIE RED CROSS FIELD HOSPITAL
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-    Commander in Chief,     Report No. 14.
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-          Teenie Weenie Army.
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-    Sir: I herein give to you a full detailed report of the Red
-    Cross work after the battle of Sabo:
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-                        =Teenie Weenies Injured=
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-    Sailor—Shot in the right breast with arrow, which was removed
-    after a hard operation, as the point had broken off between the
-    third and fourth ribs. Eleven stitches taken in wound. Patient
-    in bad shape but will recover.
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-    Dunce—Shot in hand; slight wound; will be all right in few days.
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-    Gogo—Two small wounds in right leg and left arm.
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-    Cowboy—Scratch on cheek from spear thrust.
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-                           =Wild Men Injured=
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-    No. 1—Serious wound in neck from rifle bullet; removed bullet
-    after much work; patient in bad shape.
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-    No. 2—Bad bayonet wound in side; will recover.
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-    No. 3—Piece of shell removed from back; nineteen stitches taken
-    in wound; will get well.
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-    No. 4—Painful scalp wound from being hit on head with butt of
-    gun; five stitches taken in wound.
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-    No. 5—Shot in shoulder; not dangerous.
-
-    I wish to bring to your notice the good work of my staff. I
-    commend them for their earnest and skillful help in taking care
-    of the wounded. The work of bringing in the wounded was promptly
-    done by the Policeman and the Clown in a manner that calls for
-    the highest praise.
-
-    Tess Bone and Sally Guff, my two excellent nurses, were of the
-    greatest service. Their tenderness in handling the injured was
-    of the highest order.
-
-    I wish also to bring to your notice the kindness of Peter
-    Meadowlark and Bouncing Ben, the jumping mouse. Peter Meadowlark
-    did much towards keeping the patients in a good frame of mind by
-    his daily songs. Every day he came to the hospital and sang for
-    the wounded.
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-    Bouncing Ben kept the sick laughing for hours by his funny
-    handsprings and somersaults. I owe much to these two
-    kind-hearted fellows for the good condition of my patients.
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-              Sincerely yours,
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-                   Surgeon General,
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-                        Teenie Weenie Army.
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-                          Chapter Twenty-Four
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-                           LET THERE BE PEACE
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-After the battle the front lines were moved quite a distance towards the
-center of the island, where the wild men’s village stood. A strong
-breastwork of sticks and grass was built and a most careful watch was
-kept at all times. Nothing was seen of the wild men except shadowy forms
-that every now and then dodged about among the stalks of big grass. They
-were surely in the tall grass, for the savage little fellows could slip
-about in the jungle almost unseen.
-
-It was quite certain that the General intended to move again in a short
-time, for everything was made ready for another battle.
-
-One morning the Scotchman, who was in the front lines, happened to see a
-wild man crawling along on his stomach towards a stick that lay in front
-of the Teenie Weenie breastwork. The tiny soldier raised his gun and
-waited, thinking the wild men were about to charge, but instead a blade
-of grass appeared above the stick and to it was tied a white rag.
-
-“Jinks!” exclaimed the Scotchman, lowering his gun, “the wild men are
-showing a flag of truce.”
-
-“Hold your fire, men!” shouted the Cowboy, who was in charge of the
-Teenie Weenie fort at the time. “They are sending out a flag of truce.”
-
-Presently the wild man crawled out from behind the stick and timidly
-made his way toward the Teenie Weenies.
-
-“What do you want?” asked the Cowboy, peering over the top of the fort.
-
-“Wap gee goo mah be gum,” answered the wild man as he approached the
-Teenie Weenies. Of course none of them could understand a word of this.
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-“Talk English, you goof,” cried the Cowboy. “I can’t understand that
-kind of talk.”
-
-The wild man carried a piece of folded birch bark in his hand and when
-he reached the fort he handed it over to the Cowboy. It was addressed to
-the General, and the Cowboy at once sent the note to him.
-
-When the note was delivered to the General, he found that it was from
-the Queen of the wild men, written by the Poet, and this is what he
-read:
-
-      Commander in Chief, Teenie Weenie Army. My dear General:
-
-    Her Royal Highness, Mooie, Queen of the wild men, sends
-    greetings. Her Highness wishes to talk over terms of peace with
-    you and suggests that you and your staff meet her at the stream
-    which crosses the path halfway between the Sabo village and your
-    camp. Her Highness awaits your pleasure and asks Your Excellency
-    to set a date for the meeting.
-
-                   Respectfully yours
-
-                        RUFUS RHYME.
-
-    P. S.—Although the Lady of Fashion and I have been closely
-    guarded since we have been prisoners, we have been very well
-    treated and I ask that you take this into consideration when you
-    arrange peace terms.
-
-                   R. R.
-
-The General answered the note at once, making arrangements to meet the
-Queen on the following day.
-
-The next day at the appointed time the General, the Old Soldier and a
-guard of eight soldiers marched off to the meeting place, where they
-found the Queen awaiting them.
-
-The Queen sat on her favorite turtle and she had with her several of her
-warriors and the Poet.
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-As the Teenie Weenies drew near, the Queen and her followers raised
-their left hands above their heads, which is the Sabo custom when
-friends meet. The Queen was the first to speak, and the Poet, who had
-learned the Sabo language while he was held prisoner, translated her
-words to the Teenie Weenies as follows:
-
-“O, great chief of the thunder wagon (the name, “Men of the Thunder
-Wagon,” was given to the Teenie Weenies on account of the cannon which
-the wild men said sounded like thunder), we have come here to ask for
-peace. We do not wish to fight; we ask only for the liberty of our
-brothers whom you hold prisoners. Give us back our brothers and we will
-return the Lady of Fashion and the Poet to you. We will also give you
-two hundred smoked frog hams for our brothers’ return.”
-
-“O queen of beauty and ruler of all the Saboes,” said the General when
-the Poet had finished, “we do not wish to fight, and we ask only for the
-return of our friends. For their safe return we will free your brothers.
-The hams you have offered we could not think of taking, for we took up
-arms against you, not for gain, but only for the freedom of the Lady of
-Fashion and the Poet.”
-
-The Queen was greatly pleased at the General’s words and arrangements
-were made for the exchange of the prisoners.
-
-That same day all the wild men, except the ones who were in the hospital
-and who were too sick to leave, were set free.
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-They were taken, under guard of several soldiers, to the stream where
-the General had met the Queen. The Lady of Fashion and the Poet were
-waiting for them and the Teenie Weenie soldiers gave three mighty cheers
-when they saw their friends. The prisoners were exchanged and the Lady
-of Fashion and the Poet were taken to the Teenie Weenie camp, where they
-were given a royal welcome.
-
-The Lady of Fashion was so happy to be again among her friends that she
-did a very ladylike thing—she cried. The nurses cried and several of the
-men were seen to blow their tiny noses and blink their eyes.
-
-“Oh, I’m so happy to be safe with you all again,” cried the Lady of
-Fashion as she hugged the General for the tenth time. “I don’t know what
-those nasty wild men captured us for, we never could find out, but I
-will say for them that they were very good to us.”
-
-“Well, we are mighty glad to have you with us again,” said the General.
-“And it’s through the loyalty of every soldier in our army that your
-rescue has been accomplished.”
-
-“I know it. I know it,” cried the little lady, and she hugged every
-single man in the army except the Chinaman, who was so embarrassed that
-he ran off and hid in a hollow log for nearly an hour.
-
-The two nurses took the Lady of Fashion to their tent, where she washed
-until she was as clean as a drop of dew.
-
-That night the army gathered around a roaring bonfire and eagerly
-listened to the Poet while he told them how he and the Lady of Fashion
-had spent their time as prisoners of the wild men. When he had finished,
-the little people sang songs, told stories and gossiped until after
-midnight, when the General ordered everyone to bed.
-
-“It’s so nice to sleep in a clean, honest-to-goodness bed again,” said
-the Lady of Fashion when she crawled into one of the tiny cots in the
-nurses’ tent, but she didn’t sleep a great deal, for the three little
-women had so much to talk about. They whispered and giggled until early
-morning.
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-                            THE PEACE DANCE
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-“Well, folks,” announced the General the next morning as he sat down to
-breakfast with several of his officers, the Lady of Fashion and the
-Poet, “we must make ready for the march home. We have a long journey
-ahead of us and we must get started as soon as possible.”
-
-“I don’t see how we can,” answered the Doctor, who was helping himself
-to a piece of frog ham. “The Sailor is in no condition to be moved and,
-besides, I still have a couple of the wild men on my hands, who are in
-such shape I can’t leave them for a few days.”
-
-“That’s so! That’s so!” exclaimed the General. “Of course we’ll have to
-stay until our duty is done.”
-
-“My patients are all doing well and I don’t see why we won’t be able to
-get away in five or six days,” said the Doctor.
-
-The little soldiers were greatly disappointed when they heard that the
-army would not start immediately for home, for now that the war was over
-they were all anxious to return. However, they made the best of their
-time by fishing, swimming and playing games.
-
-One morning a sentinel came to the General’s tent, followed by one of
-the wild men.
-
-“This fellow has a message for you,” said the sentinel pointing to the
-wild man, who held a piece of folded birch bark in his hand. “There are
-about twenty-five more of ’em waiting out beyond our lines and they’ve
-each got a big bundle all wrapped up in leaves.”
-
-The General opened the note which the wild man handed him, but when he
-found it was written in the Sabo language he sent for the Poet.
-
-“You’ll have to translate this gibberish for me,” said the General when
-the Poet appeared. “It’s too much for me.”
-
-The Poet carefully read the note and then repeated it to the General.
-
-“It’s from the Queen and she is sending you greetings and some
-presents,” said the Poet. “She also invites you to the great Dance of
-Peace and Plenty. This is the dance the wild men dance whenever they
-make peace with their enemies. You must go to the dance, for that is the
-way the wild men have of showing that they want to be friendly.”
-
-“All right,” answered the General; “tell her I’ll come. Thank her for
-the presents and give her my regards.”
-
-A number of soldiers were sent out to bring in the presents the Queen
-had sent and when they were unwrapped the little people were surprised
-to find a number of fat frog hams, a quantity of wild rice, a large jar
-of fruit paste made out of wild berries, many nut meats and sweet seeds.
-
-“We ought to send a present to the Queen in return for all this food,”
-said the General. “What shall we send her?”
-
-“Send her that thimble the Dunce ruined trying to make a suit of armor,”
-answered the Poet, who had heard the story of the Dunce’s armor.
-
-“Not that old thimble!” exclaimed the General.
-
-“Sure,” laughed the Poet. “She will think that it is wonderful!”
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-So the thimble was sent to the Queen, who prized it more than anything
-else she owned.
-
-On the appointed day the General set off for the dance with a number of
-the Teenie Weenies, and as they drew near the village they were met by a
-body of wild men who had been sent out as a guard of honor to escort the
-General into the village. He was led to a spot beneath a big bush where
-the Queen sat cross-legged on a wonderfully soft piece of cloth which
-had been thrown on the ground. Over her head hung another cloth which
-was fastened at the four corners to long poles held in the hands of four
-wild men.
-
-A great many wild men and women stood about an open spot under the bush,
-which had been swept until it was as clean as a pin. Many children ran
-about the place, some of them climbing onto the grass houses and into
-the trees. On the edge of the crowd stood several small animals, and
-some birds were perched in the bush overhead.
-
-The General made a low bow to the Queen and when she motioned for him to
-sit by her side, he sat down on the soft cloth. The Queen and the
-General talked for some time through the Poet, who translated for them.
-
-Presently the Queen gave a command to one of her warriors and instantly
-several men, who were sitting on the ground in front of the Queen, began
-to beat on drums. The drums were made out of a piece of hollow reed. The
-ends were covered with snake skin and they made a very pretty, mellow
-sound. Another man beat on a piece of wood which had been fixed to a
-split reed, while three or four women beat paddles together in time with
-the music.
-
-Instantly a number of voices broke into a loud song from behind a house
-near by and presently the dancers came hopping and prancing into the
-cleared spot before the Queen. First came a warrior with a long spear
-and when he danced directly in front of the Queen he broke the spear in
-two over his knee. Next came a man with a queer seed pod over his head
-and in one hand he carried a whip with which he struck the warrior every
-now and then. In the other hand he carried a dried seed pod which
-rattled loudly in time with the song. The next dancer wore a frog’s head
-and hopped in time with the music, much after the fashion of a frog.
-Several girls followed the frog man, carrying plates of smoked frog ham
-and rice cakes.
-
-“The first man in the dance,” explained the Poet to the General, “is the
-Spirit of War. He broke the spear to show you that the war was over and
-the next man rattled the seed pod and struck him with the whip to scare
-him away, which means that the wild men are through with war and wish to
-get rid of the War Spirit. The frog man represents the frog meat which
-the wild men eat, and his funny dance means that good times are coming,
-for you see the pretty girls follow with plates of rice cakes and meat.”
-
-The dancers performed for several minutes and then the man with the whip
-and rattle chased the Spirit of War over the hill out of sight, which
-meant that the Spirit of War was gone for good.
-
-After the dance a great fire was built and when a heap of hot ashes had
-burned, the wild men wrapped several frog hams in sassafras leaves and
-put them into the hot bed of ashes to roast. When the hams were cooked
-they were cut into slices and served to the Teenie Weenies and the wild
-men. Wonderfully delicious rice cakes were also served and the Teenie
-Weenies ate until they were quite filled. The greedy Dunce ate so much
-he became quite ill and had to be carried back to the Teenie Weenie
-camp, where the Doctor was kept busy most of the night putting heated
-buttons on his aching tummy, until the pain was gone.
-
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-                           Chapter Twenty-Six
-
-                                  HOME
-
-
-                    Put a bean on to boil, Mr. Cook!
-                    Put a bean on to boil, Mr. Cook!
-                      For an army, it must eat
-                      And rest its weary feet;
-                    So put on a bean, Mr. Cook!
-
-The Teenie Weenie soldiers sang this song as they sat about their tiny
-camp fire one evening shortly after the peace dance. They were all
-happy, for they were to start for home in the morning. The Sailor was
-now well enough to stand the long trip and that was all that had been
-holding them back.
-
-“He can stand the trip,” the Doctor said, “if he is carried in some way
-that will not jolt him. He was badly wounded and I wouldn’t care to have
-him ride in one of the army wagons, as they are much too rough.”
-
-“We can make a litter and get two mice to carry it,” suggested Tess
-Bone.
-
-“That’s a good idea,” said the Doctor. “He will rest that way in fine
-shape.”
-
-The Turk and the Old Soldier agreed to make the litter and in a short
-time they had built such a cozy one the Sailor was quite pleased with
-it.
-
-“Crickety!” exclaimed the Dunce when he saw the litter, “I wish I was
-wounded so I could ride in that instead of walkin’ all the way home.”
-
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-
-The army wagons were loaded and early in the morning the little army
-began the long journey home. First the cannon and then the baggage and
-wagons had to be moved across the river on the raft. It took the little
-people all day to move across the river, for many trips had to be made
-with the clumsy raft. But at the end of the day not a single Teenie
-Weenie was left on Sabo Island.
-
-As Queen Mooie had given the Teenie Weenies so many presents of frog
-hams, rice cakes, delicious seeds and many hickory nut meats, the little
-people were well supplied with good food. Every evening after the day’s
-march the happy little army ate their meal gathered around a glowing
-camp fire. They laughed and joked, sang songs, told stories and gossiped
-with the many birds and animals of the woods who gathered about the camp
-fire.
-
-Often the Teenie Weenies listened to a strange tale of the forest, told
-by some owl or chipmunk, and quite often the birds sang to them.
-
-One evening a wicked old weasel came prowling around the camp. The
-little folks were quite alarmed about it, for the old fellow hung around
-for a long time. They could see his wicked green eyes shining in the
-light from the camp fire and when the General asked him what he wanted,
-he never answered. At last the General told several of the soldiers to
-fire off their rifles.
-
-“Shoot in the air over his head and give him a good scare,” ordered the
-General. “I think that will fix him.”
-
-At the first sound of the guns the weasel quickly disappeared into the
-night and nothing more was seen of him, although the men kept a mighty
-close watch for several days.
-
-When the army came to the place where they had built the bridge, they
-found the squirrel whom they had hired to guard it, on duty.
-
-“Well, here I am,” shouted the squirrel. “And here is the bridge just as
-you left it.”
-
-“You have done your duty well,” said the General, and he ordered the
-Cook to pay the squirrel the ten sunflower seeds and the hickory nuts
-which had been promised him.
-
-“Well, I always believe in doin’ my duty,” said the squirrel. “If I
-agree to do a thing I always stick to my word—I’d rather lose every
-whisker I’ve got than go back on my word.”
-
-A bluejay who was sitting in a bush near by snickered and the squirrel
-gave him a nasty look. The Teenie Weenies thought for a minute that
-there might be a quarrel, but the bluejay flew off, so they felt much
-easier.
-
-After a pleasant talk with the squirrel, the General ordered the army to
-march on and as long as the Teenie Weenies were in sight the squirrel
-waved to them from the top of an old stump.
-
-The trip seemed to agree with the Sailor. He grew stronger and stronger
-under the watchful eye of the Doctor and the two dainty nurses. He was
-fed on broth and a tiny bit of poached bird’s egg each day, and as the
-army drew near home he was almost strong enough to walk.
-
-One day the Teenie Weenies were surprised to hear a bird shout to them
-from a bush over their heads and when they looked up they saw it was
-Tilly Titter, the English Sparrow—an old and trusted friend.
-
-Of course the General ordered a halt, while the men gathered around the
-sparrow and asked many questions.
-
-“How are the twins?” asked Mr. Lover.
-
-“Fine! Just fine!” cried the bird. “I was over to the village yesterday
-and they were playin’ foot ball with a gooseberry. They are as husky as
-a caterpillar in a mulberry bush. Your wife is as fat as butter; I’ll
-bet she has gained half an ounce since you left her.”
-
-After the Teenie Weenies had learned all the news from home the General
-gave a message to Tilly and asked her to deliver it to the Teenie Weenie
-village.
-
-“You can just bet your last fish worm I’ll carry that message as quick
-as I can,” said the bird. “Everyone in the village will be tickled to
-death to hear that you are so near home. Grandpa will be so ’appy ’e’ll
-shout ’imself ’oarse.”
-
-Spreading her wings, Tilly Titter flew into the air and quickly
-disappeared in the direction of the Teenie Weenie village.
-
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-                          Chapter Twenty-seven
-
-                            THE GRAND REVIEW
-
-
-Tilly Titter flew as she never flew before and in a short time she
-landed on the ground beside the shoe house, her feathers all ruffled up
-with excitement.
-
-“I’ve got news,” she shouted, as the little women gathered about her.
-“I’ve just come from the General and the army will be home in about
-three days.”
-
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-
-“Is my husband well?” shouted Mrs. Lover.
-
-“He’s as healthy as a dandelion and as pink as a rose bud,” answered
-Tilly.
-
-“How’s the Poet and the Lady of Fashion?” asked Grandpa.
-
-“Well and ’appy,” cried Tilly. “As I was a sayin’, the army will be ’ome
-in about three days. The General said to tell you that they would arrive
-on Friday afternoon if everthing goes well. He says for you to have a
-good supper ready for the boys and to have plenty, for they will be as
-hungry as young robins.”
-
-“Is the Sailor getting along nicely?” asked Miss Guff.
-
-“Fine as a fiddle! Fine as a fiddle!” answered the sparrow. “Wants to
-walk, ’e’s feelin’ so well, but the Doctor makes ’im stay in the litter
-and ride.”
-
-“Well, we have got to get busy and do somethin’ for the boys,” cried
-Grandpa. “We’ve got to give ’em a big feed and decorate the place with
-flags and show ’em we’re glad to see ’em.”
-
-“We’ll get up a grand supper for them,” cried Mrs. Lover, “and we’ll
-have a dance afterwards.”
-
-“I’ll bring over a big chunk of cheese,” cried the mouse that had joined
-the crowd.
-
-“I’ll get some fat worms for the supper,” cried Tilly, and instantly she
-blushed a deep brown. “Oh, I forget you don’t eat worms. Well, I’ll get
-some sunflower seeds.”
-
-“I’ll donate a few nuts,” said Nick, the squirrel, who had been hoping
-for a chance to speak.
-
-“Oh, I forgot to say that the General said ’e would come in ahead of the
-army so ’e could review them as they marched into the village,” cried
-Tilly.
-
-“He’s going to review the troops, did you say?” asked Grandpa, who was
-hard of hearing.
-
-“Yes!” shouted Tilly, right into the old gentleman’s ear. “The General
-is goin’ to review the army.”
-
-“Well, we got to get a reviewing stand ready for him,” cried Grandpa.
-
-“I’ll help,” shouted the mouse, “and I’ll get some mice to help, too.”
-
-“All right, get ’em!” cried Grandpa. “The sooner we get to work the
-better it will be.”
-
-In a short time the Teenie Weenies were as busy as bees in a clover
-field. The little women set to work cooking and baking. They made cakes
-and cookies by the thimble full. They made ginger cookies, nut cookies,
-chocolate cake, fruit cake and half an English walnut full of doughnuts,
-besides all sorts of other good things.
-
-Grandpa put eight mice, a chipmunk and half a dozen bugs to work getting
-the place ready for the returning soldiers. They cleaned up the rubbish
-under the rose-bush, they moved all the desks out of the schoolhouse,
-where the dinner and dance were to be held, and they made a reviewing
-stand out of the top of a candy box.
-
-Nick, the squirrel, worked hard opening nuts. He gnawed so many his
-teeth became sore, but he never complained, for he was a very patriotic
-squirrel and most fond of the Teenie Weenies.
-
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-
-The little folks decorated the village with Teenie Weenie flags and
-bunting and when the time arrived for the army to march home the village
-was crowded with all sorts of visitors. Bugs, mice, squirrels, birds,
-chipmunks, and even a few chickens and ducks, crowded under the
-rose-bush.
-
-The General rode in ahead of the army and took his place on the
-reviewing stand amid the wildest shouting and waving of flags, but when
-the troops came marching into view there was such a squealing of
-squirrels and mice and squawking of chickens, ducks and birds, one could
-hardly hear oneself think. Grandpa shouted so hard that he had one of
-his choking fits, and a mouse had to pound him on the back until he
-could get his breath.
-
-When the review was over there was much hugging and kissing and some
-crying, for most of the little women shed a few tears of happiness, but
-that’s a strange way women folks have of showing they are happy. One old
-hen cried so hard she had to be led away. A duck insisted on kissing the
-Dunce and a mouse hugged Paddy Pinn so hard it nearly broke his arm.
-
-After the little soldiers had visited for a time they were called into
-the old derby hat for supper and such a supper as they had! There was
-roasted bird’s egg, frog ham, escalloped hickory nut, walnut au gratin,
-creamed hearts of sunflower seed, water cress and wild cherry salad, and
-cakes and cookies and sliced grape and ice cream.
-
-When the little soldiers had eaten until they could not hold another
-morsel, the General arose from his seat at the head of the big table and
-made a speech.
-
-“Friends and men of the Teenie Weenie army,” he began, “I want to thank
-you for your loyal and hearty service. You have gone through hardships
-and you have risked your lives in battle without complaint. You have
-done this to aid those in trouble and nothing greater can be said of
-your deeds than that they were done willingly. Men, I am proud to have
-been your leader.”
-
-“Three cheers for the army!” shouted a mouse who had been helping to
-wait on table, and the cheers were given with a will.
-
-Next the Lady of Fashion made a little speech. She very prettily thanked
-the General and the army for having rescued the Poet and herself from
-the wild men and as she sat down there were tears in her pretty eyes.
-The Poet spoke and Grandpa made a speech about the great war in
-forty-two, but few heard what the old gentleman said, for they were
-anxious to talk to one another about the great events of the rescue of
-their friends.
-
-“Friends!” shouted Paddy Pinn, when Grandpa had sat down, “I think the
-Dunce ought to explain to the rest of us just why that old duck was so
-anxious to kiss him.” Every one yelled so loudly for the Dunce that he
-was forced to stand up, but he was so embarrassed he couldn’t speak a
-word and the Teenie Weenies laughed so hard they cried.
-
-When the tables had been cleared away the orchestra started playing and
-in a few minutes the little folks were swinging around to the music of
-“The Lady of Fashion Waltz.” They danced until nearly morning—in fact it
-was broad daylight when the tired little soldiers crawled into their
-tiny beds, every one of them mighty thankful that they were safely home
-again.
-
-              “The war is over, our duty is done;
-               Hang up the pistol, the sword and the gun.”
-
-               Rufus Rhyme,
-
-                    _Teenie Weenie Poet_.
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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 60611 ***
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  This Book Belongs To—
+]
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  “FRIENDS,” SAID THE GENERAL, ADDRESSING THE CROWD, “I HAVE TERRIBLE
+    NEWS!”—_Chapter One_.
+]
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+
+                                  The
+
+                             TEENIE WEENIES
+
+                            IN THE WILDWOOD
+
+
+                                   BY
+                            WILLIAM DONAHEY
+
+[Illustration]
+
+                             Illustrated by
+                               THE AUTHOR
+
+
+
+
+                          The Reilly & Lee Co.
+                                Chicago
+
+
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  Copyright, 1923, by
+  THE REILLY & LEE CO.
+  ———
+  All Rights Reserved
+  ———
+  PRINTED IN
+  THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
+]
+
+
+
+
+Mr. Donahey is of the staff of The Chicago Tribune, and to that
+newspaper the author-artist and the publishers extend thanks for
+courtesies in connection with the publication of this book.
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                            LIST OF CHAPTERS
+
+
+               Chapter                                  Page
+
+                  1 Alarming News                       7
+
+                  2 The Captured Teenie Weenies        11
+
+                  3 Campaign Preparations              16
+
+                  4 A Warning in Camp                  20
+
+                  5 The Queen of the Wild Men          24
+
+                  6 The Storm                          26
+
+                  7 A Suspension Bridge                29
+
+                  8 A Badly Frightened Army            33
+
+                  9 The Captives Attend a Dance        36
+
+                 10 Help from a Ground Robin           39
+
+                 11 The Poet Learns Sabo               44
+
+                 12 Gogo’s Brave Act                   48
+
+                 13 The Attack                         52
+
+                 14 On the Wild Men’s Island           56
+
+                 15 A Council of War                   59
+
+                 16 Wild Men Bottled Up                63
+
+                 17 The Dunce in Disgrace              66
+
+                 18 Consulting an Engineer             70
+
+                 19 The Old Soldier’s War Machine      74
+
+                 20 The Dunce Looks for Excitement     79
+
+                 21 The Scouts Have a Narrow           83
+                    Escape
+
+                 22 The Battle                         89
+
+                 23 The Red Cross                      92
+
+                 24 Let There Be Peace                 96
+
+                 25 The Peace Dance                   103
+
+                 26 Home                              109
+
+                 27 The Grand Review                  114
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+                           The Teenie Weenies
+                            In the Wildwood
+
+
+
+
+                              Chapter One
+
+                             ALARMING NEWS
+
+
+The Teenie Weenies had known for some time that a tribe of tiny wild men
+lived in a big swamp many teenie weenie miles from the shoe house. Field
+mice and birds had carried the news of these strange little people to
+the Teenie Weenies. The wild men lived in the heart of a big forest and
+they spoke a language quite different from the Teenie Weenies.
+
+“These wild men are very cruel,” a friendly bird told the Teenie
+Weenies. “They are called Saboes, or frog eaters, and they would just as
+soon destroy a person as look at him.”
+
+“Well, they will never hurt us,” the General said, “for we shall leave
+them alone and, besides, they live a great distance from the shoe
+house.”
+
+“Well, you’d better watch out for them; there are a great many of these
+wild men and you can never tell when they might come along,” said the
+bird, who was a mourning dove and always looked on the dark side of
+things.
+
+The Teenie Weenies didn’t worry about the wild men much, for they lived
+so far away and, besides, there was the Teenie Weenie army ever ready to
+protect them against an enemy. But the little people soon had cause for
+worry, for a dreadful thing happened.
+
+One afternoon a snail raced slowly up to the shoe house with alarming
+news—the Lady of Fashion and the Poet had been captured by the wild men!
+
+“Gracious!” gasped the General. “How did you find this out?”
+
+“I-I-I-I saw them captured,” answered the snail. “The wild men took them
+and put them in their boat and paddled down the creek. There must have
+been five or six of the wild men. They all had bows and arrows and
+spears too, and they looked terribly fierce.”
+
+“Ring the bell,” cried the General. “We’ll have a great council and see
+what can be done.”
+
+Several of the Teenie Weenies ran to the old derby hat which served the
+little people as a school house and armory, and began furiously to ring
+the tiny bell. All the birds and animals who lived near the little
+village knew that when the bell rang long and loud it was a signal for
+them to come. In a few minutes, two birds flew under the rose bush where
+the village stood and one by one, several mice, a squirrel and a couple
+of intelligent-looking bugs appeared.
+
+“Friends,” said the General, addressing the assembled crowd, “I have
+terrible news! The Lady of Fashion and the Poet have been captured by
+the wild men. This—this snail here has just brought the report.”
+
+The Teenie Weenies and their friends were much shocked by the news,
+while the snail strutted about, feeling quite important at being the
+bearer of such an exciting message.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“When did this happen?” asked the mouse with a squeaky voice.
+
+“About five or six hours ago,” answered the snail. “I was walkin’ near
+the creek when—”
+
+“Five or six hours ago!” shouted the General, turning on the snail. “For
+the land’s sake, why didn’t you come immediately?”
+
+“I-I-I did,” answered the snail, with an injured expression. “I came
+just as fast as I could crawl.”
+
+“Of course you did,” said the General kindly. “I beg your pardon. I
+forgot for the moment that you do not move as fast as most of us.” The
+snail, who had rather a sensitive nature, was quite hurt by the
+General’s words and it instantly shrank back into its shell.
+
+After some talk it was decided to scatter up and down the creek in
+search of the lost Teenie Weenies. The birds flew up and down the creek
+until it was quite too dark for them to see, while the little people and
+the rest of their friends hunted all through the night without a sign of
+the Lady of Fashion and the Poet.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                              Chapter Two
+
+                      THE CAPTURED TEENIE WEENIES
+
+
+While the Teenie Weenies were searching along the creek for the Lady of
+Fashion and the Poet, those two little people were being rapidly paddled
+down the stream and away from their friends.
+
+The Lady of Fashion and the Poet had gone to the bank of the creek for a
+picnic. They had eaten their lunch and the Lady of Fashion suggested
+that they walk down the stream in search of wild flowers. They had only
+gone a little ways when the wild men, who had been watching them,
+suddenly leaped upon them from behind a big bush. In a few seconds the
+wild little fellows had carried their tiny prisoners to their canoe,
+after having securely bound their hands behind them. Lifting the Teenie
+Weenies into the boat the wild men jumped in after them and began to
+paddle down the creek.
+
+“This is a pretty bag of seeds,” moaned the Poet as the boat shot
+rapidly down the stream. “It’s hard to tell what will become of us now.”
+
+“If—if we could just get word to the General,” whispered the Lady of
+Fashion, “he’d bring the army and come after these—these wild men and
+rescue us.”
+
+“There’s no chance of writing a note and dropping it somewhere, with our
+hands tied behind us.”
+
+“I’ll tell you what we can do,” whispered the Lady of Fashion. “If we
+should see a bird we can call to it and ask it to tell the General that
+we have been captured.”
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But the two Teenie Weenies never came close enough to a bird all that
+day, for the wild men paddled their canoe near the shore of the creek
+under the cover of the overhanging ferns and grass.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  THE QUEEN OF THE WILD MEN, SITTING ON THE BACK OF HER TURTLE.—_Chapter
+    Five._
+]
+
+As the canoe floated along down the stream the Lady of Fashion and the
+Poet spent their time studying the strange little wild men, or Saboes,
+as they were called. They were sturdily built little chaps, but a trifle
+smaller than the Teenie Weenies. They had dark brown skins, bushy hair,
+and around their fierce-looking eyes were painted circles of white. One
+or two of the wild men wore shirts with skirts almost to their knees,
+but the most of them were dressed only in trousers which were made from
+the skins of young frogs. Their spears were made of long sticks with a
+sharp fish bone tied to the end, and several of them carried bows and
+arrows, while their war clubs were made by fastening sharp blackberry
+thorns to a short handle. Many of the little wild men wore strings of
+beautifully carved raspberry beads about their necks and arms, which the
+little fellows called “gum gum,” the Sabo name for money.
+
+The canoe, which the little men paddled very skillfully, was made from a
+huge cucumber, and on the end of the boat was painted a queer face. This
+face was supposed to look like a cat and was meant to frighten the
+Saboes’ enemies.
+
+When evening came on and it began to grow dark, the wild men stopped on
+a sandy beach, where they made the two Teenie Weenies understand by
+motions that they would rest a while.
+
+Several of the Saboes bent over the stem of a tall dandelion, while one
+of the little men gathered an armful of the soft, fluffy down, which he
+put on the ground and covered with dry grass and sticks. He then took
+two sticks and rubbed them together so hard that they grew very hot and
+soon a spark fell into the dandelion down, which blazed up and quickly
+set fire to the grass and sticks.
+
+Presently two of the wild men, who had disappeared in the direction of
+the creek, returned and one of them carried the leg of a frog over his
+shoulder. The little men cut the leg into great chunks almost as big as
+a pea and these were soon roasting over the fire.
+
+The Lady of Fashion and the Poet sat on a log beside the fire and
+although the Lady of Fashion tried hard to keep from crying, every now
+and then a tear would trickle down her tiny cheek.
+
+“Don’t worry,” said the Poet. “The General will find some way to come to
+our rescue. He won’t let any harm come to us.”
+
+“I-I-I s-s-s-suppose so,” sobbed the little lady. “But I-I-I haven’t a
+clean handkerchief and—and—and my hair is a sight!”
+
+In spite of the fact that the Teenie Weenies were terribly worried, the
+roasting meat smelled wonderfully good and when it was done the
+prisoners’ hands were untied and they were each given a piece. Both ate
+a good portion and agreed that it was delicious. They wiped their
+fingers on a leaf and then the wild men tied their hands again and made
+them understand that they were to sleep.
+
+All night long the wild men kept up a bright fire. They took turns
+sleeping and watching their prisoners, but the two Teenie Weenies needed
+very little watching, for they were quite tired out with the day’s
+experience and slept most of the night.
+
+At the very first break of day the wild men were awake and after a
+hurried breakfast of frog ham and a blackberry which one of the men
+found, they once more pushed out in the canoe and paddled down the
+stream.
+
+Two days later they landed on the island where the wild men lived. When
+the two Teenie Weenies stepped out of the canoe a great number of the
+wild little people came running toward them. The women and children
+stared at them in great astonishment, while the men danced and swung
+their clubs and spears in a most terrible way.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                             Chapter Three
+
+                         CAMPAIGN PREPARATIONS
+
+
+All night long the Teenie Weenies searched without success for the
+captured Lady of Fashion and the Poet. The Indian found the spot where
+they had been surprised and taken. Their tiny footprints and the tracks
+of the wild men, as well as the spot where the canoe had been pushed
+into the water, showed plainly in the moist sand.
+
+“Him wild man, him get good start,” grunted the Indian after he had
+studied the footprints for some time. “We no catch ’um before him get
+home.”
+
+“I’m afraid not,” answered the General. “If that slow-poke snail had
+been a little faster we might have caught them.”
+
+“Ugh!” was all the Indian said.
+
+When all the Teenie Weenies had returned to the little village after the
+search, the General called a meeting.
+
+“Men,” he began, “we have got to do something and do it quickly!”
+
+“Call out the army, why don’t you?” shouted an excited mouse that had
+joined the crowd.
+
+“I believe we’ll have to,” answered the General. “I hate to use the
+army, but I don’t see what else we can do. These wild men are very
+savage and I have been told that there are many of them. If we go after
+the Lady of Fashion and the Poet, we are going on a hard and dangerous
+mission. We will have many long miles to march and there—there may be
+fighting. Now, men, I will put it to a vote. All those in favor of
+sending the army after the wild men in order to free our friends will
+say ‘yes.’”
+
+“Yes!” shouted every single Teenie Weenie, so loudly that they made the
+leaves tremble on the old rose bush overhead.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The little people started at once to prepare for the trip into the
+forest, for it was there that the wild men lived. It takes a great deal
+of work to outfit an army and the little men were soon buzzing about as
+busy as bees.
+
+Two squirrels offered their services, but the General was forced to
+refuse them, for they were such big eaters that the army could not
+afford to feed them.
+
+Several mice were hired to pull the wagons and the cannons and also for
+the officers to ride.
+
+A great quantity of food and tools had to be brought out and loaded into
+the wagons. It took seven hundred grains of wheat, six hundred grains of
+corn, thirty raisins, six dried prunes, fifty-eight beans, to say
+nothing of cocoa, salt, pepper, baking powder, picks, shovels, pulleys,
+ropes, tents, a great quantity of cheese for the mice-horses and many
+other things.
+
+It was quite late that night before the wagons were loaded and most of
+the little soldiers slept in their uniforms, for the army was to start
+into the forest soon after daylight.
+
+The army was to be made up of a division of ten infantrymen, two
+artillerymen, two mounted scouts, two cooks, a doctor and two nurses.
+
+The General was in command, with the Old Soldier as chief of staff,
+while Paddy Pinn had command of the artillery.
+
+When the little soldiers had said their last good-byes, the men stepped
+into line and at the gruff command of the General they swung away
+towards the great forest in which the wild men lived. The Indian and the
+Cowboy, mounted on mice, rode ahead of the army and picked out the best
+and easiest road for the soldiers, while the Turk, who was chosen as the
+aviator, flew above the army on the back of a bird, ever watchful for
+enemies.
+
+At noon the army halted for lunch beneath the shade of a lilac bush,
+where each man eagerly devoured the grain of baked wheat which had been
+given to each soldier that morning as his ration.
+
+After they had rested a bit, and when they had filled their tiny
+canteens with water from an old tin can, the command was given to “fall
+in.” Once more the army took up the march.
+
+The army had a hard time that afternoon, for the road it traveled was
+very rough. The little soldiers had to stop every now and then to chop
+weeds and dandelions from the road so the wagons and cannon could pass.
+Late in the afternoon the Turk told the General he had sighted an
+excellent place for a camp, and all the tired little chaps were made
+very happy when the order was given to make camp for the night.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                              Chapter Four
+
+                           A WARNING IN CAMP
+
+
+The first day’s march was very hard on the soldiers, for the sun was hot
+and the little fellows were not used to such long tramps. When the order
+came for the army to break ranks and make camp ready for the night, the
+soldiers worked with a will unloading the wagons and putting up the
+tents. The kitchen tent was put up first so the Cook and the Chinaman
+would lose no time in getting dinner ready for the hungry army.
+
+The mice that pulled the army wagons were given a good feed of cheese
+and they were quartered in a hollow tree for the night. The airplane ate
+ten grains of bird seed and hopped onto the limb of the bush under which
+the tiny camp lay.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+When the camp had been put in order for the night, mess call was sounded
+and the soldiers formed in line with their tin plates. The Cook had
+prepared two boiled beans and a thimbleful of corn soup for the army.
+Each man was given a plate of soup, a big spoonful of bean and a large
+piece of bread.
+
+After dinner the little soldiers gathered on the bank of a puddle of
+water, where they bathed their aching feet, while others took off their
+uniforms and enjoyed a good swim. The foolish Dunce dived head first
+into the pool without first testing the water to see how deep it was and
+he nearly broke his silly neck, for the hole was only three Teenie
+Weenie feet (a little over an inch and a half) deep.
+
+“Believe me!” exclaimed the Dunce after he was pulled out of the water
+and sat on the bank rubbing a big bump on his head, “I’m through diving.
+I wouldn’t dive into a teacup full of water even if I could see the
+bottom.”
+
+The General decided to let the army rest for a day, as the soldiers all
+complained of sore feet and, besides, one of the horses was bothered
+with a lame leg, which had been hurt in a mouse trap a few days before.
+The men were given a little light rifle practice, while Paddy Pinn tried
+out the cannon at long range shooting, bringing down a dandelion in
+three shots at the remarkable range of four hundred and twenty Teenie
+Weenie feet (17 feet in our measurement).
+
+The noise of the cannon attracted the attention of many birds,
+squirrels, bugs and field mice, who gathered around the edge of the camp
+with wide-open eyes.
+
+“What’s the trouble?” asked a bright-eyed chipmunk. “Is there a war or
+somethin’?”
+
+“No,” answered the General kindly. “We are on our way to rescue a couple
+of Teenie Weenies who have been stolen by the wild men who live in the
+heart of the big woods.”
+
+“Well, you’d better go back,” warned the Chipmunk. “Those wild men are a
+bad lot and they are as thick as bees in clover time.”
+
+“We are not afraid,” answered the General. “We will keep on until we
+have rescued our friends.”
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“All right! All right!” said the Chipmunk solemnly. “I wouldn’t give a
+wormy chestnut for your lives, but that’s your choosing, not mine. Let
+me tell you one thing—don’t forget that I warned you.”
+
+“Thank you just the same for your advice,” said the General, “but we
+must go on.”
+
+“All right!” muttered the Chipmunk. “But remember I warned you.” And
+shaking his head wisely he scampered off into the thick weeds.
+
+The little soldiers rolled themselves up in their tiny blankets almost
+immediately after supper and almost before the sun had disappeared over
+the western hills they were sound asleep, for they were to be up and
+well on the march before daylight again would appear.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                              Chapter Five
+
+                       THE QUEEN OF THE WILD MEN
+
+
+Although the wild men who had captured the Lady of Fashion and the Poet
+were good to them, the two Teenie Weenies nevertheless were much alarmed
+as to what might happen, for the wild men kept their captives’ hands
+securely tied, and they watched them closely at all times.
+
+When the wild men brought the two Teenie Weenies to the island where the
+savages lived, the captives were the center of much interest.
+
+The Sabo men and women came swarming down to the water’s edge from all
+directions. They shouted and jabbered in a language the Lady of Fashion
+and the Poet had never before heard. Some came gliding out of the tall
+grass, while others peered from behind bushes and pebbles, quite as
+though they were a little afraid of the two helpless Teenie Weenies.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The women were curious little people. They were dressed in short dresses
+which came down to their knees and the cloth was woven out of
+thistledown and was wonderfully soft. The women dressed their hair in a
+strange manner. The Lady of Fashion could hardly keep from laughing at
+them, for it was coiled up to a point high in the air, shaped much like
+an ice cream cone. Most of the men were dressed in frogskin trousers,
+while the children wore bits of cloth about their waists.
+
+The men and women gathered around and carefully examined the clothes of
+the two Teenie Weenies, especially the Poet’s glasses, which were
+considered very wonderful by the wild little people.
+
+After a time the Lady of Fashion and the Poet were led along a path
+toward the center of the island, followed by a great crowd of Saboes.
+Presently one of the wild men who was walking ahead suddenly dropped to
+his knees and kissed the ground. Looking up, the two Teenie Weenies saw
+a very big turtle with a very short, fat woman sitting on its back. A
+man who walked beside the turtle with a hook in his hand, gave the
+turtle a sharp blow on the nose and the big fellow pulled his head into
+his shell and stopped.
+
+“Well!” exclaimed the Lady of Fashion. “I wonder who this fine lady can
+be.”
+
+“Why, why, this must be a sort of queen,” answered the Poet. “Maybe she
+is the queen of the wild men.”
+
+The Poet had guessed correctly. The fat lady on the turtle was no other
+than Her Royal Highness, Queen Mooie, ruler of the wild men.
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                              Chapter Six
+
+                               THE STORM
+
+
+Before the sun had time to peep over the eastern hills the third
+morning, the little army was on the march. All day the soldiers tramped
+along, stopping every now and then to rest a few minutes beneath the
+shade of a friendly dandelion or burdock. All along the line of march
+many bugs, ants and birds gathered by the roadside to cheer the brave
+little army as it trudged by.
+
+“General,” said the Turk, as he slid off the back of the airplane, “it
+looks to me as though we were going to have a storm and I would suggest
+that you lose no time in finding a dry place to house the army.”
+
+“All right,” answered the General, “I’ll order the Indian to ride ahead
+and select a place to camp.”
+
+Even as the General spoke, the little soldiers heard the distant rumble
+of thunder, and the Indian, putting spurs to his mouse, quickly bounded
+away in search of a camp. Presently he returned with the good news that
+he had found a fine place to weather the storm.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A hollow log had been selected for the camp and the little men soon
+pulled the cannon and army wagons into the dark hole. In a short time
+the storm broke with great fury and it was a mighty good thing that the
+little army was protected by the hollow log, for the burdock leaves
+under which the Teenie Weenies always sought shelter from the rain would
+have been a poor place in such a big storm. The poor mice who pulled the
+army wagons trembled in terror at the loud peals of thunder. The Dunce
+shook so much with fright he almost loosened the buttons of his uniform.
+
+The storm passed quickly and the General ordered the army to be on its
+way, but the marching was hard and the men made slow progress, for the
+ground was muddy. The army marched around most of the mud holes, but one
+was too long and they were forced to wade through the thick mud. Most of
+the soldiers got over safely, but one of the wagons stuck in the mud and
+to make things worse, one of the back wheels was broken in trying to
+pull it out.
+
+“This is a pretty pickle!” growled the Old Soldier, sliding off his
+mouse at the edge of the puddle. “We’ll have to work fast to get this
+wagon out before dark.”
+
+“We might just as well unload the wagon, for we will never be able to
+pull it out while it’s loaded,” said the General.
+
+As the mud was quite deep, several of the soldiers were ordered to put
+on bathing suits and carry the baggage to solid ground. After much hard
+work the wagon was finally pulled out of the mud, although it took half
+the army and six of the mice to do it. As it was quite late in the
+afternoon, the army went into camp, while the Turk and the Old Soldier
+set to work to mend the broken wheel.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  THE TEENIE WEENIE CAPTIVES VIEW THE FIRE-DANCE OF THE
+  WILD MEN.—_Chapter Nine._
+]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                             Chapter Seven
+
+                          A SUSPENSION BRIDGE
+
+
+The General fumed and fussed over the delay caused by the broken wheel.
+
+“It’s just one thing after another,” he grumbled. “If it isn’t one thing
+it’s something else.”
+
+“Well, General, it won’t do a bit of good to worry,” said Tess Bone, one
+of the Red Cross Nurses. “We’ll have to do the best we can and that’s
+all anybody can do—even a Teenie Weenie can’t do more.”
+
+“Of course, of course,” answered the General, as he paced up and down
+before his tiny tent. “I know it doesn’t do a bit of good to worry, but
+we must hurry if we ever expect to rescue the Lady of Fashion and the
+Poet.”
+
+The anxious General had the army up before daylight the next morning.
+They ate a hurried breakfast and were well on the way before the sun
+came up. In fact, the Dunce marched nearly an hour before he was fully
+awake.
+
+The big rain of the day before had left many puddles along the way and
+the little army often had to splash through them.
+
+With the help of the scouts, the army was able to find the best roads,
+for the Indian and the Cowboy, mounted on mice, rode ahead and picked
+out the best path. The Turk was of much help, too, in picking out the
+best roads, for he was able to see a great distance from the back of his
+bird airplane.
+
+“General,” said the Cowboy one afternoon as he rode up to the commander
+of the little army, “I believe there’s more trouble ahead of us.”
+
+“What!” shouted the General. “Great guns, now what’s the trouble?”
+
+“Well, sir, there’s a stream of water and I’m afraid we’ll be forced to
+march a long way out of our road before we can find a place shallow
+enough to cross. I talked to a field mouse who seemed to be familiar
+with the country, and he said there was no place where the stream could
+be crossed for many miles in each direction.”
+
+“I hope, sir, you were careful not to say where you were going,” said
+the General. “We are now nearing the land of our enemies and we are
+liable to meet with a spy at almost any time.”
+
+“I was mighty careful, sir, and told him nothing that might be used
+against us,” answered the Cowboy.
+
+The General ordered the Turk to fly up and down the stream on a scouting
+trip while the army stopped for lunch. Late in the afternoon the Turk
+reported to the General that they would have to take a two days’ march
+out of their road to a place where the stream could be crossed. The army
+pushed on and shortly after dark stopped near the stream, where camp was
+made for the night.
+
+The next morning the Doctor, the Old Soldier, Paddy Pinn and the General
+gathered on the banks of the raging stream to see what plan could be
+made for crossing the water.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The banks were very steep and the water was quite too swift to ford,
+although the stream was only two feet wide (in our measurement). It was
+finally determined that there was nothing to do but build a bridge.
+
+“We can throw a sort of suspension bridge across the stream,” said the
+Old Soldier, who was quite an engineer. “It will take us about a day and
+a half to do the work, but we will save time, for it would take fully
+two or three days to march to a place where we could cross without a
+bridge.”
+
+The war council thought the Old Soldier’s idea a good one and the
+General ordered the men to start work at once. Pulleys and ropes were
+brought out of the army wagons and some big logs for supports were cut
+from a bush near by. Several cattails, which grew near the stream, were
+sawed up into logs for the floor of the bridge. The bird airplane
+carried the workmen and ropes to the other side of the stream, where
+work was soon started on a bridge fifty-two Teenie Weenie feet long.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                             Chapter Eight
+
+                        A BADLY FRIGHTENED ARMY
+
+
+It took a lot of hard work to build the big bridge. Every single Teenie
+Weenie worked with might and main. Even the mice who pulled the wagons
+and cannon, helped the work along by dragging the heavy logs up to the
+place where the bridge was being built.
+
+The little army was a full day and a half building the bridge and when
+the task was finished the wagons were loaded, the mice hitched to them,
+and led by the General, the army marched safely across the bridge.
+
+A big squirrel who lived in a tree near by was hired to watch the
+bridge.
+
+“We may want to get across this stream in a hurry,” the General told the
+squirrel. “If the wild men should push us back to this stream, and the
+bridge is destroyed, we certainly will be in a pretty pickle.”
+
+“I’ll guard it with my life,” answered the squirrel, who had been
+promised ten sunflower seeds and four hickory nuts for his work.
+
+The army once more took up the march and presently they drew nearer and
+nearer the forest. Great bushes overhung the path along which the
+soldiers marched. Tall, bright-colored toadstools grew by the wayside
+and everything was dark and mysterious.
+
+At noon the army was halted for lunch. The little soldiers sat on the
+soft moss under a big fern and each man ate the grain of boiled rice and
+bit of dried raisin which he had tucked into his tiny haversack that
+morning.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+When the men had eaten, the General ordered them to fall into line and
+stepping in front of them he said: “Men, I have been informed by our
+aviator and by our scouts that we are rapidly drawing near the land of
+the wild men, so from now on straggling will not be permitted. Soldiers
+wandering away from the army run the chance of being captured and we
+will soon have need of all our brave men.”
+
+The General’s talk impressed the little soldiers, and the Dunce and
+Gogo, who often wandered away from the line of march, were very much “on
+the job” all afternoon.
+
+As the army marched beneath a bush, late in the day, it suddenly came
+face to face with a small garter snake that lay near a big stone.
+
+“O-O-O-O-O-oh, j-j-j-imminie C-c-c-c-christmas!” screamed the Dunce.
+
+The mouse on which the General rode gave one frightened look at the
+snake and quickly ran up the bush, dumping the dignified General off on
+his Teenie Weenie head. The rest of the army fled in all directions, in
+spite of the Old Soldier, who tried with all his might to stop the
+frightened soldiers. The snake was almost as badly scared as the army
+and it wriggled into a hole near by with remarkable speed.
+
+“Well, this is a fine army, I must say!” growled the General when the
+Old Soldier had finally got the soldiers back in line. “If you men run
+at the sight of a little snake, what will you do when you face real wild
+men?”
+
+“Pardon me, sir,” said Gogo, saluting the General. “We-all don’t mind
+fightin’ the wild men, but—we-all done object to bein’ et.”
+
+“Forward, march!” shouted the General, and the little army moved on
+towards the wild men’s land.
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                              Chapter Nine
+
+                      THE CAPTIVES ATTEND A DANCE
+
+
+While the Teenie Weenie soldiers were gallantly marching to the rescue
+of their little friends, the Lady of Fashion and the Poet were being
+kept prisoners in one of the funny little houses of the wild men.
+
+Queen Mooie, ruler of the Saboes, was a very fat little lady, and like
+all fat people, big or little, she was very good-natured. When the Lady
+of Fashion and the Poet were brought before her, she was much interested
+in them and she made a long speech to the two Teenie Weenies in her
+strange language, but not one word could the little people understand.
+
+The house in which the Lady of Fashion and the Poet were kept was built
+up on posts about six Teenie Weenie feet (three inches in our
+measurement) from the ground. The houses were built up high as
+protection from the dampness, for the Saboes lived on a little island in
+the heart of a big swamp, and it also protected the little people from
+bugs. The floor of the house was made of sticks and the roof and sides
+were covered with a peculiar swamp grass. A flat stone about the size of
+a half dollar was placed on the floor, on which the wild men built a
+tiny fire to keep themselves warm in winter, and a small hole in the
+roof provided a chimney for the smoke.
+
+Twice a day the wild men brought the two Teenie Weenies delicious pieces
+of smoked frog ham, with many tiny rice cakes, and every other day the
+two prisoners were given a blackberry.
+
+One night shortly after the Lady of Fashion and the Poet had been
+brought to the wild men’s village, the two Teenie Weenies heard the
+beating of a drum. For what seemed hours the little prisoners listened
+to the tumtum, tumtum, tumtum, of the drum. There was no use asking the
+wild man who guarded them just outside their door, for he couldn’t
+understand them, so there was nothing to do but listen to the tumtum,
+tumtum, tumtum, and wonder what it was all about.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Presently one of the wild men climbed up the ladder to their house and
+motioned the two Teenie Weenies to follow him. He led them beneath a
+bush near by, where a lot of wild men were dancing about a great fire.
+The men sang a queer sort of song as they danced, while one
+strange-looking fellow, who was a sort of witch doctor, rattled a huge
+seed pod fastened to the end of a forked stick. The wild men performed
+this strange dance once a month, as they believed it would keep bad luck
+away from their tribe.
+
+The Queen of the wild men sat near the fire on the back of her turtle,
+while the rest of the Saboes stood in a circle about the dancing men.
+The fire had been built in a deep hole on top of a large stone and when
+the stone was almost red-hot, the wild men scraped the fire all out with
+long sticks.
+
+Then they lined the hole in the stone with sassafras leaves, into which
+they threw four large frog hams and then covered them over with several
+big leaves. Sand was then thrown onto the leaves, covering the hams
+tightly in the hot hole.
+
+The wild men built a fire all around the outside edge of the stone, and
+while the hams cooked they again took up the wild dance. When the hams
+were baked they were taken out and a piece was served to each person and
+the Lady of Fashion and the Poet both enjoyed the delicious meat.
+
+After everyone had eaten of the ham, the Queen ordered the two Teenie
+Weenies to be taken back to their prison, but although it was very late,
+the Lady of Fashion and the Poet could hear the loud shouts of the wild
+little people for many hours.
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                              Chapter Ten
+
+                        HELP FROM A GROUND ROBIN
+
+
+The army was now in the very heart of the great forest and it took a lot
+of hard work to get the heavy wagons and cannon through the jungle. At
+times a path had to be chopped through the tall grass and all this had
+to be done as silently as possible, for the army was now likely to run
+across the wild men at any time.
+
+“I don’t want these wild men to know that we are in the neighborhood,”
+the General warned the troops. “It is much better to surprise them, and,
+besides, there is no telling just what they may do to the Lady of
+Fashion and the Poet if they discover that we have come to rescue them.”
+
+The path the army now followed was so rough that little headway could be
+made and the General had to order a halt every now and then to rest the
+mice and men. During one of these stops the General fell into
+conversation with a pert-looking little ground robin who had hopped onto
+the limb of a bush near by.
+
+“Do you know just where these wild men live?” asked the General.
+
+“I’ll say I does,” answered the robin, who used very bad grammar. “I
+knows more about ’em than I wants to. The nasty little scalawags! These
+wild men get most all the seeds hereabouts and it’s all an honest bird
+can do to scratch out a bare living.”
+
+“Could you guide us for a few days?” put in the General.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“Gracious!” tittered the bird, “you’d never reach the wild men’s place
+in a few days with all those wagons and mice. They live on an island.
+You’ll have to have a boat or somethin’ to carry you over the water.”
+
+“I have heard that they live on an island,” said the General, “but I
+mean could you show us the way to the water where we would be nearest to
+the island?”
+
+“Of course I could,” answered the bird; “that is, providin’ it would be
+worth my time.”
+
+“We will pay you,” said the General. “We’ll give you six sunflower seeds
+for your work.”
+
+“Make it six and a half seeds and I’ll do it,” cried the bird.
+
+The General agreed and the bird hopped along ahead of the army, jumping
+onto a bush occasionally to point out the best path. After a couple of
+hours’ march, the army came out onto a sandy beach, where the General
+called a halt.
+
+“This is the place and over there is the island,” cried the bird,
+nodding his head towards the water.
+
+The Teenie Weenies looked across the water and they could see the dim
+outlines of the island.
+
+The ground robin was paid his six and a half sunflower seeds and in a
+short time the tired little soldiers put up the tiny tents and made a
+most cozy little camp. They named it camp Bitem, because of the many
+mosquitoes about the place.
+
+As the General did not wish a fire to be built for fear the wild men
+might see the light, the little army made its dinner on two sliced
+strawberries and a few grains of rice. No lights were lit that night in
+the camp and a strong guard watched carefully throughout the silent
+hours, which were disturbed only by the sentinels as they killed
+mosquitoes with the butts of their rifles or stabbed them with their
+bayonets.
+
+Early the next morning the men set to work building a raft which was to
+be used in carrying the army across the water to the wild men’s island.
+
+A great many logs had to be cut, trimmed and brought to the water’s
+edge. The Cowboy hitched one of the strongest mice to the heavy logs and
+one by one they were hauled up to the workmen, who labored for nearly
+three days before the raft was done.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+While the men were at work on the raft, the Turk flew over the wild
+men’s island in search of a good place for the army to land and at the
+same time he kept an eye open for the Lady of Fashion and the Poet. He
+flew as near as he could to the wild men’s village without being seen,
+but he could see no signs of the two Teenie Weenies.
+
+“I think the wild men have the Lady of Fashion and the Poet locked up in
+one of their houses,” the Turk told the General when he slid off the
+bird’s back at the army camp. “I noticed one of the houses was closely
+guarded and I think we shall find them there.”
+
+“We’ll soon find out,” answered the General, “for the army will be on
+the wild men’s island in a mighty short time.” Taking the Turk by the
+arm, the General showed him where the raft was being built.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                             Chapter Eleven
+
+                          THE POET LEARNS SABO
+
+
+While the Lady of Fashion and the Poet were being held prisoner by the
+Saboes, the Poet very carefully listened to the wild men’s strange
+language and in a short time he was able to speak a few of their words.
+
+“Jinks, but it is hot in this shanty!” he said to the Lady of Fashion
+one morning as he wiped his forehead with his Teenie Weenie handkerchief
+and looked out through the tiny hole that served as a window in the
+house in which they were held prisoners.
+
+“If the Queen would just let us go out and take a little exercise once
+in a while it would help a lot,” suggested the Lady of Fashion fanning
+herself with a dry leaf. “Why don’t you ask the Queen? Maybe she will
+let us take a walk now and then.”
+
+“I’ll do it,” answered the Poet, and looking out through the door he
+called to one of the wild men who stood near guarding the house.
+
+“Gip bah wah hoo,” said the Poet, which means in Sabo, “We need
+exercise.” “Tell the Queen we want to get out of this shanty and take a
+walk once in a while,” he continued in the wild men’s language.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  THE WILD MEN ATTACK THE TEENIE WEENIES, AS THEIR RAFT
+  NEARS THE ISLAND.—_Chapter Thirteen._
+]
+
+The wild man grunted a couple of times and hurried off through the long
+grass towards the Queen’s house, while the two Teenie Weenies sat down
+near the tiny door to await his return.
+
+Presently the wild man came back and told the Poet that the Queen said
+that the Teenie Weenies could take a walk whenever they liked.
+
+“Well, we’ll take a walk right this minute,” announced the Poet, and he
+quickly helped the Lady of Fashion down the tiny ladder.
+
+The Teenie Weenies strolled along through the streets of the village
+while the two guards walked a few feet behind them. A great many
+children followed the Teenie Weenies about but, although the Lady of
+Fashion tried to make friends with them, they were very timid and stood
+off at a safe distance.
+
+At one place two wild women were preparing dinner and the Teenie Weenies
+were much interested in what they saw. One woman was baking rice cakes
+on a flat stone under which a fire was burning, while a young girl was
+grinding wild rice into flour by pounding the rice with a small rock in
+a hollowed-out stone. Near the house was a hollowed-out log with leaves
+spread over the top to keep out the dust, and one of the guards told the
+Poet that the log was filled with salt water in which the frog hams were
+pickled before they were smoked.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The two Teenie Weenies spent a very pleasant afternoon looking about the
+village and it was quite late before they returned to their prison.
+
+“Oh, dear me,” said the Lady of Fashion as she threw herself down on one
+of the soft grass mats, “I wonder what is going to happen to us. Do you
+think the General will come with the army and rescue us?”
+
+“Of course he will,” answered the Poet. “All we have to do is to be
+patient and he’ll be here pretty soon.”
+
+“But what if he doesn’t know that we have been captured by these wild
+men?” asked the Lady of Fashion anxiously.
+
+“He will know all right,” said the Poet. “The Teenie Weenies could see
+the footprints of the wild men in the sand where we were captured. That
+is enough to tell them what has happened to us.”
+
+“Oh, dear, if they would only come!” And the poor little lady began to
+sob.
+
+“Here! Here!” said the Poet anxiously, for he always felt mighty
+uncomfortable whenever the Lady of Fashion cried. “You must not cry.
+That won’t do a bit of good—just makes you feel bad and me worse.”
+
+“I-I-I c-c-can’t help it,” sobbed the little lady. “I want clean
+clothes, my hair needs washing, I want some of the Cook’s good apple
+butter, I want my toothbrush and I-I-I want to go home.”
+
+The Poet tried his best to comfort her and presently she cried herself
+to sleep.
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                             Chapter Twelve
+
+                            GOGO’S BRAVE ACT
+
+
+After much sawing, chopping and splitting of logs, the Teenie Weenies
+finally finished building the raft which was to carry the little army to
+the wild men’s island.
+
+“We’ve got to give the raft a trial before we get all loaded up with
+supplies,” said the Old Soldier when the work had been done. “I’ll take
+it on the water this afternoon and give it a good try-out.”
+
+“Quite right, quite right,” agreed the General as he sat down on a dry
+fern leaf. “We’ll have to send the army over in two trips. First the
+infantry can be taken over, then the raft can return for the artillery
+and some supplies.”
+
+“Will the raft carry the cannon and the two mice that pull it?” asked
+the Doctor.
+
+“Certainly,” said the Old Soldier. “It even ought to hold a good-sized
+paving brick.”
+
+“Well, you can just bet I won’t get on that old raft until it has been
+thoroughly tried out,” announced Tess Bone as she arranged her dainty
+little cap and patted the Red Cross badge on her arm.
+
+“That’s the way I feel about it too,” added Sally Guff, the other nurse
+with the army.
+
+“You don’t need to worry about this raft,” laughed the Old Soldier.
+“It’s well made and every log is securely tied with strong, number forty
+thread.”
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Right after lunch the General ordered several of the soldiers to help
+the Old Soldier take the raft out for a trial trip.
+
+With the help of the big sweep on the stern of the raft and the use of
+several long poles, the little men slowly pushed the craft out into the
+stream.
+
+“Jumping beans!” exclaimed the Old Soldier as the raft slid easily out
+into the water. “That is what I call a good—” but the Old Soldier never
+finished the sentence, for at that very moment a big frog poked his head
+out of the water and hopped up onto the raft.
+
+“Oooooo, a-a-a s-s-submarine!” gasped the Dunce. “Jump for your lives,”
+and he leaped head first into the deep water.
+
+Most of the Teenie Weenies gave one look at the ugly frog, followed the
+Dunce into the water and swam as fast as they could for shore. The Old
+Soldier and Gogo were the only men to hold their ground, and if it had
+not been for these brave little fellows, the frog would have captured
+the transport without a battle. The Old Soldier drew his sword and
+attacked the frog, while Gogo struck the big fellow over the head with
+the boat pole. The frog, who had been attracted by the red coats of the
+soldiers, had hopped onto the raft in search of a meal, but he quickly
+slid back into the water at the first blow of the boat pole.
+
+The soldiers who had jumped into the water were much ashamed of their
+behavior and they all quickly returned to the raft and finished the
+trial trip they had started.
+
+“My brave lad,” said the General, grasping Gogo by the hand when the
+raft returned from its trip, “in behalf of the Teenie Weenie army I want
+to thank you for your great bravery and I hereby promote you to first
+sergeant in the Teenie Weenie army.”
+
+“Oh, dat’s all right, General,” said Gogo, much confused at the honor
+thrust upon him. “There’s no fool frog what’s done gonna scare me when
+I’s mad, and I was certainly mad at that fool frog.”
+
+The raft proved to be thoroughly seaworthy, so the General gave orders
+for the men to be ready to board her just as soon as the wind and
+current were favorable for the trip to the wild men’s island.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                            Chapter Thirteen
+
+                               THE ATTACK
+
+
+It was a long trip to the wild men’s island and the General wished to
+make the journey under cover of darkness. “I want to land on the island
+before daybreak so we can surprise the wild men,” the General told his
+officers, who were gathered for a council of war.
+
+“The Sailor tells me,” continued the General, “that the wind and current
+are just right to sail the raft over to-night. I will take over the
+infantry on the first trip and then the raft can return for the
+artillery and the baggage and the rear guard, which the Old Soldier will
+command.”
+
+The Cook had a great pot of rice cooked and he had stewed five lima
+beans. This great amount of food was portioned out, and three days’
+rations were given to each soldier.
+
+A number of picks and shovels, with a lot of bags and a chest of
+bullets, was loaded onto the raft.
+
+Promptly at eleven o’clock the General, followed by several men, marched
+onto the raft and some of the soldiers with long poles quickly pushed
+out into the dark stream.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  THE TEENIE WEENIES PULL THE CAPTURED WILD MEN OUT OF
+  THE BOTTLE.—_Chapter Sixteen._
+]
+
+The Sailor and the Cowboy handled the big sweep at the back of the raft,
+while the Policeman and the Scotchman pushed wherever they could with
+the long poles.
+
+No lights were allowed on the raft and the men were ordered to talk only
+in whispers, for the General wished to land on the island unknown to the
+wild men.
+
+“J-j-j-jimminie C-c-christmas!” stuttered the trembling Dunce, “I-I-I’m
+not a-a bit s-s-scared. Are you, G-g-gogo?”
+
+“Not v-v-very m-m-much,” answered the colored lad, trying to keep his
+knees from knocking together. “I done hope we-all—”
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But at that minute, the raft struck something with such a bang it nearly
+upset most of the little soldiers. In fact, the Scotchman would have
+tumbled into the water if the Cowboy hadn’t caught him.
+
+The raft had struck the limb of an old tree that lay in the water and to
+the alarm of the General it stuck fast.
+
+“This is terrible. Perfectly terrible,” groaned the General, glancing
+towards the eastern sky. “It will soon be daylight and the wild men will
+see us if we are delayed here.”
+
+The men worked with might and main to free the raft, but it was stuck
+tight to the snag and before they managed to get it free it was broad
+daylight.
+
+“The wild men have very likely seen us by this time,” said the General,
+peering towards the island. “So instead of our surprising them, they
+probably will surprise us, but we have got to land. Examine your rifles
+and see that they are in condition to use, for we are likely to have a
+fight.”
+
+“Look there!” cried the Sailor, pointing towards the shore, for the raft
+was now only a short distance from the island. “There’s something behind
+that stick.”
+
+“Maybe it’s a wild man,” suggested the Dunce, turning a trifle pale.
+“Don’t you think we had better go back, General?”
+
+“We intend to go on,” said the General, glancing scornfully at the
+frightened Dunce, “but if you want to you can jump into the water and
+swim back.”
+
+“I-I-I think I’ll stay here,” said the Dunce as he thought of the many
+frogs and turtles that might snap him up if he tried to swim back.
+
+As the raft drew near the shore, several arrows whistled over the
+soldiers’ heads and instantly a number of wild men sprang up from behind
+a stick that lay on the shore and began shooting at the raft.
+
+“Make ready, men!” shouted the General, drawing his sword. “Shoot over
+the wild men’s heads when I give the word to fire. We don’t want to hurt
+any of them if we can avoid it.”
+
+“O-o-o-oh, I-I-I’m shot!” screamed the Dunce, as an arrow knocked his
+hat from his head, but the rest of the little soldiers never heard the
+foolish fellow, for they stood ready, awaiting the General’s order to
+fire.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                            Chapter Fourteen
+
+                        ON THE WILD MEN’S ISLAND
+
+
+“Deliver this note at once to the Old Soldier,” said the General, as he
+handed the following letter to the army aviator:
+
+    Commander of the rear guard of the Teenie Weenie Army, Camp
+    Bitem, on the Swamp Road:
+
+    My dear Captain:
+
+    We have had a battle with the enemy and our brave men have put
+    them to rout.
+
+    Our transport met with an accident and it was broad daylight
+    before we landed on the island.
+
+    The wild men attacked us as we neared the shore and sent a
+    shower of arrows at us.
+
+    I ordered my men to return the fire, and at the first crack of
+    their rifles the wild men were greatly scared and ran off into
+    the tall grass; I believe that it is the first time the wild men
+    have ever heard a rifle shot.
+
+    We have taken possession of a high bank where I have ordered the
+    men to begin work on a trench.
+
+    The raft is now on its way to your camp, and I want you to rush
+    over the cannon and baggage as soon as possible, for I fully
+    expect the wild men to attack us before long.
+
+    I am sending this note by our brave aviator so you can have
+    things ready to load on the raft when it arrives.
+
+                        Respectfully yours,
+
+                             THE GENERAL,
+
+                       Commander in Chief of the Teenie Weenie Army.
+
+    P. S.—I forgot to say that none of my men was hurt in the battle
+    except the Dunce, who was badly scared by being shot through the
+    hat.
+
+“Yes, sir,” saluted the Turk, and springing onto the back of the
+airplane he quickly flew out of sight over the water.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+When the Old Soldier received the General’s message, he set to work at
+once breaking camp and when the raft arrived the artillery was quickly
+loaded. The raft made two trips during the day and most of the necessary
+baggage was taken over to the island.
+
+A line of trenches was considered necessary by the General, who ordered
+Sergeant Gogo to direct the work and that brave little chap had the
+trenches done in a remarkably short time.
+
+Nothing more was seen of the wild men, but the closest watch was kept,
+for there was no telling when they might appear again.
+
+The little soldiers were much too excited to sleep and most of them sat
+about the tiny camp fire until a late hour talking of the day’s
+experience, but one by one they finally rolled up in their tiny blankets
+and slept, while the guards paced back and forth, ever watchful for
+prowling wild men.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                            Chapter Fifteen
+
+                            A COUNCIL OF WAR
+
+
+For several days the army spent their time building trenches and making
+a comfortable camp, while the army scouts learned all they could about
+the wild men and the lie of the land.
+
+The Red Cross tent had been set up and the tiny cots looked very pretty,
+with their clean white sheets. Fortunately, there had been little use
+for them, as the army had been unusually healthy, the only exception
+being the Chinaman, who had been badly bitten by a pollywog, or tadpole,
+while he was taking a swim in the river.
+
+There had been very little excitement in camp for some time. Not a
+single wild man had been seen since the morning the army had landed on
+the raft and the soldiers had nothing much to do while off guard duty
+but to kill mosquitoes, which were thick about the camp.
+
+Early one morning the Turk was called to the General’s tent, where he
+remained for some time.
+
+“Somethin’ doin’, I’ll bet,” thought the Dunce, who was on guard duty at
+the time in front of headquarters.
+
+Something really was doing, for the Turk was ordered to fly out at once
+and make a careful map of Sabo Island. The Turk hurried to his tent,
+where he supplied himself with paper and pencils and a pair of tiny
+field glasses. The army airplane was dining on a fat worm when the Turk
+arrived, so he sat down and waited until the bird had eaten his
+breakfast.
+
+“We’ve got to go out and make a map of the wild men’s island,” said the
+Turk.
+
+“All right,” answered the bird, “I’m ready,” and hopping onto the ground
+he squatted down while the Turk climbed up on his fat back.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Turk headed the bird to a big tree which grew on the river bank near
+the island and in a few minutes the airplane settled easily on the
+topmost branch. The great blue river lay far beneath the Turk and with
+the help of his field glasses he was able to make a good map of the
+island and the surrounding country.
+
+When he returned to the Teenie Weenie camp the General immediately
+called a council of war and the little aviator was asked to explain the
+map in detail.
+
+“Well,” began the Turk, “the circle marked Camp Bitem is the place where
+we camped and built the raft and the dotted line is the course we took
+to our present camp. The wild men have a sort of camp or fort, I
+couldn’t just exactly make out what it was, but anyhow they are gathered
+in some force on the only cleared ground between their village and our
+camp.”
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  MAP OF WILD MEN’S ISLAND.
+]
+
+“We couldn’t march through the grass and trees and cut the wild men’s
+camp off from the village, could we?” asked the Old Soldier.
+
+“No, sir, I don’t think so,” answered the Turk, “for I do not believe
+anyone could possibly get through the grass and trees.”
+
+“Well, that’s too bad,” muttered the General. “I wanted to get those
+wild men out of that place with as little trouble as possible, but it
+looks as though we would have to take their fort by storm.”
+
+All the Teenie Weenie officers gathered in the General’s tent listened
+solemnly to their commander’s words, for they knew it would be mighty
+serious if they were forced to charge the wild men’s fort.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                            Chapter Sixteen
+
+                          WILD MEN BOTTLED UP
+
+
+“I done got ’em bottled up! I done got ’em bottled up!” shouted Gogo,
+the little colored Teenie Weenie, as he ran panting up to the General’s
+tent.
+
+“What’s bottled up? What’s all the excitement about?” asked the General,
+popping his head through the opening of his tent.
+
+“Why I-I-I done ketched one of the wild men and turned him ovah to the
+guard and I done got three mo’ corked up in a bottle.”
+
+“Great Guns! This is exciting. Tell me about it,” cried the General.
+
+“Well, you see it’s dis way,” said Gogo, sitting down on a pebble and
+mopping his head with his tiny handkerchief. “I done took a walk out
+beyond the picket lines yonder. I knew I had no business wanderin’ out
+dere, but I jus’ kept on and pretty soon I run across a big bottle
+a-layin’ on its side.
+
+“I was kind of ’spicious about dat bottle, fo’ I done see through de
+glass where some dry grass had done been fixed up fo’ a bed, mighty like
+some one been sleepin’ dere.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“‘Gogo,’ I says to myself, ‘some one been sleepin’ heah in dis bottle
+and it ain’t none of de Teenie Weenies, fo’ none of dem has been out
+heah dis far.’ Den I made up my mind that it mus’ be some of dem
+scalawag wild men and I reckon dey mus’ stayed in dis bottle when dey
+was on guard duty watchin’ our army.
+
+“‘But why did dey-all stay in dis heah bottle?’ I says to myself. ‘It’s
+not cold nights.’ But jus’ den a big mosquito cam’ a-buzzin’ and
+a-buzzin’ round and den I knew dat the wild men been a-stayin’ in dat
+bottle fo’ to keep de mosquitoes from bitin’ ’em.
+
+“I says to myself, ‘Some of dese wild men will be comin’ ’round heah
+pretty soon and maybe I can done cotch ’em and extinguish myself.’”
+
+“Distinguish yourself,” corrected the General.
+
+“Yes, sah,” continued the little colored fellow. “Well, I done crawl
+under a leaf and waited. I done wait fo’ a long time, but pretty soon I
+done see fo’ of de wild men come sneakin’ along and pretty soon dey done
+make right fo’ de bottle. Three of ’em done crawl in de bottle and one
+of ’em done squat down outside by de openin’ of de bottle kinda like he
+was guardin’.
+
+“‘By de great corn pone,’ I says, ‘if a couple of de Teenie Weenies was
+heah we could done cotch dese scalawags.’
+
+“Pretty soon I thought to myself, ‘Why don’t you ketch ’em yourself?’ So
+I done sneaked out up behind de wild man what was guardin’ de mouth of
+de bottle and done cracked him on de head with de butt of my gun. I
+didn’t hit very hard—just hard enough to stun him a little—and den I
+grabbed a cork dat was layin’ near by and stuffed it into de bottle and
+braced it with a stick of wood so the scalawags couldn’t get out. I then
+picked up de wild man I had knocked down and brought him into camp and
+dat’s all.”
+
+“A very brave deed, sergeant,” said the General. “And I will immediately
+send out a squad of men to bring your prisoners into camp.”
+
+The Old Soldier was ordered to take a squad of men and go after the
+prisoners, while the Doctor was sent to dress the bump on the head of
+the wild man that Gogo had knocked down. After a great deal of work the
+soldiers managed to pull the three wild men out of the bottle and when
+they were brought into camp they were securely tied to a strong blade of
+grass.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                           Chapter Seventeen
+
+                         THE DUNCE IN DISGRACE
+
+
+“Why are you making such a fine camp here, General?” asked the Doctor,
+as he noticed that the Teenie Weenies continued to improve the camp.
+“Won’t we have to move on pretty soon if the wild men do not attack?”
+
+“We’ll stay right here for some time,” answered the General, taking off
+his tiny sword and laying it on the table which stood in front of his
+tent. “We are within striking distance of the wild men’s village, so the
+aviator tells me, and we’ll use this camp for our base of operations.”
+
+“General,” said the Cook, saluting the commander of the Teenie Weenie
+army, “I beg your pardon, but there is something I must tell you.”
+
+“What is it, sir?” said the General, returning the Cook’s salute.
+
+“Why sir, there’s a thimble missing from among my cooking things. I put
+two beans to soak in it last night and when I went to look at them a
+little while ago the beans were lying on the ground and the thimble was
+gone.”
+
+“That’s most strange,” said the General; “I’ll have the Cowboy look into
+the matter and see if he can find out what has happened to the thimble.”
+
+“Thank you, sir,” said the Cook, “I’m a little short of cooking pans and
+kettles and I’d like to have it back.”
+
+The Cowboy was ordered to look for the lost thimble, but before he had
+fairly started the search, the thimble turned up in a most peculiar way.
+Down the main street of the camp towards the General’s tent marched the
+Dunce with the lost thimble over his head and followed by a laughing
+crowd of soldier.
+
+“What’s the idea of this?” asked the General as the Dunce stopped before
+him.
+
+“Safety first,” answered the Dunce.
+
+“What do you mean by safety first?” asked the General, trying hard to
+keep from laughing at the ridiculous sight.
+
+“W-w-well, you s-s-see,” began the Dunce, “I thought this thimble would
+make a fine suit of armor, and protect me from the wild men’s arrows. I
+took it out back of camp, got some tools and cut a couple of holes for
+my arms to go through and another hole to see through—”
+
+“Yes, and spoiled a perfectly good thimble,” put in the General.
+
+“Jinks!” exclaimed the Dunce, “I never thought of that.”
+
+“Of course you didn’t,” answered the General sternly. “You have a habit
+of doing your thinking afterwards, and that is a mighty bad habit.”
+
+“Quite right! Quite right!” cried a field mouse, who had been hanging
+around the camp for a few days. “Quite right, I says. There’s always a
+time to think. One ought to do a heap of thinking before one acts, I
+says.”
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“Yes, you’re right,” put in the General, glaring at the mouse, who was
+very talkative. “One ought to think a great deal and then he ought to
+say only about one half of what he thinks.”
+
+“Words of wisdom! Words of wisdom!” cried the mouse, never dreaming the
+General’s rebuke was aimed at him, and he strolled down the camp street
+quite pleased with himself.
+
+“Now, Dunce,” said the General, “I’m going to try to see if I can help
+you do a little thinking.”
+
+“Y-y-yes, s-s-s-sir,” answered the Dunce.
+
+“I’m going to make you wear that thimble for the rest of the day and
+that ought to help you to remember that you have spoiled a perfectly
+good cooking pot, just because you didn’t happen to think.”
+
+All day long the poor Dunce was forced to walk up and down in front of
+the General’s tent, wearing the heavy thimble. It was a warm day and the
+thimble grew quite hot in the sunshine, so his punishment was pretty
+hard, but there is no doubt it did him a great deal of good.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                            Chapter Eighteen
+
+                         CONSULTING AN ENGINEER
+
+
+The General studied the map of the wild men’s island which the Turk had
+drawn, in the hope that he could figure out a way to attack the Saboes
+without storming their fort. In storming the fort, the General felt sure
+that many of his soldiers might be injured and he wished to rout the
+enemy with as little damage as possible.
+
+“I have it! I have it!” exclaimed the General one morning as he sat
+studying the tiny map. “We can hire a mole to tunnel under the wild
+men’s fort and then we can blow it up with a firecracker.”
+
+“Bully!” shouted the Old Soldier. “And before they get over the surprise
+of the explosion we can charge through the destroyed fort into the
+village.”
+
+“That’s the idea,” smiled the General. “We’ll go over to-morrow and
+engage the old mole who lives down by the river.”
+
+“Moles are great engineers,” said the Doctor, “and what they don’t know
+about underground digging isn’t worth knowing.”
+
+The next day the General and the Doctor, with an escort of four
+soldiers, set out on the journey to the mole’s home.
+
+“S-s-say, what is a m-m-mole anyhow?” asked the Dunce as the little
+party marched along.
+
+“A mole? Why, a mole—let’s see, a mole—why a mole is a mole,” answered
+Gogo.
+
+“I’ll tell you what a mole is like,” laughed the Doctor, who had
+overheard the Dunce’s question. “A mole is an animal almost the size of
+a rat and he lives under the ground. He has very small eyes and ears,
+and he very seldom comes out in the day time, for it is pretty hard for
+him to see in the bright sunlight. He has very short and powerful legs
+with which he can dig very fast. He lives on worms and grubs and roots,
+and he is usually very gruff and bad-tempered.”
+
+Presently the little party came to the place where the mole lived and
+the General ordered the soldiers to halt. They had stopped by the side
+of a steep bank and near the top was a hole under the roots of a tree,
+which was the front door of the mole’s home.
+
+“Dress up in line, men!” commanded the General, “and when Mr. Mole comes
+to the door of his house I want you all to present arms, for we will
+have to use the greatest diplomacy in order to engage this fellow.”
+
+The General stepped up near the bank and called loudly several times
+into the hole and presently a long furry nose appeared in the opening.
+
+“Well, what do you mean by awakening honest people out of a sound
+sleep?” growled the mole. “What is it? What do you want?”
+
+“I beg your pardon,” said the General as he lifted his hat and made a
+low bow; “I’m awfully sorry I disturbed your rest, but having heard of
+your reputation as an engineer I have come to beg your services for the
+Teenie Weenie army. We want to engage you to dig a trench for us.”
+
+“I’ll work for four fat white grubs a day and not a grub less,” snapped
+the mole.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“That’s quite satisfactory,” answered the General. “We are willing to
+pay whatever you ask, but I want you to know just what the work will be.
+We want you to dig a tunnel in the ground so we can explode a mine in
+it.”
+
+“I don’t care a snap of my tail what kind of work it is; all I want is
+my pay,” growled the mole.
+
+“When may we expect you?” asked the General.
+
+“To-morrow at four o’clock, not a minute sooner or later,” answered the
+mole.
+
+“Shall we have breakfast for you?” asked the General.
+
+“Why, certainly! Why, certainly!” exclaimed the mole. “How in the name
+of angleworms do you expect me to work without food? What do you suppose
+I’m workin’ for—pleasure?”
+
+“We’ll have a couple of nice young grubs for you,” said the General
+politely, although he was quite disturbed by the mole’s ungentlemanly
+manner.
+
+“Two grubs and a couple of angleworms would make me work better,”
+suggested the mole.
+
+“You shall have them,” answered the General stiffly. “Good day to you,
+sir.” Lifting his hat politely, he ordered the soldiers to march back to
+camp.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                            Chapter Nineteen
+
+                     THE OLD SOLDIER’S WAR MACHINE
+
+
+At exactly four o’clock the next morning the mole came into camp, and as
+the General had promised, his breakfast was ready. After the mole had
+eaten his grubs, he reported for work. The General showed the mole just
+where he wanted the tunnel to run and immediately the old fellow set to
+work. He burrowed his nose down into the soft ground and then pushed the
+loosened earth back with his powerful fore claws. He worked wonderfully
+fast and in less than a minute he had entirely disappeared into the
+ground.
+
+All day long the mole worked, coming out only for a few minutes at noon
+to eat his lunch, and at half past five in the afternoon he again
+appeared to announce that the tunnel had been finished.
+
+The General sent the Sailor into the tunnel to measure it, for he wanted
+to be quite sure that it reached a point just under the wild men’s fort.
+
+“It’s just exactly eight hundred and fifty-eight feet long,” announced
+the Sailor when he crawled out of the tunnel a few minutes later. “I
+could hear the wild men walking on the ground above, so it must stop
+right in the middle of the fort.”
+
+“’Course it does,” snapped the mole. “Don’t you suppose I know how to
+dig?”
+
+When the mole had been paid for his work, he slipped off into the night
+without ever even thanking the Teenie Weenies for his pay.
+
+“Queer old surly fellow,” said the General as he watched the awkward
+mole waddle off.
+
+“Yes, but you have to admit that he is a wonderful engineer,” observed
+the Old Soldier.
+
+“Well, gentlemen,” said the General turning to his officers, “we have
+got to move our lines forward. You see, we are about eight hundred and
+fifty feet from the wild men’s fort and it is quite necessary that
+trenches be built forward so we will not have too great a distance to
+charge when we explode the mine under the enemy’s fort.”
+
+The officers all agreed with the General and that very night several men
+were sent out, when it was quite dark, to start the work.
+
+The little soldiers had gone but a short distance when they were seen by
+the wild men, who sent a shower of arrows at them, and Gogo was slightly
+scratched on the arm, while one of the wild men’s arrows splintered the
+Old Soldier’s wooden leg, so the General ordered the work stopped for
+the time being.
+
+The Old Soldier was quite an engineer and when he had whittled out a new
+wooden leg, he set to work trying to scheme out some way by which the
+men could dig the trenches without being hit by the wild men’s arrows.
+
+“I have it,” he cried after he had puzzled over the matter for a time.
+“We can make a big screen out of sticks, one that is quite arrow-proof.”
+
+“How are you going to move it?” asked the Turk. “It will be too heavy
+for the men to carry.”
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“That will be easy,” smiled the Old Soldier. “There’s a spool of thread
+among our supplies and all we have to do is to remove the thread and—”
+
+“Use the spool as a sort of wheel to roll the screen on,” put in the
+Cook.
+
+“Right,” laughed the Old Soldier. “We can push it ahead of us on the
+spool and be quite safe from the wild men’s arrows.”
+
+The General ordered the screen made and at once, under the watchful eye
+of the Old Soldier, the men set to work building it. In a remarkably
+short time the screen was finished and early the next morning the Old
+Soldier, with six chosen men, started to push it toward the wild men’s
+fort.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As soon as the wild men saw the screen coming toward them, they let fly
+a shower of arrows, but they either stuck fast in the screen or flew
+harmlessly over the soldier’s heads.
+
+“Great Guns!” cried the Old Soldier when the little party had pushed the
+screen quite a ways toward the wild men’s fort. “We forgot to bring
+along the picks and shovels.”
+
+“I’ll get ’em, Captain,” said the Dunce, saluting the Old Soldier and
+hardly waiting for the officer’s permission, the Dunce ran for the
+trench which they had just left, as fast as his legs would carry him.
+
+The Dunce grabbed up three picks and with the help of the Chinaman who
+volunteered to go along, the two brave Teenie Weenies ran for the screen
+amid the flying arrows which whizzed all about them.
+
+All day long the men worked hard, pulling the screen along as they dug
+back toward the Teenie Weenie trench, and at night, six other soldiers
+took up the work where the rest left off. Several days of hard labor
+finished the work and not one Teenie Weenie had been shot, thanks to the
+Old Soldier’s screen.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                             Chapter Twenty
+
+                     THE DUNCE LOOKS FOR EXCITEMENT
+
+
+From the new trenches the Teenie Weenies could see the wild men’s fort
+plainly. The little soldiers had to be very careful, however, for every
+time they showed themselves the wild men would let fly a shower of
+arrows. The soldiers thought it great fun to put their hats on sticks
+and push them out in sight of the wild men. At first this brought a
+tremendous number of arrows, but finally the wild men caught onto the
+trick and only an occasional arrow would fly at the exposed hat.
+
+The men took turns guarding the front trenches. It was very tiresome
+work sitting in the narrow ditch waiting for something to happen and
+most of the soldiers would have welcomed the order to storm the wild
+men’s fort.
+
+“I can’t see why the General doesn’t get busy and take the fort,”
+growled the Scotchman one afternoon. Several of the men, who were off
+duty, were lying in a mossy place under some big ferns, discussing the
+matter. “We’ve got everything ready for the attack, the men are more
+than anxious to go into action and we could lick the stuffin’ out of the
+Saboes.”
+
+“Keep cool, Scotty; we’ll get a chance soon enough,” said the Turk, who
+was very quiet and always took things calmly. “The General knows what
+he’s about and when he gets his plans ready, we’ll get all the
+excitement we want.”
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“Excitement!” exclaimed the Dunce. “That’s me. I’ve got to have some
+excitement; I’m sick and tired of sittin’ around here without anything
+doin’.”
+
+“Let’s get our guns and go out and see if we can’t shoot some dragon
+flies or mosquitoes,” suggested the Sailor.
+
+“Nah, that ain’t dangerous enough,” answered the Dunce. “I want to do
+something that will give me a thrill,” and getting up he slowly walked
+towards the tall grass near the Teenie Weenie camp.
+
+The General had given orders that none of the soldiers should leave
+camp, for the grass was so tangled and thick that it would be an easy
+thing to get lost and, besides, the savage wild men might be hiding
+behind the thick stalks of grass.
+
+“Jinks!” thought the Dunce as he peered into the dense grass, “the
+General wouldn’t scold me if I happened to stroll out there and capture
+a wild man.”
+
+After some minutes of thought, the Dunce hurried to his tent, got his
+gun and sneaked unseen out of camp into the dark grass. He stumbled
+along for some time without making much headway, for the stalks of grass
+grew close together and the dead leaves tangled about his feet at almost
+every step. Presently he came to an open spot near the edge of the
+island, where he found walking much easier, but he had gone only a short
+distance when he suddenly saw four wild men ahead of him.
+
+“Throw up your hands—you’re surrounded!” shouted the Dunce, pointing his
+gun towards them.
+
+The wild men, not understanding the Teenie Weenie language, started
+running towards the Dunce with loud yells.
+
+The poor Dunce was so badly frightened he forgot to fire his gun and
+turning about he ran as fast as his short legs could carry him towards
+the Teenie Weenie camp.
+
+The army aviator, who happened to be scouting above the shore of the
+island, saw the Dunce being chased by the wild men.
+
+“Quick!” he shouted to the bird on which he flew. “Fly just as close as
+you can to the Dunce and I’ll grab him as we sail by.”
+
+The bird flew straight for the ground and holding tight to its neck, the
+aviator grabbed the Dunce by the collar and snatched him from the very
+hands of the wild men.
+
+The Turk pulled the frightened Dunce up on the bird’s back and a few
+minutes later they landed safely in the Teenie Weenie camp.
+
+“Well, sir,” said the General when he had heard the Turk’s story of the
+rescue, “what were you doing outside the camp without permission to go
+out?”
+
+“I-I-I-I j-j-just wanted s-s-some excitement and I-I-I-I thought I’d go
+out and s-s-see if I-I-I couldn’t capture a wild man,” stammered the
+frightened Dunce.
+
+“Well, did you capture any of them?” asked the General with a wink at
+the Old Soldier.
+
+“W-w-w-well, I-I surrounded f-f-four of ’em, but they wouldn’t stay
+surrounded and they started to chase me, so I-I-I had to r-r-run.”
+
+“Well, did you get any excitement?” smiled the General.
+
+“Oh, yes, sir, I-I-I got more than I-I-I was looking for.”
+
+“Well, sir,” said the General, “I hope you got enough excitement to last
+you for a long time. You are guilty of an act of leaving camp without
+permission and I find it necessary to place you under arrest.”
+
+The poor Dunce was marched off between four soldiers to the tiny guard
+house, where he was left to think over his disobedience.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  THE ARMY AVIATOR SNATCHES THE DUNCE FROM THE HANDS OF
+  THE WILD MEN.—_Chapter Twenty._
+]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                           Chapter Twenty-One
+
+                    THE SCOUTS HAVE A NARROW ESCAPE
+
+
+“General, the men are getting restless. They want to get into action and
+it seems to me that we ought to hurry our plans for the attack,” said
+the Old Soldier. The two little officers were sitting at the tiny table
+in front of the General’s tent.
+
+“Yes, I believe you’re right,” answered the General thoughtfully. “The
+plans for the attack are almost ready, but I would like to get some more
+information about the wild men. I’d like to know just how many are
+guarding the fort, what sort of arms they have and a lot of other
+details. The Turk has been able to get much valuable information, but
+the grass is so tall around the fort that he has not been able to get
+very near in the airplane, so I’m afraid I’ll have to send the scouts
+out for the facts I want.”
+
+“That’s mighty dangerous,” said the Old Soldier, stroking his beard.
+“The jungle is full of the Saboes—they are swarming all through the
+grass, thicker than ants on a chocolate drop.”
+
+“Yes, I know it’s dangerous, but I believe the Cowboy and the Indian can
+get through unseen and bring back the information I want,” the General
+said. “Either one of the little fellows is at home in the woods and
+grass. They are both pastmasters in covering up their tracks. Why, I
+believe the Indian could walk through a lady’s powder box without ever
+leaving a single track,” and the General said it so earnestly there was
+no doubt but that he spoke the truth.
+
+Turning to the guard that stood near his tent, the General ordered him
+to bring the Indian and the Cowboy. “Tell them it is important and that
+I wish them to report at once.”
+
+In a few minutes the two scouts appeared and, clicking their tiny heels
+together, they saluted in the most approved military fashion.
+
+“You sent for us, sir?” said the Cowboy.
+
+“Yes,” answered the General, looking seriously at the sturdy little men.
+“I have a piece of work for you to do. First I want to tell you that it
+is mighty risky—in fact, it is extremely dangerous. I will not send you
+unless you are willing to go—you shall choose.”
+
+“We are ready to go,” answered the little scouts quietly, and their
+loyalty touched the General greatly.
+
+“I want you to go to the wild men’s fort and get all the information you
+can,” said the General. “Find out how many men they have, what sort of
+weapons they use, note the condition of their fort and get some idea of
+the ground beyond the fort. Get all the facts you can and report to me
+as soon as possible.”
+
+“Yes, sir,” answered the scouts and, saluting, they hurried to their
+tent, where they buckled on their tiny pistols. Next they each secured a
+supply of dried minnow and half a boiled bean, which they stuffed into
+their pockets.
+
+They slipped quietly out of camp and after a long and tiresome trip they
+finally drew near to the wild men’s fort. They could hear the voices of
+the wild men now and then and the two Teenie Weenies were forced to
+steal along with the greatest care. Presently they crawled up to a place
+quite near the fort where they could see the wild men every now and then
+through the long grass. The scouts watched the wild men for several
+hours and it was quite late before the little fellows could find a
+chance to crawl away safely and unseen.
+
+Several times on their way back to the Teenie Weenie camp the scouts
+were forced to hide under leaves and dry grass to keep from being
+discovered, and once they had to lie for almost an hour in a hollow
+stick, as several wild men stopped near them to rest.
+
+“It be heap much dark soon,” grunted the Indian as he peered through the
+grass at the sky.
+
+“We can never get back to camp before night and we couldn’t possibly get
+through this jungle in the dark, so we’ve got to find some place to
+spend the night,” whispered the Cowboy.
+
+The two Teenie Weenies found a deserted bird’s nest in a bush near by,
+and, climbing up the bush, they soon made themselves comfortable for the
+night.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Early in the morning the little scouts were awakened by voices, and
+looking over the edge of the nest, they saw several wild men coming
+towards the bush. The wild men stopped beneath the bush, where they soon
+made a fire and cooked pieces of frog ham for their breakfast.
+
+The two Teenie Weenies had eaten what little food they had brought with
+them the day before and as they smelled the delicious meat cooking it
+made them as hungry as bears. There were too many of the Saboes for the
+two scouts to fight, so they could do nothing but lie quiet until the
+wild men had gone. In a short time the wild men finished their breakfast
+and after talking in their strange language for a few minutes they
+hurried away.
+
+When the wild men had disappeared into the jungle of tall grass near by,
+the two scouts carefully climbed out of the nest and set off in the
+direction of the Teenie Weenie camp. Several times they had to hide
+behind sticks and leaves when the wild men passed near them, and once,
+three of the savage little fellows came so close to the spot where the
+scouts lay hidden that they thought they would surely be discovered. It
+was almost evening before the Cowboy and the Indian reached camp and the
+little fellows reported at once to the General. They gave the Commander
+of the Teenie Weenie army such valuable news that he at once called in
+his staff for a council of war.
+
+The little officers talked for a long time and when they finally came
+out of the General’s tent, it was very plain to see that something was
+about to happen. Officers dashed about the camp giving orders, the
+Doctor and the two nurses busied themselves around the tiny hospital,
+while Paddy Pinn spent much time with his Teenie Weenie cannon.
+
+Three of the soldiers carried two big firecrackers into the tunnel the
+mole had made. In fact, everyone was busy and the whole camp teemed with
+excitement, wondering as to what was to happen next.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                           Chapter Twenty-Two
+
+                               THE BATTLE
+
+
+Orders had been given to attack the wild men in the morning and most of
+the Teenie Weenie soldiers slept very little during the night. At
+daylight a thimbleful of hot cocoa and a supply of bread was brought
+into the front trenches and while the little soldiers ate, the artillery
+kept up a heavy fire on the wild men’s fort.
+
+At last the order was given to charge and the excited Teenie Weenies
+climbed out of their trenches and dashed for the fort.
+
+Although the soldiers’ tiny knees knocked together and their teeth
+chattered with fright, they went into battle with great eagerness,
+cheered by the voices of several meadow mice and bugs, who stood out of
+range of the wild men’s arrows.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+It was a great victory. Probably the history of the battle can be better
+told by one who took part in it, so we shall hear the story from a
+letter written by Mr. Lover to his wife immediately after the battle.
+The tiny letter was written on a piece of very thin birch bark, about
+half the size of a postage stamp, but if you could see it under a
+powerful microscope you would read it, word for word, just as it appears
+on this page.
+
+    My dear Bab:
+
+    As the Indian is carrying the official news of the battle back
+    to Shoehurst, you will know before you open this letter that we
+    have won. It was wonderful and I will tell you all about it from
+    the very first. The wild men’s fort, which was made of strong
+    sticks, lay in a narrow path guarding the only open road to the
+    village, where the Lady of Fashion and Poet are held prisoners.
+    In order to get to the village we had to capture the fort. We
+    heard the night before that we were to storm the fort in the
+    morning and believe me, we didn’t sleep much; that is, I didn’t.
+    I was as nervous as a cat in a dog house.
+
+    Early in the morning the aviator flew over the fort and dropped
+    pepper bombs. These bombs are made out of red pepper tied up in
+    thin pieces of tissue paper and when they hit the ground they
+    break and scatter the pepper all around. While the wild men were
+    sneezing from the effects of the pepper, the artillery opened up
+    and sent a lot of shot into the fort.
+
+    Next, a big mine we had made under the fort was exploded. There
+    were two big firecrackers in it and, say, you ought to have seen
+    the sticks fly up in the air when that mine went off! Right
+    after the mine explosion we were ordered to charge and we jumped
+    out of the trenches and started on the run for the fort.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  THE TEENIE WEENIE ARMY DRIVES THE WILD MEN FROM THEIR
+  WRECKED FORT.—_Chapter Twenty-two._
+]
+
+    We were almost halfway there when the Sailor, who was carrying
+    the flag, dropped with an arrow in his chest. The Dunce caught
+    up the fallen flag and putting his hat on top of the staff, he
+    yelled for us to follow. Everybody cheered, for we didn’t think
+    the Dunce had enough nerve to do such a brave thing.
+
+    The fort was badly wrecked by the explosion, so it wasn’t hard
+    to climb over it to get at the wild men. Most of the Saboes were
+    so scared they never tried to fight, but a few of them stood
+    their ground. They were quickly subdued, however. We captured
+    fourteen men; five of them are wounded, but the Doctor has them
+    in the hospital and he’ll fix them up all right.
+
+    Four of our men were wounded, but the Sailor is the only one who
+    was badly hurt. The Doctor says that he will pull through all
+    right.
+
+    We wanted to attack the wild men’s village, but the General
+    wouldn’t let us. He says we have got to take care of the wounded
+    and make our lines safe before we can go farther. Some of the
+    men seem to think that there will be very little fight left in
+    the wild men, for they were pretty well scared by our attack.
+    The Scotchman and I are doing guard duty; we have to guard the
+    prisoners. We are using an old bottle for a prison and it
+    certainly makes a good one; if we keep on getting prisoners
+    we’ll soon have a bottleful.
+
+    I do hope the General follows up the victory and goes right
+    after these wild men, so we can end this war, for I want to get
+    home to you and the children.
+
+    Well, I’ll have to stop now as the Indian is about ready to
+    start for Shoehurst. Tell the twins I have a nice string of
+    blackberry seed beads for each of them and give them each a kiss
+    for me.
+
+                   Affectionately,
+
+                        Your Husband.
+
+    P. S.: The Cook and the Chinaman have just brought up a pot of
+    cocoa and four hot beans! Hurrah! we’re going to have a feast.
+
+                                                              Hubby.
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                          Chapter Twenty-Three
+
+                             THE RED CROSS
+
+
+There was much confusion after the battle, for so many things had to be
+done, and done quickly. The lines had to be advanced and made safe
+against attack by the wild men. The prisoners had to be carefully
+guarded until they could be put into the grape juice bottle which was
+being used as a prison.
+
+Then, there were the wounded. Both Teenie Weenies and wild men had to be
+given the best of care. Just as soon as the battle was over, the injured
+were gathered up and carried tenderly to the Red Cross field hospital,
+where the Doctor and his two little nurses dressed their wounds. The
+Clown and the Policeman carried the wounded into the hospital on tiny
+stretchers and just as soon as the injured little fellows had medical
+care, they were put into clean beds. At first the injured wild men were
+much frightened, but when they were handled so tenderly by the Doctor
+and his lovely nurses, they became quite contented.
+
+The Doctor’s official report to the General gives the best idea of the
+work of the Red Cross after the battle, and it is printed here, word for
+word, from that tiny document.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+                 TEENIE WEENIE RED CROSS FIELD HOSPITAL
+
+    Commander in Chief,     Report No. 14.
+
+          Teenie Weenie Army.
+
+    Sir: I herein give to you a full detailed report of the Red
+    Cross work after the battle of Sabo:
+
+                        =Teenie Weenies Injured=
+
+    Sailor—Shot in the right breast with arrow, which was removed
+    after a hard operation, as the point had broken off between the
+    third and fourth ribs. Eleven stitches taken in wound. Patient
+    in bad shape but will recover.
+
+    Dunce—Shot in hand; slight wound; will be all right in few days.
+
+    Gogo—Two small wounds in right leg and left arm.
+
+    Cowboy—Scratch on cheek from spear thrust.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+                           =Wild Men Injured=
+
+    No. 1—Serious wound in neck from rifle bullet; removed bullet
+    after much work; patient in bad shape.
+
+    No. 2—Bad bayonet wound in side; will recover.
+
+    No. 3—Piece of shell removed from back; nineteen stitches taken
+    in wound; will get well.
+
+    No. 4—Painful scalp wound from being hit on head with butt of
+    gun; five stitches taken in wound.
+
+    No. 5—Shot in shoulder; not dangerous.
+
+    I wish to bring to your notice the good work of my staff. I
+    commend them for their earnest and skillful help in taking care
+    of the wounded. The work of bringing in the wounded was promptly
+    done by the Policeman and the Clown in a manner that calls for
+    the highest praise.
+
+    Tess Bone and Sally Guff, my two excellent nurses, were of the
+    greatest service. Their tenderness in handling the injured was
+    of the highest order.
+
+    I wish also to bring to your notice the kindness of Peter
+    Meadowlark and Bouncing Ben, the jumping mouse. Peter Meadowlark
+    did much towards keeping the patients in a good frame of mind by
+    his daily songs. Every day he came to the hospital and sang for
+    the wounded.
+
+    Bouncing Ben kept the sick laughing for hours by his funny
+    handsprings and somersaults. I owe much to these two
+    kind-hearted fellows for the good condition of my patients.
+
+              Sincerely yours,
+
+                   Surgeon General,
+
+                        Teenie Weenie Army.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                          Chapter Twenty-Four
+
+                           LET THERE BE PEACE
+
+
+After the battle the front lines were moved quite a distance towards the
+center of the island, where the wild men’s village stood. A strong
+breastwork of sticks and grass was built and a most careful watch was
+kept at all times. Nothing was seen of the wild men except shadowy forms
+that every now and then dodged about among the stalks of big grass. They
+were surely in the tall grass, for the savage little fellows could slip
+about in the jungle almost unseen.
+
+It was quite certain that the General intended to move again in a short
+time, for everything was made ready for another battle.
+
+One morning the Scotchman, who was in the front lines, happened to see a
+wild man crawling along on his stomach towards a stick that lay in front
+of the Teenie Weenie breastwork. The tiny soldier raised his gun and
+waited, thinking the wild men were about to charge, but instead a blade
+of grass appeared above the stick and to it was tied a white rag.
+
+“Jinks!” exclaimed the Scotchman, lowering his gun, “the wild men are
+showing a flag of truce.”
+
+“Hold your fire, men!” shouted the Cowboy, who was in charge of the
+Teenie Weenie fort at the time. “They are sending out a flag of truce.”
+
+Presently the wild man crawled out from behind the stick and timidly
+made his way toward the Teenie Weenies.
+
+“What do you want?” asked the Cowboy, peering over the top of the fort.
+
+“Wap gee goo mah be gum,” answered the wild man as he approached the
+Teenie Weenies. Of course none of them could understand a word of this.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“Talk English, you goof,” cried the Cowboy. “I can’t understand that
+kind of talk.”
+
+The wild man carried a piece of folded birch bark in his hand and when
+he reached the fort he handed it over to the Cowboy. It was addressed to
+the General, and the Cowboy at once sent the note to him.
+
+When the note was delivered to the General, he found that it was from
+the Queen of the wild men, written by the Poet, and this is what he
+read:
+
+      Commander in Chief, Teenie Weenie Army. My dear General:
+
+    Her Royal Highness, Mooie, Queen of the wild men, sends
+    greetings. Her Highness wishes to talk over terms of peace with
+    you and suggests that you and your staff meet her at the stream
+    which crosses the path halfway between the Sabo village and your
+    camp. Her Highness awaits your pleasure and asks Your Excellency
+    to set a date for the meeting.
+
+                   Respectfully yours
+
+                        RUFUS RHYME.
+
+    P. S.—Although the Lady of Fashion and I have been closely
+    guarded since we have been prisoners, we have been very well
+    treated and I ask that you take this into consideration when you
+    arrange peace terms.
+
+                   R. R.
+
+The General answered the note at once, making arrangements to meet the
+Queen on the following day.
+
+The next day at the appointed time the General, the Old Soldier and a
+guard of eight soldiers marched off to the meeting place, where they
+found the Queen awaiting them.
+
+The Queen sat on her favorite turtle and she had with her several of her
+warriors and the Poet.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As the Teenie Weenies drew near, the Queen and her followers raised
+their left hands above their heads, which is the Sabo custom when
+friends meet. The Queen was the first to speak, and the Poet, who had
+learned the Sabo language while he was held prisoner, translated her
+words to the Teenie Weenies as follows:
+
+“O, great chief of the thunder wagon (the name, “Men of the Thunder
+Wagon,” was given to the Teenie Weenies on account of the cannon which
+the wild men said sounded like thunder), we have come here to ask for
+peace. We do not wish to fight; we ask only for the liberty of our
+brothers whom you hold prisoners. Give us back our brothers and we will
+return the Lady of Fashion and the Poet to you. We will also give you
+two hundred smoked frog hams for our brothers’ return.”
+
+“O queen of beauty and ruler of all the Saboes,” said the General when
+the Poet had finished, “we do not wish to fight, and we ask only for the
+return of our friends. For their safe return we will free your brothers.
+The hams you have offered we could not think of taking, for we took up
+arms against you, not for gain, but only for the freedom of the Lady of
+Fashion and the Poet.”
+
+The Queen was greatly pleased at the General’s words and arrangements
+were made for the exchange of the prisoners.
+
+That same day all the wild men, except the ones who were in the hospital
+and who were too sick to leave, were set free.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  THE GENERAL AND THE QUEEN OF THE WILD MEN AT THE
+  PEACE DANCE.—_Chapter Twenty-five._
+]
+
+They were taken, under guard of several soldiers, to the stream where
+the General had met the Queen. The Lady of Fashion and the Poet were
+waiting for them and the Teenie Weenie soldiers gave three mighty cheers
+when they saw their friends. The prisoners were exchanged and the Lady
+of Fashion and the Poet were taken to the Teenie Weenie camp, where they
+were given a royal welcome.
+
+The Lady of Fashion was so happy to be again among her friends that she
+did a very ladylike thing—she cried. The nurses cried and several of the
+men were seen to blow their tiny noses and blink their eyes.
+
+“Oh, I’m so happy to be safe with you all again,” cried the Lady of
+Fashion as she hugged the General for the tenth time. “I don’t know what
+those nasty wild men captured us for, we never could find out, but I
+will say for them that they were very good to us.”
+
+“Well, we are mighty glad to have you with us again,” said the General.
+“And it’s through the loyalty of every soldier in our army that your
+rescue has been accomplished.”
+
+“I know it. I know it,” cried the little lady, and she hugged every
+single man in the army except the Chinaman, who was so embarrassed that
+he ran off and hid in a hollow log for nearly an hour.
+
+The two nurses took the Lady of Fashion to their tent, where she washed
+until she was as clean as a drop of dew.
+
+That night the army gathered around a roaring bonfire and eagerly
+listened to the Poet while he told them how he and the Lady of Fashion
+had spent their time as prisoners of the wild men. When he had finished,
+the little people sang songs, told stories and gossiped until after
+midnight, when the General ordered everyone to bed.
+
+“It’s so nice to sleep in a clean, honest-to-goodness bed again,” said
+the Lady of Fashion when she crawled into one of the tiny cots in the
+nurses’ tent, but she didn’t sleep a great deal, for the three little
+women had so much to talk about. They whispered and giggled until early
+morning.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                          Chapter Twenty-Five
+
+                            THE PEACE DANCE
+
+
+“Well, folks,” announced the General the next morning as he sat down to
+breakfast with several of his officers, the Lady of Fashion and the
+Poet, “we must make ready for the march home. We have a long journey
+ahead of us and we must get started as soon as possible.”
+
+“I don’t see how we can,” answered the Doctor, who was helping himself
+to a piece of frog ham. “The Sailor is in no condition to be moved and,
+besides, I still have a couple of the wild men on my hands, who are in
+such shape I can’t leave them for a few days.”
+
+“That’s so! That’s so!” exclaimed the General. “Of course we’ll have to
+stay until our duty is done.”
+
+“My patients are all doing well and I don’t see why we won’t be able to
+get away in five or six days,” said the Doctor.
+
+The little soldiers were greatly disappointed when they heard that the
+army would not start immediately for home, for now that the war was over
+they were all anxious to return. However, they made the best of their
+time by fishing, swimming and playing games.
+
+One morning a sentinel came to the General’s tent, followed by one of
+the wild men.
+
+“This fellow has a message for you,” said the sentinel pointing to the
+wild man, who held a piece of folded birch bark in his hand. “There are
+about twenty-five more of ’em waiting out beyond our lines and they’ve
+each got a big bundle all wrapped up in leaves.”
+
+The General opened the note which the wild man handed him, but when he
+found it was written in the Sabo language he sent for the Poet.
+
+“You’ll have to translate this gibberish for me,” said the General when
+the Poet appeared. “It’s too much for me.”
+
+The Poet carefully read the note and then repeated it to the General.
+
+“It’s from the Queen and she is sending you greetings and some
+presents,” said the Poet. “She also invites you to the great Dance of
+Peace and Plenty. This is the dance the wild men dance whenever they
+make peace with their enemies. You must go to the dance, for that is the
+way the wild men have of showing that they want to be friendly.”
+
+“All right,” answered the General; “tell her I’ll come. Thank her for
+the presents and give her my regards.”
+
+A number of soldiers were sent out to bring in the presents the Queen
+had sent and when they were unwrapped the little people were surprised
+to find a number of fat frog hams, a quantity of wild rice, a large jar
+of fruit paste made out of wild berries, many nut meats and sweet seeds.
+
+“We ought to send a present to the Queen in return for all this food,”
+said the General. “What shall we send her?”
+
+“Send her that thimble the Dunce ruined trying to make a suit of armor,”
+answered the Poet, who had heard the story of the Dunce’s armor.
+
+“Not that old thimble!” exclaimed the General.
+
+“Sure,” laughed the Poet. “She will think that it is wonderful!”
+
+[Illustration]
+
+So the thimble was sent to the Queen, who prized it more than anything
+else she owned.
+
+On the appointed day the General set off for the dance with a number of
+the Teenie Weenies, and as they drew near the village they were met by a
+body of wild men who had been sent out as a guard of honor to escort the
+General into the village. He was led to a spot beneath a big bush where
+the Queen sat cross-legged on a wonderfully soft piece of cloth which
+had been thrown on the ground. Over her head hung another cloth which
+was fastened at the four corners to long poles held in the hands of four
+wild men.
+
+A great many wild men and women stood about an open spot under the bush,
+which had been swept until it was as clean as a pin. Many children ran
+about the place, some of them climbing onto the grass houses and into
+the trees. On the edge of the crowd stood several small animals, and
+some birds were perched in the bush overhead.
+
+The General made a low bow to the Queen and when she motioned for him to
+sit by her side, he sat down on the soft cloth. The Queen and the
+General talked for some time through the Poet, who translated for them.
+
+Presently the Queen gave a command to one of her warriors and instantly
+several men, who were sitting on the ground in front of the Queen, began
+to beat on drums. The drums were made out of a piece of hollow reed. The
+ends were covered with snake skin and they made a very pretty, mellow
+sound. Another man beat on a piece of wood which had been fixed to a
+split reed, while three or four women beat paddles together in time with
+the music.
+
+Instantly a number of voices broke into a loud song from behind a house
+near by and presently the dancers came hopping and prancing into the
+cleared spot before the Queen. First came a warrior with a long spear
+and when he danced directly in front of the Queen he broke the spear in
+two over his knee. Next came a man with a queer seed pod over his head
+and in one hand he carried a whip with which he struck the warrior every
+now and then. In the other hand he carried a dried seed pod which
+rattled loudly in time with the song. The next dancer wore a frog’s head
+and hopped in time with the music, much after the fashion of a frog.
+Several girls followed the frog man, carrying plates of smoked frog ham
+and rice cakes.
+
+“The first man in the dance,” explained the Poet to the General, “is the
+Spirit of War. He broke the spear to show you that the war was over and
+the next man rattled the seed pod and struck him with the whip to scare
+him away, which means that the wild men are through with war and wish to
+get rid of the War Spirit. The frog man represents the frog meat which
+the wild men eat, and his funny dance means that good times are coming,
+for you see the pretty girls follow with plates of rice cakes and meat.”
+
+The dancers performed for several minutes and then the man with the whip
+and rattle chased the Spirit of War over the hill out of sight, which
+meant that the Spirit of War was gone for good.
+
+After the dance a great fire was built and when a heap of hot ashes had
+burned, the wild men wrapped several frog hams in sassafras leaves and
+put them into the hot bed of ashes to roast. When the hams were cooked
+they were cut into slices and served to the Teenie Weenies and the wild
+men. Wonderfully delicious rice cakes were also served and the Teenie
+Weenies ate until they were quite filled. The greedy Dunce ate so much
+he became quite ill and had to be carried back to the Teenie Weenie
+camp, where the Doctor was kept busy most of the night putting heated
+buttons on his aching tummy, until the pain was gone.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                           Chapter Twenty-Six
+
+                                  HOME
+
+
+                    Put a bean on to boil, Mr. Cook!
+                    Put a bean on to boil, Mr. Cook!
+                      For an army, it must eat
+                      And rest its weary feet;
+                    So put on a bean, Mr. Cook!
+
+The Teenie Weenie soldiers sang this song as they sat about their tiny
+camp fire one evening shortly after the peace dance. They were all
+happy, for they were to start for home in the morning. The Sailor was
+now well enough to stand the long trip and that was all that had been
+holding them back.
+
+“He can stand the trip,” the Doctor said, “if he is carried in some way
+that will not jolt him. He was badly wounded and I wouldn’t care to have
+him ride in one of the army wagons, as they are much too rough.”
+
+“We can make a litter and get two mice to carry it,” suggested Tess
+Bone.
+
+“That’s a good idea,” said the Doctor. “He will rest that way in fine
+shape.”
+
+The Turk and the Old Soldier agreed to make the litter and in a short
+time they had built such a cozy one the Sailor was quite pleased with
+it.
+
+“Crickety!” exclaimed the Dunce when he saw the litter, “I wish I was
+wounded so I could ride in that instead of walkin’ all the way home.”
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The army wagons were loaded and early in the morning the little army
+began the long journey home. First the cannon and then the baggage and
+wagons had to be moved across the river on the raft. It took the little
+people all day to move across the river, for many trips had to be made
+with the clumsy raft. But at the end of the day not a single Teenie
+Weenie was left on Sabo Island.
+
+As Queen Mooie had given the Teenie Weenies so many presents of frog
+hams, rice cakes, delicious seeds and many hickory nut meats, the little
+people were well supplied with good food. Every evening after the day’s
+march the happy little army ate their meal gathered around a glowing
+camp fire. They laughed and joked, sang songs, told stories and gossiped
+with the many birds and animals of the woods who gathered about the camp
+fire.
+
+Often the Teenie Weenies listened to a strange tale of the forest, told
+by some owl or chipmunk, and quite often the birds sang to them.
+
+One evening a wicked old weasel came prowling around the camp. The
+little folks were quite alarmed about it, for the old fellow hung around
+for a long time. They could see his wicked green eyes shining in the
+light from the camp fire and when the General asked him what he wanted,
+he never answered. At last the General told several of the soldiers to
+fire off their rifles.
+
+“Shoot in the air over his head and give him a good scare,” ordered the
+General. “I think that will fix him.”
+
+At the first sound of the guns the weasel quickly disappeared into the
+night and nothing more was seen of him, although the men kept a mighty
+close watch for several days.
+
+When the army came to the place where they had built the bridge, they
+found the squirrel whom they had hired to guard it, on duty.
+
+“Well, here I am,” shouted the squirrel. “And here is the bridge just as
+you left it.”
+
+“You have done your duty well,” said the General, and he ordered the
+Cook to pay the squirrel the ten sunflower seeds and the hickory nuts
+which had been promised him.
+
+“Well, I always believe in doin’ my duty,” said the squirrel. “If I
+agree to do a thing I always stick to my word—I’d rather lose every
+whisker I’ve got than go back on my word.”
+
+A bluejay who was sitting in a bush near by snickered and the squirrel
+gave him a nasty look. The Teenie Weenies thought for a minute that
+there might be a quarrel, but the bluejay flew off, so they felt much
+easier.
+
+After a pleasant talk with the squirrel, the General ordered the army to
+march on and as long as the Teenie Weenies were in sight the squirrel
+waved to them from the top of an old stump.
+
+The trip seemed to agree with the Sailor. He grew stronger and stronger
+under the watchful eye of the Doctor and the two dainty nurses. He was
+fed on broth and a tiny bit of poached bird’s egg each day, and as the
+army drew near home he was almost strong enough to walk.
+
+One day the Teenie Weenies were surprised to hear a bird shout to them
+from a bush over their heads and when they looked up they saw it was
+Tilly Titter, the English Sparrow—an old and trusted friend.
+
+Of course the General ordered a halt, while the men gathered around the
+sparrow and asked many questions.
+
+“How are the twins?” asked Mr. Lover.
+
+“Fine! Just fine!” cried the bird. “I was over to the village yesterday
+and they were playin’ foot ball with a gooseberry. They are as husky as
+a caterpillar in a mulberry bush. Your wife is as fat as butter; I’ll
+bet she has gained half an ounce since you left her.”
+
+After the Teenie Weenies had learned all the news from home the General
+gave a message to Tilly and asked her to deliver it to the Teenie Weenie
+village.
+
+“You can just bet your last fish worm I’ll carry that message as quick
+as I can,” said the bird. “Everyone in the village will be tickled to
+death to hear that you are so near home. Grandpa will be so ’appy ’e’ll
+shout ’imself ’oarse.”
+
+Spreading her wings, Tilly Titter flew into the air and quickly
+disappeared in the direction of the Teenie Weenie village.
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                          Chapter Twenty-seven
+
+                            THE GRAND REVIEW
+
+
+Tilly Titter flew as she never flew before and in a short time she
+landed on the ground beside the shoe house, her feathers all ruffled up
+with excitement.
+
+“I’ve got news,” she shouted, as the little women gathered about her.
+“I’ve just come from the General and the army will be home in about
+three days.”
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“Is my husband well?” shouted Mrs. Lover.
+
+“He’s as healthy as a dandelion and as pink as a rose bud,” answered
+Tilly.
+
+“How’s the Poet and the Lady of Fashion?” asked Grandpa.
+
+“Well and ’appy,” cried Tilly. “As I was a sayin’, the army will be ’ome
+in about three days. The General said to tell you that they would arrive
+on Friday afternoon if everthing goes well. He says for you to have a
+good supper ready for the boys and to have plenty, for they will be as
+hungry as young robins.”
+
+“Is the Sailor getting along nicely?” asked Miss Guff.
+
+“Fine as a fiddle! Fine as a fiddle!” answered the sparrow. “Wants to
+walk, ’e’s feelin’ so well, but the Doctor makes ’im stay in the litter
+and ride.”
+
+“Well, we have got to get busy and do somethin’ for the boys,” cried
+Grandpa. “We’ve got to give ’em a big feed and decorate the place with
+flags and show ’em we’re glad to see ’em.”
+
+“We’ll get up a grand supper for them,” cried Mrs. Lover, “and we’ll
+have a dance afterwards.”
+
+“I’ll bring over a big chunk of cheese,” cried the mouse that had joined
+the crowd.
+
+“I’ll get some fat worms for the supper,” cried Tilly, and instantly she
+blushed a deep brown. “Oh, I forget you don’t eat worms. Well, I’ll get
+some sunflower seeds.”
+
+“I’ll donate a few nuts,” said Nick, the squirrel, who had been hoping
+for a chance to speak.
+
+“Oh, I forgot to say that the General said ’e would come in ahead of the
+army so ’e could review them as they marched into the village,” cried
+Tilly.
+
+“He’s going to review the troops, did you say?” asked Grandpa, who was
+hard of hearing.
+
+“Yes!” shouted Tilly, right into the old gentleman’s ear. “The General
+is goin’ to review the army.”
+
+“Well, we got to get a reviewing stand ready for him,” cried Grandpa.
+
+“I’ll help,” shouted the mouse, “and I’ll get some mice to help, too.”
+
+“All right, get ’em!” cried Grandpa. “The sooner we get to work the
+better it will be.”
+
+In a short time the Teenie Weenies were as busy as bees in a clover
+field. The little women set to work cooking and baking. They made cakes
+and cookies by the thimble full. They made ginger cookies, nut cookies,
+chocolate cake, fruit cake and half an English walnut full of doughnuts,
+besides all sorts of other good things.
+
+Grandpa put eight mice, a chipmunk and half a dozen bugs to work getting
+the place ready for the returning soldiers. They cleaned up the rubbish
+under the rose-bush, they moved all the desks out of the schoolhouse,
+where the dinner and dance were to be held, and they made a reviewing
+stand out of the top of a candy box.
+
+Nick, the squirrel, worked hard opening nuts. He gnawed so many his
+teeth became sore, but he never complained, for he was a very patriotic
+squirrel and most fond of the Teenie Weenies.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The little folks decorated the village with Teenie Weenie flags and
+bunting and when the time arrived for the army to march home the village
+was crowded with all sorts of visitors. Bugs, mice, squirrels, birds,
+chipmunks, and even a few chickens and ducks, crowded under the
+rose-bush.
+
+The General rode in ahead of the army and took his place on the
+reviewing stand amid the wildest shouting and waving of flags, but when
+the troops came marching into view there was such a squealing of
+squirrels and mice and squawking of chickens, ducks and birds, one could
+hardly hear oneself think. Grandpa shouted so hard that he had one of
+his choking fits, and a mouse had to pound him on the back until he
+could get his breath.
+
+When the review was over there was much hugging and kissing and some
+crying, for most of the little women shed a few tears of happiness, but
+that’s a strange way women folks have of showing they are happy. One old
+hen cried so hard she had to be led away. A duck insisted on kissing the
+Dunce and a mouse hugged Paddy Pinn so hard it nearly broke his arm.
+
+After the little soldiers had visited for a time they were called into
+the old derby hat for supper and such a supper as they had! There was
+roasted bird’s egg, frog ham, escalloped hickory nut, walnut au gratin,
+creamed hearts of sunflower seed, water cress and wild cherry salad, and
+cakes and cookies and sliced grape and ice cream.
+
+When the little soldiers had eaten until they could not hold another
+morsel, the General arose from his seat at the head of the big table and
+made a speech.
+
+“Friends and men of the Teenie Weenie army,” he began, “I want to thank
+you for your loyal and hearty service. You have gone through hardships
+and you have risked your lives in battle without complaint. You have
+done this to aid those in trouble and nothing greater can be said of
+your deeds than that they were done willingly. Men, I am proud to have
+been your leader.”
+
+“Three cheers for the army!” shouted a mouse who had been helping to
+wait on table, and the cheers were given with a will.
+
+Next the Lady of Fashion made a little speech. She very prettily thanked
+the General and the army for having rescued the Poet and herself from
+the wild men and as she sat down there were tears in her pretty eyes.
+The Poet spoke and Grandpa made a speech about the great war in
+forty-two, but few heard what the old gentleman said, for they were
+anxious to talk to one another about the great events of the rescue of
+their friends.
+
+“Friends!” shouted Paddy Pinn, when Grandpa had sat down, “I think the
+Dunce ought to explain to the rest of us just why that old duck was so
+anxious to kiss him.” Every one yelled so loudly for the Dunce that he
+was forced to stand up, but he was so embarrassed he couldn’t speak a
+word and the Teenie Weenies laughed so hard they cried.
+
+When the tables had been cleared away the orchestra started playing and
+in a few minutes the little folks were swinging around to the music of
+“The Lady of Fashion Waltz.” They danced until nearly morning—in fact it
+was broad daylight when the tired little soldiers crawled into their
+tiny beds, every one of them mighty thankful that they were safely home
+again.
+
+              “The war is over, our duty is done;
+               Hang up the pistol, the sword and the gun.”
+
+               Rufus Rhyme,
+
+                    _Teenie Weenie Poet_.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+ ● Transcriber’s Notes:
+    ○ Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
+    ○ Typographical errors were silently corrected.
+    ○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only
+      when a predominant form was found in this book.
+    ○ Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_);
+      text that was bold by “equal” signs (=bold=).
+
+
+
+
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-  <h1 class='c003'><span class='xlarge'><i>The</i></span><br /> <br /><span class='xxlarge'>TEENIE WEENIES</span> <br /> <br /><span class='xlarge'>IN THE WILDWOOD</span></h1>
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-    <div class='c000'>BY</div>
-    <div><span class='large'>WILLIAM DONAHEY</span></div>
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-    <div><i>Illustrated by</i></div>
-    <div><i>THE AUTHOR</i></div>
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-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c001'>
-    <div><span class='large'>The Reilly &amp; Lee Co.</span></div>
-    <div><span class='large'>Chicago</span></div>
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-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>&nbsp;</p>
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-<div class='pbb'>
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-<img src='images/i006.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic003'>
-<p>Copyright, 1923, by<br /><span class='sc'>The Reilly &amp; Lee Co.</span><br />———<br />All Rights Reserved<br />———<br />PRINTED IN<br />THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-<p class='c006'><span class='small'>Mr. Donahey is of the staff of The Chicago Tribune, and to that
-newspaper the author-artist and the publishers extend thanks for courtesies
-in connection with the publication of this book.</span></p>
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 class='c007'>LIST OF CHAPTERS</h2>
-</div>
-<table class='table0' summary=''>
-<colgroup>
-<col width='10%' />
-<col width='75%' />
-<col width='15%' />
-</colgroup>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'><span class='small'>Chapter</span></td>
-    <td class='c009'>&nbsp;</td>
-    <td class='c010'><span class='small'>Page</span></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>1</td>
-    <td class='c009'>Alarming News</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch01'>7</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>2</td>
-    <td class='c009'>The Captured Teenie Weenies</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch02'>11</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>3</td>
-    <td class='c009'>Campaign Preparations</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch03'>16</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>4</td>
-    <td class='c009'>A Warning in Camp</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch04'>20</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>5</td>
-    <td class='c009'>The Queen of the Wild Men</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch05'>24</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>6</td>
-    <td class='c009'>The Storm</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch06'>26</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>7</td>
-    <td class='c009'>A Suspension Bridge</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch07'>29</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>8</td>
-    <td class='c009'>A Badly Frightened Army</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch08'>33</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>9</td>
-    <td class='c009'>The Captives Attend a Dance</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch09'>36</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>10</td>
-    <td class='c009'>Help from a Ground Robin</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch10'>39</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>11</td>
-    <td class='c009'>The Poet Learns Sabo</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch11'>44</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>12</td>
-    <td class='c009'>Gogo’s Brave Act</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch12'>48</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>13</td>
-    <td class='c009'>The Attack</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch13'>52</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>14</td>
-    <td class='c009'>On the Wild Men’s Island</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch14'>56</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>15</td>
-    <td class='c009'>A Council of War</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch15'>59</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>16</td>
-    <td class='c009'>Wild Men Bottled Up</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch16'>63</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>17</td>
-    <td class='c009'>The Dunce in Disgrace</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch17'>66</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>18</td>
-    <td class='c009'>Consulting an Engineer</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch18'>70</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>19</td>
-    <td class='c009'>The Old Soldier’s War Machine</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch19'>74</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>20</td>
-    <td class='c009'>The Dunce Looks for Excitement</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch20'>79</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>21</td>
-    <td class='c009'>The Scouts Have a Narrow Escape</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch21'>83</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>22</td>
-    <td class='c009'>The Battle</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch22'>89</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>23</td>
-    <td class='c009'>The Red Cross</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch23'>92</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>24</td>
-    <td class='c009'>Let There Be Peace</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch24'>96</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>25</td>
-    <td class='c009'>The Peace Dance</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch25'>103</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>26</td>
-    <td class='c009'>Home</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch26'>109</a></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td class='c008'>27</td>
-    <td class='c009'>The Grand Review</td>
-    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch27'>114</a></td>
-  </tr>
-</table>
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
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-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c005'>
-    <div><span class='xlarge'>The Teenie Weenies</span></div>
-    <div><span class='xlarge'>In the Wildwood</span></div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch01' class='c007'>Chapter One<br /> <br />ALARMING NEWS</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>The Teenie Weenies had known for some time that a
-tribe of tiny wild men lived in a big swamp many
-teenie weenie miles from the shoe house. Field mice and
-birds had carried the news of these strange little people
-to the Teenie Weenies. The wild men lived in the heart
-of a big forest and they spoke a language quite different
-from the Teenie Weenies.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“These wild men are very cruel,” a friendly bird told
-the Teenie Weenies. “They are called Saboes, or frog
-eaters, and they would just as soon destroy a person as
-look at him.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well, they will never hurt us,” the General said, “for
-we shall leave them alone and, besides, they live a great
-distance from the shoe house.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well, you’d better watch out for them; there are a
-great many of these wild men and you can never tell
-when they might come along,” said the bird, who was a
-mourning dove and always looked on the dark side of
-things.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Teenie Weenies didn’t worry about the wild men
-much, for they lived so far away and, besides, there was
-the Teenie Weenie army ever ready to protect them
-against an enemy. But the little people soon had cause
-for worry, for a dreadful thing happened.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>One afternoon a snail raced slowly up to the shoe
-house with alarming news—the Lady of Fashion and the
-Poet had been captured by the wild men!</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Gracious!” gasped the General. “How did you find
-this out?”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I-I-I-I saw them captured,” answered the snail. “The
-wild men took them and put them in their boat and paddled
-down the creek. There must have been five or six of
-the wild men. They all had bows and arrows and spears
-too, and they looked terribly fierce.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Ring the bell,” cried the General. “We’ll have a great
-council and see what can be done.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Several of the Teenie Weenies ran to the old derby hat
-which served the little people as a school house and armory,
-and began furiously to ring the tiny bell. All the
-birds and animals who lived near the little village knew
-that when the bell rang long and loud it was a signal for
-them to come. In a few minutes, two birds flew under the
-rose bush where the village stood and one by one, several
-mice, a squirrel and a couple of intelligent-looking
-bugs appeared.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Friends,” said the General, addressing the assembled
-crowd, “I have terrible news! The Lady of Fashion and
-the Poet have been captured by the wild men. This—this
-snail here has just brought the report.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Teenie Weenies and their friends were much
-shocked by the news, while the snail strutted about, feeling
-quite important at being the bearer of such an exciting
-message.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i011.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>“When did this happen?” asked the mouse with a
-squeaky voice.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“About five or six hours ago,” answered the snail. “I
-was walkin’ near the creek when—”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Five or six hours ago!” shouted the General, turning
-on the snail. “For the land’s sake, why didn’t you
-come immediately?”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I-I-I did,” answered the snail, with an injured expression.
-“I came just as fast as I could crawl.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Of course you did,” said the General kindly. “I beg
-your pardon. I forgot for the moment that you do not
-move as fast as most of us.” The snail, who had rather a
-sensitive nature, was quite hurt by the General’s words
-and it instantly shrank back into its shell.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>After some talk it was decided to scatter up and down
-the creek in search of the lost Teenie Weenies. The birds
-flew up and down the creek until it was quite too dark for
-them to see, while the little people and the rest of their
-friends hunted all through the night without a sign of the
-Lady of Fashion and the Poet.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i012.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch02' class='c007'>Chapter Two<br /> <br />THE CAPTURED TEENIE WEENIES</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>While the Teenie Weenies were searching along
-the creek for the Lady of Fashion and the Poet,
-those two little people were being rapidly paddled down
-the stream and away from their friends.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Lady of Fashion and the Poet had gone to the
-bank of the creek for a picnic. They had eaten their
-lunch and the Lady of Fashion suggested that they walk
-down the stream in search of wild flowers. They had only
-gone a little ways when the wild men, who had been
-watching them, suddenly leaped upon them from behind
-a big bush. In a few seconds the wild little fellows had
-carried their tiny prisoners to their canoe, after having
-securely bound their hands behind them. Lifting the Teenie
-Weenies into the boat the wild men jumped in after
-them and began to paddle down the creek.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“This is a pretty bag of seeds,” moaned the Poet as the
-boat shot rapidly down the stream. “It’s hard to tell
-what will become of us now.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“If—if we could just get word to the General,” whispered
-the Lady of Fashion, “he’d bring the army and
-come after these—these wild men and rescue us.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“There’s no chance of writing a note and dropping it
-somewhere, with our hands tied behind us.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I’ll tell you what we can do,” whispered the Lady of
-Fashion. “If we should see a bird we can call to it and
-ask it to tell the General that we have been captured.”</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i014.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>But the two Teenie Weenies never came close enough
-to a bird all that day, for the wild men paddled their canoe
-near the shore of the creek under the cover of the
-overhanging ferns and grass.</p>
-<div  class='figcenter id007'>
-<img src='images/i015.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic003'>
-<p><span class='color_blue'><span class='sc'>The Queen of the Wild Men, sitting on the back of her turtle.</span>—<i>Chapter Five.</i></span></p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>As the canoe floated along down the stream the Lady
-of Fashion and the Poet spent their time studying the
-strange little wild men, or Saboes, as they were called.
-They were sturdily built little chaps, but a trifle smaller
-than the Teenie Weenies. They had dark brown skins,
-bushy hair, and around their fierce-looking eyes were
-painted circles of white. One or two of the wild men wore
-shirts with skirts almost to their knees, but the most of
-them were dressed only in trousers which were made
-from the skins of young frogs. Their spears were made
-of long sticks with a sharp fish bone tied to the end, and
-several of them carried bows and arrows, while their war
-clubs were made by fastening sharp blackberry thorns to
-a short handle. Many of the little wild men wore strings
-of beautifully carved raspberry beads about their necks
-and arms, which the little fellows called “gum gum,” the
-Sabo name for money.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The canoe, which the little men paddled very skillfully,
-was made from a huge cucumber, and on the end of
-the boat was painted a queer face. This face was supposed
-to look like a cat and was meant to frighten the
-Saboes’ enemies.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>When evening came on and it began to grow dark, the
-wild men stopped on a sandy beach, where they made
-the two Teenie Weenies understand by motions that they
-would rest a while.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Several of the Saboes bent over the stem of a tall dandelion,
-while one of the little men gathered an armful of
-the soft, fluffy down, which he put on the ground and
-covered with dry grass and sticks. He then took two
-sticks and rubbed them together so hard that they grew
-very hot and soon a spark fell into the dandelion down,
-which blazed up and quickly set fire to the grass and
-sticks.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Presently two of the wild men, who had disappeared
-in the direction of the creek, returned and one of them
-carried the leg of a frog over his shoulder. The little men
-cut the leg into great chunks almost as big as a pea and
-these were soon roasting over the fire.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Lady of Fashion and the Poet sat on a log beside
-the fire and although the Lady of Fashion tried hard
-to keep from crying, every now and then a tear would
-trickle down her tiny cheek.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Don’t worry,” said the Poet. “The General will find
-some way to come to our rescue. He won’t let any harm
-come to us.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I-I-I s-s-s-suppose so,” sobbed the little lady. “But
-I-I-I haven’t a clean handkerchief and—and—and my
-hair is a sight!”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>In spite of the fact that the Teenie Weenies were terribly
-worried, the roasting meat smelled wonderfully
-good and when it was done the prisoners’ hands were
-untied and they were each given a piece. Both ate a good
-portion and agreed that it was delicious. They wiped
-their fingers on a leaf and then the wild men tied
-their hands again and made them understand that they
-were to sleep.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>All night long the wild men kept up a bright fire. They
-took turns sleeping and watching their prisoners, but the
-two Teenie Weenies needed very little watching, for they
-were quite tired out with the day’s experience and slept
-most of the night.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>At the very first break of day the wild men were
-awake and after a hurried breakfast of frog ham and a
-blackberry which one of the men found, they once more
-pushed out in the canoe and paddled down the stream.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Two days later they landed on the island where the
-wild men lived. When the two Teenie Weenies stepped
-out of the canoe a great number of the wild little people
-came running toward them. The women and children
-stared at them in great astonishment, while the men
-danced and swung their clubs and spears in a most terrible
-way.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i019.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch03' class='c007'>Chapter Three<br /> <br />CAMPAIGN PREPARATIONS</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>All night long the Teenie Weenies searched without
-success for the captured Lady of Fashion and the
-Poet. The Indian found the spot where they had been surprised
-and taken. Their tiny footprints and the tracks
-of the wild men, as well as the spot where the canoe had
-been pushed into the water, showed plainly in the moist
-sand.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Him wild man, him get good start,” grunted the Indian
-after he had studied the footprints for some time.
-“We no catch ’um before him get home.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I’m afraid not,” answered the General. “If that slow-poke
-snail had been a little faster we might have caught
-them.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Ugh!” was all the Indian said.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>When all the Teenie Weenies had returned to the little
-village after the search, the General called a meeting.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Men,” he began, “we have got to do something and
-do it quickly!”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Call out the army, why don’t you?” shouted an excited
-mouse that had joined the crowd.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I believe we’ll have to,” answered the General. “I
-hate to use the army, but I don’t see what else we can
-do. These wild men are very savage and I have been told
-that there are many of them. If we go after the Lady of
-Fashion and the Poet, we are going on a hard and dangerous
-mission. We will have many long miles to march
-and there—there may be fighting. Now, men, I will put
-it to a vote. All those in favor of sending the army after
-the wild men in order to free our friends will say ‘yes.’”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Yes!” shouted every single Teenie Weenie, so loudly
-that they made the leaves tremble on the old rose bush
-overhead.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i021.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>The little people started at once to prepare for the trip
-into the forest, for it was there that the wild men lived. It
-takes a great deal of work to outfit an army and the little
-men were soon buzzing about as busy as bees.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Two squirrels offered their services, but the General
-was forced to refuse them, for they were such big eaters
-that the army could not afford to feed them.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Several mice were hired to pull the wagons and the
-cannons and also for the officers to ride.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>A great quantity of food and tools had to be brought
-out and loaded into the wagons. It took seven hundred
-grains of wheat, six hundred grains of corn, thirty raisins,
-six dried prunes, fifty-eight beans, to say nothing of
-cocoa, salt, pepper, baking powder, picks, shovels, pulleys,
-ropes, tents, a great quantity of cheese for the mice-horses
-and many other things.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>It was quite late that night before the wagons were
-loaded and most of the little soldiers slept in their uniforms,
-for the army was to start into the forest soon after
-daylight.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The army was to be made up of a division of ten infantrymen,
-two artillerymen, two mounted scouts, two
-cooks, a doctor and two nurses.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The General was in command, with the Old Soldier
-as chief of staff, while Paddy Pinn had command of the
-artillery.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>When the little soldiers had said their last good-byes,
-the men stepped into line and at the gruff command of the
-General they swung away towards the great forest in
-which the wild men lived. The Indian and the Cowboy,
-mounted on mice, rode ahead of the army and picked out
-the best and easiest road for the soldiers, while the Turk,
-who was chosen as the aviator, flew above the army on
-the back of a bird, ever watchful for enemies.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>At noon the army halted for lunch beneath the shade
-of a lilac bush, where each man eagerly devoured the
-grain of baked wheat which had been given to each soldier
-that morning as his ration.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>After they had rested a bit, and when they had filled
-their tiny canteens with water from an old tin can, the
-command was given to “fall in.” Once more the army
-took up the march.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The army had a hard time that afternoon, for the road
-it traveled was very rough. The little soldiers had to stop
-every now and then to chop weeds and dandelions from
-the road so the wagons and cannon could pass. Late in
-the afternoon the Turk told the General he had sighted
-an excellent place for a camp, and all the tired little chaps
-were made very happy when the order was given to make
-camp for the night.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i023.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch04' class='c007'>Chapter Four<br /> <br />A WARNING IN CAMP</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>The first day’s march was very hard on the soldiers,
-for the sun was hot and the little fellows were not
-used to such long tramps. When the order came for the
-army to break ranks and make camp ready for the night,
-the soldiers worked with a will unloading the wagons
-and putting up the tents. The kitchen tent was put
-up first so the Cook and the Chinaman would lose
-no time in getting dinner ready for the hungry army.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The mice that pulled the army wagons were given a
-good feed of cheese and they were quartered in a hollow
-tree for the night. The airplane ate ten grains of bird
-seed and hopped onto the limb of the bush under which
-the tiny camp lay.</p>
-<div  class='figleft id008'>
-<img src='images/i024.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-<p class='c004'>When the camp had been put in order for the night,
-mess call was sounded and the soldiers formed in line with
-their tin plates. The Cook had prepared
-two boiled beans and a thimbleful of
-corn soup for the army. Each man was
-given a plate of soup, a big spoonful of
-bean and a large piece of bread.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>After dinner the little soldiers gathered
-on the bank of a puddle of water,
-where they bathed their aching feet,
-while others took off their uniforms and enjoyed a
-good swim. The foolish Dunce dived head first into the
-pool without first testing the water to see how deep it
-was and he nearly broke his silly neck, for the hole was
-only three Teenie Weenie feet (a little over an inch and a
-half) deep.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Believe me!” exclaimed the Dunce after he was pulled
-out of the water and sat on the bank rubbing a big bump
-on his head, “I’m through diving. I wouldn’t dive into a
-teacup full of water even if I could see the bottom.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The General decided to let the army rest for a day, as
-the soldiers all complained of sore feet and, besides, one
-of the horses was bothered with a lame leg, which had
-been hurt in a mouse trap a few days before. The men
-were given a little light rifle practice, while Paddy Pinn
-tried out the cannon at long range shooting, bringing
-down a dandelion in three shots at the remarkable range
-of four hundred and twenty Teenie Weenie feet (17 feet
-in our measurement).</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The noise of the cannon attracted the attention of
-many birds, squirrels, bugs and field mice, who gathered
-around the edge of the camp with wide-open eyes.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“What’s the trouble?” asked a bright-eyed chipmunk.
-“Is there a war or somethin’?”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“No,” answered the General kindly. “We are on our
-way to rescue a couple of Teenie Weenies who have been
-stolen by the wild men who live in the heart of the big
-woods.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well, you’d better go back,” warned the Chipmunk.
-“Those wild men are a bad lot and they are as thick as
-bees in clover time.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“We are not afraid,” answered the General. “We will
-keep on until we have rescued our friends.”</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i026.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>“All right! All right!” said the Chipmunk solemnly.
-“I wouldn’t give a wormy chestnut for your lives, but
-that’s your choosing, not mine. Let me tell you one thing—don’t
-forget that I warned you.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Thank you just the same for your advice,” said the
-General, “but we must go on.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“All right!” muttered the Chipmunk. “But remember
-I warned you.” And shaking his head wisely he scampered
-off into the thick weeds.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The little soldiers rolled themselves up in their tiny
-blankets almost immediately after supper and almost before
-the sun had disappeared over the western hills they
-were sound asleep, for they were to be up and well on the
-march before daylight again would appear.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i027.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch05' class='c007'>Chapter Five<br /> <br />THE QUEEN OF THE WILD MEN</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>Although the wild men who had captured the
-Lady of Fashion and the Poet were good to them,
-the two Teenie Weenies nevertheless were much alarmed
-as to what might happen, for the wild men kept their captives’
-hands securely tied, and they watched them closely
-at all times.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>When the wild men brought the two Teenie Weenies
-to the island where the savages lived, the captives were
-the center of much interest.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Sabo men and women came swarming down to
-the water’s edge from all directions. They shouted and
-jabbered in a language the Lady of Fashion and the Poet
-had never before heard. Some came gliding out of the
-tall grass, while others peered from behind bushes and
-pebbles, quite as though they were a little afraid of the
-two helpless Teenie Weenies.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id009'>
-<img src='images/i028.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>The women were curious
-little people. They
-were dressed in short
-dresses which came down
-to their knees and the
-cloth was woven out of
-thistledown and was
-wonderfully soft. The women dressed their hair in a
-strange manner. The Lady of Fashion could hardly
-keep from laughing at them, for it was coiled up to a
-point high in the air, shaped much like an ice cream cone.
-Most of the men were dressed in frogskin trousers, while
-the children wore bits of cloth about their waists.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The men and women gathered around and carefully
-examined the clothes of the two Teenie Weenies, especially
-the Poet’s glasses, which were considered very wonderful
-by the wild little people.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>After a time the Lady of Fashion and the Poet were
-led along a path toward the center of the island, followed
-by a great crowd of Saboes. Presently one of the wild men
-who was walking ahead suddenly dropped to his knees
-and kissed the ground. Looking up, the two Teenie
-Weenies saw a very big turtle with a very short, fat
-woman sitting on its back. A man who walked beside
-the turtle with a hook in his hand, gave the turtle a sharp
-blow on the nose and the big fellow pulled his head into
-his shell and stopped.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well!” exclaimed the Lady of Fashion. “I wonder
-who this fine lady can be.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Why, why, this must be a sort of queen,” answered
-the Poet. “Maybe she is the queen of the wild men.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Poet had guessed correctly. The fat lady on the
-turtle was no other than Her Royal Highness, Queen
-Mooie, ruler of the wild men.</p>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch06' class='c007'>Chapter Six<br /> <br />THE STORM</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>Before the sun had time to peep over the eastern
-hills the third morning, the little army was on the
-march. All day the soldiers tramped along, stopping
-every now and then to rest a few minutes beneath the
-shade of a friendly dandelion or burdock. All along the
-line of march many bugs, ants and birds gathered by the
-roadside to cheer the brave little army as it trudged by.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“General,” said the Turk, as he slid off the back of the
-airplane, “it looks to me as though we were going to have
-a storm and I would suggest that you lose no time in finding
-a dry place to house the army.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“All right,” answered the General, “I’ll order the Indian
-to ride ahead and select a place to camp.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Even as the General spoke, the little soldiers heard the
-distant rumble of thunder, and the Indian, putting spurs
-to his mouse, quickly bounded away in search of a camp.
-Presently he returned with the good news that he had
-found a fine place to weather the storm.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i031.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>A hollow log had been selected for the camp and the
-little men soon pulled the cannon and army wagons into
-the dark hole. In a short time the storm broke with great
-fury and it was a mighty good thing that the little army
-was protected by the hollow log, for the burdock leaves
-under which the Teenie Weenies always sought shelter
-from the rain would have been a poor place in such a big
-storm. The poor mice who pulled the army wagons trembled
-in terror at the loud peals of thunder. The Dunce
-shook so much with fright he almost loosened the buttons
-of his uniform.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The storm passed quickly and the General ordered
-the army to be on its way, but the marching was hard and
-the men made slow progress, for the ground was muddy.
-The army marched around most of the mud holes, but one
-was too long and they were forced to wade through the
-thick mud. Most of the soldiers got over safely, but one
-of the wagons stuck in the mud and to make things
-worse, one of the back wheels was broken in trying to
-pull it out.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“This is a pretty pickle!” growled the Old Soldier,
-sliding off his mouse at the edge of the puddle. “We’ll
-have to work fast to get this wagon out before dark.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“We might just as well unload the wagon, for we will
-never be able to pull it out while it’s loaded,” said the
-General.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>As the mud was quite deep, several of the soldiers
-were ordered to put on bathing suits and carry the baggage
-to solid ground. After much hard work the wagon
-was finally pulled out of the mud, although it took half
-the army and six of the mice to do it. As it was quite late
-in the afternoon, the army went into camp, while the Turk
-and the Old Soldier set to work to mend the broken
-wheel.</p>
-<div  class='figcenter id010'>
-<img src='images/i033.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic003'>
-<p><span class='color_blue'><span class='sc'>The Teenie Weenie captives view the fire-dance of the Wild Men.</span>—<i>Chapter Nine.</i></span></p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch07' class='c007'>Chapter Seven<br /> <br />A SUSPENSION BRIDGE</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>The General fumed and fussed over the delay caused
-by the broken wheel.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“It’s just one thing after another,” he grumbled. “If
-it isn’t one thing it’s something else.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well, General, it won’t do a bit of good to worry,”
-said Tess Bone, one of the Red Cross Nurses. “We’ll have
-to do the best we can and that’s all anybody can do—even
-a Teenie Weenie can’t do more.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Of course, of course,” answered the General, as he
-paced up and down before his tiny tent. “I know it
-doesn’t do a bit of good to worry, but we must hurry if we
-ever expect to rescue the Lady of Fashion and the Poet.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The anxious General had the army up before daylight
-the next morning. They ate a hurried breakfast and were
-well on the way before the sun came up. In fact, the
-Dunce marched nearly an hour before he was fully
-awake.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The big rain of the day before had left many puddles
-along the way and the little army often had to splash
-through them.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>With the help of the scouts, the army was able to find
-the best roads, for the Indian and the Cowboy, mounted
-on mice, rode ahead and picked out the best path. The
-Turk was of much help, too, in picking out the best roads,
-for he was able to see a great distance from the back of
-his bird airplane.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“General,” said the Cowboy one afternoon as he rode
-up to the commander of the little army, “I believe there’s
-more trouble ahead of us.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“What!” shouted the General. “Great guns, now
-what’s the trouble?”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well, sir, there’s a stream of water and I’m afraid
-we’ll be forced to march a long way out of our road before
-we can find a place shallow enough to cross. I talked to
-a field mouse who seemed to be familiar with the country,
-and he said there was no place where the stream
-could be crossed for many miles in each direction.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I hope, sir, you were careful not to say where you
-were going,” said the General. “We are now nearing the
-land of our enemies and we are liable to meet with a spy
-at almost any time.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I was mighty careful, sir, and told him nothing that
-might be used against us,” answered the Cowboy.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The General ordered the Turk to fly up and down the
-stream on a scouting trip while the army stopped for
-lunch. Late in the afternoon the Turk reported to the
-General that they would have to take a two days’ march
-out of their road to a place where the stream could be
-crossed. The army pushed on and shortly after dark
-stopped near the stream, where camp was made for the
-night.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The next morning the Doctor, the Old Soldier, Paddy
-Pinn and the General gathered on the banks of the raging
-stream to see what plan could be made for crossing the
-water.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i037.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>The banks were very steep and the water was quite
-too swift to ford, although the stream was only two feet
-wide (in our measurement). It was finally determined
-that there was nothing to do but build a bridge.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“We can throw a sort of suspension bridge across the
-stream,” said the Old Soldier, who was quite an engineer.
-“It will take us about a day and a half to do the work,
-but we will save time, for it would take fully two or three
-days to march to a place where we could cross without a
-bridge.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The war council thought the Old Soldier’s idea a good
-one and the General ordered the men to start work at
-once. Pulleys and ropes were brought out of the army
-wagons and some big logs for supports were cut from a
-bush near by. Several cattails, which grew near the
-stream, were sawed up into logs for the floor of the bridge.
-The bird airplane carried the workmen and ropes to the
-other side of the stream, where work was soon started on
-a bridge fifty-two Teenie Weenie feet long.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i038.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch08' class='c007'>Chapter Eight<br /> <br />A BADLY FRIGHTENED ARMY</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>It took a lot of hard work to build the big bridge. Every
-single Teenie Weenie worked with might and main.
-Even the mice who pulled the wagons and cannon,
-helped the work along by dragging the heavy logs up to
-the place where the bridge was being built.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The little army was a full day and a half building the
-bridge and when the task was finished the wagons were
-loaded, the mice hitched to them, and led by the General,
-the army marched safely across the bridge.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>A big squirrel who lived in a tree near by was hired to
-watch the bridge.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“We may want to get across this stream in a hurry,”
-the General told the squirrel. “If the wild men should push
-us back to this stream, and the bridge is destroyed, we
-certainly will be in a pretty pickle.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I’ll guard it with my life,” answered the squirrel, who
-had been promised ten sunflower seeds and four hickory
-nuts for his work.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The army once more took up the march and presently
-they drew nearer and nearer the forest. Great bushes
-overhung the path along which the soldiers marched.
-Tall, bright-colored toadstools grew by the wayside and
-everything was dark and mysterious.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>At noon the army was halted for lunch. The little soldiers
-sat on the soft moss under a big fern and each man
-ate the grain of boiled rice and bit of dried raisin which
-he had tucked into his tiny haversack that morning.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i040.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>When the men had eaten, the General ordered them
-to fall into line and stepping in front of them he said:
-“Men, I have been informed by our aviator and by our
-scouts that we are rapidly drawing near the land of the
-wild men, so from now on straggling will not be permitted.
-Soldiers wandering away from the army run the
-chance of being captured and we will soon have need of
-all our brave men.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The General’s talk impressed the little soldiers, and
-the Dunce and Gogo, who often wandered away from the
-line of march, were very much “on the job” all afternoon.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>As the army marched beneath a bush, late in the day,
-it suddenly came face to face with a small garter snake
-that lay near a big stone.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“O-O-O-O-O-oh, j-j-j-imminie C-c-c-c-christmas!”
-screamed the Dunce.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The mouse on which the General rode gave one frightened
-look at the snake and quickly ran up the bush,
-dumping the dignified General off on his Teenie Weenie
-head. The rest of the army fled in all directions, in spite
-of the Old Soldier, who tried with all his might to stop the
-frightened soldiers. The snake was almost as badly
-scared as the army and it wriggled into a hole near by
-with remarkable speed.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well, this is a fine army, I must say!” growled the
-General when the Old Soldier had finally got the soldiers
-back in line. “If you men run at the sight of a little snake,
-what will you do when you face real wild men?”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Pardon me, sir,” said Gogo, saluting the General.
-“We-all don’t mind fightin’ the wild men, but—we-all
-done object to bein’ et.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Forward, march!” shouted the General, and the little
-army moved on towards the wild men’s land.</p>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch09' class='c007'>Chapter Nine<br /> <br />THE CAPTIVES ATTEND A DANCE</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>While the Teenie Weenie soldiers were gallantly
-marching to the rescue of their little friends, the
-Lady of Fashion and the Poet were being kept prisoners
-in one of the funny little houses of the wild men.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Queen Mooie, ruler of the Saboes, was a very fat little
-lady, and like all fat people, big or little, she was very
-good-natured. When the Lady of Fashion and the Poet
-were brought before her, she was much interested in them
-and she made a long speech to the two Teenie Weenies in
-her strange language, but not one word could the little
-people understand.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The house in which the Lady of Fashion and the Poet
-were kept was built up on posts about six Teenie Weenie
-feet (three inches in our measurement) from the ground.
-The houses were built up high as protection from the
-dampness, for the Saboes lived on a little island in the
-heart of a big swamp, and it also protected the little people
-from bugs. The floor of the house was made of sticks
-and the roof and sides were covered with a peculiar
-swamp grass. A flat stone about the size of a half dollar
-was placed on the floor, on which the wild men built a tiny
-fire to keep themselves warm in winter, and a small hole in
-the roof provided a chimney for the smoke.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Twice a day the wild men brought the two Teenie
-Weenies delicious pieces of smoked frog ham, with many
-tiny rice cakes, and every other day the two prisoners
-were given a blackberry.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>One night shortly after the Lady of Fashion and the
-Poet had been brought to the wild men’s village, the two
-Teenie Weenies heard the beating of a drum. For what
-seemed hours the little prisoners listened to the tumtum,
-tumtum, tumtum, of the drum. There was no use asking
-the wild man who guarded them just outside their door,
-for he couldn’t understand them, so there was nothing to
-do but listen to the tumtum, tumtum, tumtum, and wonder
-what it was all about.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i043.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>Presently one of the wild men
-climbed up the ladder to their house
-and motioned the two Teenie Weenies
-to follow him. He led them beneath a
-bush near by, where a lot
-of wild men were dancing
-about a great fire. The
-men sang a queer sort of
-song as they danced, while one strange-looking fellow,
-who was a sort of witch doctor, rattled a huge seed pod
-fastened to the end of a forked stick. The wild men performed
-this strange dance once a month, as they believed
-it would keep bad luck away from their tribe.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Queen of the wild men sat near the fire on the
-back of her turtle, while the rest of the Saboes stood in a
-circle about the dancing men. The fire had been built in
-a deep hole on top of a large stone and when the stone
-was almost red-hot, the wild men scraped the fire all out
-with long sticks.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Then they lined the hole in the stone with sassafras
-leaves, into which they threw four large frog hams and
-then covered them over with several big leaves. Sand
-was then thrown onto the leaves, covering the hams
-tightly in the hot hole.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The wild men built a fire all around the outside edge
-of the stone, and while the hams cooked they again took
-up the wild dance. When the hams were baked they
-were taken out and a piece was served to each person
-and the Lady of Fashion and the Poet both enjoyed the
-delicious meat.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>After everyone had eaten of the ham, the Queen
-ordered the two Teenie Weenies to be taken back to their
-prison, but although it was very late, the Lady of Fashion
-and the Poet could hear the loud shouts of the wild little
-people for many hours.</p>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch10' class='c007'>Chapter Ten<br /> <br />HELP FROM A GROUND ROBIN</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>The army was now in the very heart of the great
-forest and it took a lot of hard work to get the heavy
-wagons and cannon through the jungle. At times a path
-had to be chopped through the tall grass and all this
-had to be done as silently as possible, for the army was
-now likely to run across the wild men at any time.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I don’t want these wild men to know that we are in
-the neighborhood,” the General warned the troops. “It
-is much better to surprise them, and, besides, there is no
-telling just what they may do to the Lady of Fashion
-and the Poet if they discover that we have come to
-rescue them.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The path the army now followed was so rough that
-little headway could be made and the General had to
-order a halt every now and then to rest the mice and
-men. During one of these stops the General fell into conversation
-with a pert-looking little ground robin who had
-hopped onto the limb of a bush near by.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Do you know just where these wild men live?”
-asked the General.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I’ll say I does,” answered the robin, who used very
-bad grammar. “I knows more about ’em than I wants
-to. The nasty little scalawags! These wild men get most
-all the seeds hereabouts and it’s all an honest bird can
-do to scratch out a bare living.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Could you guide us for a few days?” put in the
-General.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i046.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Gracious!” tittered the bird, “you’d never reach the
-wild men’s place in a few days with all those wagons
-and mice. They live on an island. You’ll have to have a
-boat or somethin’ to carry you over the water.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I have heard that they live on an island,” said the
-General, “but I mean could you show us the way to the
-water where we would be nearest to the island?”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Of course I could,” answered the bird; “that is, providin’
-it would be worth my time.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“We will pay you,” said the General. “We’ll give you
-six sunflower seeds for your work.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Make it six and a half seeds and I’ll do it,” cried
-the bird.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The General agreed and the bird hopped along ahead
-of the army, jumping onto a bush occasionally to point
-out the best path. After a couple of hours’ march, the
-army came out onto a sandy beach, where the General
-called a halt.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“This is the place and over there is the island,” cried
-the bird, nodding his head towards the water.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Teenie Weenies looked across the water and they
-could see the dim outlines of the island.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The ground robin was paid his six and a half sunflower
-seeds and in a short time the tired little soldiers put up the
-tiny tents and made a most cozy little camp. They named
-it camp Bitem, because of the many mosquitoes about the
-place.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>As the General did not wish a fire to be built for fear
-the wild men might see the light, the little army made its
-dinner on two sliced strawberries and a few grains of rice.
-No lights were lit that night in the camp and a strong
-guard watched carefully throughout the silent hours,
-which were disturbed only by the sentinels as they killed
-mosquitoes with the butts of their rifles or stabbed them
-with their bayonets.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Early the next morning the men set to work building
-a raft which was to be used in carrying the army across
-the water to the wild men’s island.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>A great many logs had to be cut, trimmed and brought
-to the water’s edge. The Cowboy hitched one of the
-strongest mice to the heavy logs and one by one they
-were hauled up to the workmen, who labored for nearly
-three days before the raft was done.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i048.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>While the men were at work on the raft, the Turk flew
-over the wild men’s island in search of a good place for
-the army to land and at the same time he kept an eye
-open for the Lady of Fashion and the Poet. He flew as
-near as he could to the wild men’s village without being
-seen, but he could see no signs of the two Teenie Weenies.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I think the wild men have the Lady of Fashion and
-the Poet locked up in one of their houses,” the Turk told
-the General when he slid off the bird’s back at the army
-camp. “I noticed one of the houses was closely guarded
-and I think we shall find them there.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“We’ll soon find out,” answered the General, “for the
-army will be on the wild men’s island in a mighty short
-time.” Taking the Turk by the arm, the General showed
-him where the raft was being built.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i049.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch11' class='c007'>Chapter Eleven<br /> <br />THE POET LEARNS SABO</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>While the Lady of Fashion and the Poet were being
-held prisoner by the Saboes, the Poet very carefully
-listened to the wild men’s strange language and in
-a short time he was able to speak a few of their words.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Jinks, but it is hot in this shanty!” he said to the
-Lady of Fashion one morning as he wiped his forehead
-with his Teenie Weenie handkerchief and looked out
-through the tiny hole that served as a window in the
-house in which they were held prisoners.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“If the Queen would just let us go out and take a little
-exercise once in a while it would help a lot,” suggested
-the Lady of Fashion fanning herself with a dry leaf.
-“Why don’t you ask the Queen? Maybe she will let us
-take a walk now and then.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I’ll do it,” answered the Poet, and looking out
-through the door he called to one of the wild men who
-stood near guarding the house.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Gip bah wah hoo,” said the Poet, which means in
-Sabo, “We need exercise.” “Tell the Queen we want to
-get out of this shanty and take a walk once in a while,”
-he continued in the wild men’s language.</p>
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i051.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic003'>
-<p><span class='color_blue'><span class='sc'>The Wild Men attack the Teenie Weenies, as their raft nears the island.</span>—<i>Chapter Thirteen.</i></span></p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>The wild man grunted a couple of times and hurried
-off through the long grass towards the Queen’s house,
-while the two Teenie Weenies sat down near the tiny door
-to await his return.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Presently the wild man came back and told the Poet
-that the Queen said that the Teenie Weenies could take
-a walk whenever they liked.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well, we’ll take a walk right this minute,” announced
-the Poet, and he quickly helped the Lady of Fashion
-down the tiny ladder.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Teenie Weenies strolled along through the
-streets of the village while the two guards walked a few
-feet behind them. A great many children followed the
-Teenie Weenies about but, although the Lady of Fashion
-tried to make friends with them, they were very timid
-and stood off at a safe distance.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>At one place two wild women were preparing dinner
-and the Teenie Weenies were much interested in what
-they saw. One woman was baking rice cakes on a flat
-stone under which a fire was burning, while a young girl
-was grinding wild rice into flour by pounding the rice
-with a small rock in a hollowed-out stone. Near the house
-was a hollowed-out log with leaves spread over the top
-to keep out the dust, and one of the guards told the Poet
-that the log was filled with salt water in which the frog
-hams were pickled before they were smoked.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i054.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>The two Teenie Weenies spent a very pleasant afternoon
-looking about the village and it was quite late before
-they returned to their prison.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Oh, dear me,” said the Lady of Fashion as she threw
-herself down on one of the soft grass mats, “I wonder
-what is going to happen to us. Do you think the General
-will come with the army and rescue us?”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Of course he will,” answered the Poet. “All we have
-to do is to be patient and he’ll be here pretty soon.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“But what if he doesn’t know that we have been captured
-by these wild men?” asked the Lady of Fashion
-anxiously.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“He will know all right,” said the Poet. “The Teenie
-Weenies could see the footprints of the wild men in the
-sand where we were captured. That is enough to tell
-them what has happened to us.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Oh, dear, if they would only come!” And the poor
-little lady began to sob.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Here! Here!” said the Poet anxiously, for he always
-felt mighty uncomfortable whenever the Lady of Fashion
-cried. “You must not cry. That won’t do a bit of good—just
-makes you feel bad and me worse.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I-I-I c-c-can’t help it,” sobbed the little lady. “I want
-clean clothes, my hair needs washing, I want some of the
-Cook’s good apple butter, I want my toothbrush and I-I-I
-want to go home.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Poet tried his best to comfort her and presently
-she cried herself to sleep.</p>
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch12' class='c007'>Chapter Twelve<br /> <br />GOGO’S BRAVE ACT</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>After much sawing, chopping and splitting of logs,
-the Teenie Weenies finally finished building the raft
-which was to carry the little army to the wild men’s
-island.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“We’ve got to give the raft a trial before we get all
-loaded up with supplies,” said the Old Soldier when the
-work had been done. “I’ll take it on the water this afternoon
-and give it a good try-out.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Quite right, quite right,” agreed the General as he
-sat down on a dry fern leaf. “We’ll have to send the army
-over in two trips. First the infantry can be taken over,
-then the raft can return for the artillery and some supplies.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Will the raft carry the cannon and the two mice that
-pull it?” asked the Doctor.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Certainly,” said the Old Soldier. “It even ought to
-hold a good-sized paving brick.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well, you can just bet I won’t get on that old raft until
-it has been thoroughly tried out,” announced Tess
-Bone as she arranged her dainty little cap and patted the
-Red Cross badge on her arm.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“That’s the way I feel about it too,” added Sally Guff,
-the other nurse with the army.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“You don’t need to worry about this raft,” laughed
-the Old Soldier. “It’s well made and every log is securely
-tied with strong, number forty thread.”</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i057.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>Right after lunch the General ordered several of the
-soldiers to help the Old Soldier take the raft out for a trial
-trip.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>With the help of the big sweep on the stern of the raft
-and the use of several long poles, the little men slowly
-pushed the craft out into the stream.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Jumping beans!” exclaimed the Old Soldier as the
-raft slid easily out into the water. “That is what I call a
-good—” but the Old Soldier never finished the sentence,
-for at that very moment a big frog poked his head out of
-the water and hopped up onto the raft.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Oooooo, a-a-a s-s-submarine!” gasped the Dunce.
-“Jump for your lives,” and he leaped head first into the
-deep water.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Most of the Teenie Weenies gave one look at the ugly
-frog, followed the Dunce into the water and swam as
-fast as they could for shore. The Old Soldier and Gogo
-were the only men to hold their ground, and if it had
-not been for these brave little fellows, the frog would
-have captured the transport without a battle. The Old
-Soldier drew his sword and attacked the frog, while Gogo
-struck the big fellow over the head with the boat pole.
-The frog, who had been attracted by the red coats of the
-soldiers, had hopped onto the raft in search of a meal,
-but he quickly slid back into the water at the first blow
-of the boat pole.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The soldiers who had jumped into the water were
-much ashamed of their behavior and they all quickly
-returned to the raft and finished the trial trip they had
-started.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“My brave lad,” said the General, grasping Gogo by
-the hand when the raft returned from its trip, “in behalf
-of the Teenie Weenie army I want to thank you for your
-great bravery and I hereby promote you to first sergeant
-in the Teenie Weenie army.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Oh, dat’s all right, General,” said Gogo, much confused
-at the honor thrust upon him. “There’s no fool
-frog what’s done gonna scare me when I’s mad, and I was
-certainly mad at that fool frog.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The raft proved to be thoroughly seaworthy, so the
-General gave orders for the men to be ready to board
-her just as soon as the wind and current were favorable
-for the trip to the wild men’s island.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i059.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch13' class='c007'>Chapter Thirteen<br /> <br />THE ATTACK</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>It was a long trip to the wild men’s island and the
-General wished to make the journey under cover of
-darkness. “I want to land on the island before daybreak
-so we can surprise the wild men,” the General told his
-officers, who were gathered for a council of war.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“The Sailor tells me,” continued the General, “that
-the wind and current are just right to sail the raft over
-to-night. I will take over the infantry on the first trip
-and then the raft can return for the artillery and the baggage
-and the rear guard, which the Old Soldier will command.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Cook had a great pot of rice cooked and he had
-stewed five lima beans. This great amount of food was
-portioned out, and three days’ rations were given to each
-soldier.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>A number of picks and shovels, with a lot of bags and
-a chest of bullets, was loaded onto the raft.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Promptly at eleven o’clock the General, followed by
-several men, marched onto the raft and some of the soldiers
-with long poles quickly pushed out into the dark
-stream.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i061.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic003'>
-<p><span class='color_blue'><span class='sc'>The Teenie Weenies pull the captured Wild Men out of the bottle.</span>—<i>Chapter Sixteen.</i></span></p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Sailor and the Cowboy handled the big sweep at
-the back of the raft, while the Policeman and the Scotchman
-pushed wherever they could with the long poles.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>No lights were allowed on the raft and the men were
-ordered to talk only in whispers, for the General wished
-to land on the island unknown to the wild men.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“J-j-j-jimminie C-c-christmas!” stuttered the trembling
-Dunce, “I-I-I’m not a-a bit s-s-scared. Are you,
-G-g-gogo?”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Not v-v-very m-m-much,” answered the colored lad,
-trying to keep his knees from knocking together. “I
-done hope we-all—”</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i063.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>But at that minute, the raft struck something with such
-a bang it nearly upset most of the little soldiers. In fact,
-the Scotchman would have tumbled into the water if the
-Cowboy hadn’t caught him.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The raft had struck the limb of an old tree that lay in
-the water and to the alarm of the General it stuck fast.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“This is terrible. Perfectly terrible,” groaned the General,
-glancing towards the eastern sky. “It will soon be
-daylight and the wild men will see us if we are delayed
-here.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The men worked with might and main to free the raft,
-but it was stuck tight to the snag and before they managed
-to get it free it was broad daylight.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“The wild men have very likely seen us by this time,”
-said the General, peering towards the island. “So instead
-of our surprising them, they probably will surprise
-us, but we have got to land. Examine your rifles and see
-that they are in condition to use, for we are likely to have
-a fight.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Look there!” cried the Sailor, pointing towards the
-shore, for the raft was now only a short distance from the
-island. “There’s something behind that stick.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Maybe it’s a wild man,” suggested the Dunce, turning
-a trifle pale. “Don’t you think we had better go back,
-General?”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“We intend to go on,” said the General, glancing
-scornfully at the frightened Dunce, “but if you want to
-you can jump into the water and swim back.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I-I-I think I’ll stay here,” said the Dunce as he
-thought of the many frogs and turtles that might snap
-him up if he tried to swim back.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>As the raft drew near the shore, several arrows whistled
-over the soldiers’ heads and instantly a number of
-wild men sprang up from behind a stick that lay on the
-shore and began shooting at the raft.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Make ready, men!” shouted the General, drawing his
-sword. “Shoot over the wild men’s heads when I give the
-word to fire. We don’t want to hurt any of them if we can
-avoid it.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“O-o-o-oh, I-I-I’m shot!” screamed the Dunce, as an
-arrow knocked his hat from his head, but the rest of the
-little soldiers never heard the foolish fellow, for they stood
-ready, awaiting the General’s order to fire.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i065.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch14' class='c007'>Chapter Fourteen<br /> <br />ON THE WILD MEN’S ISLAND</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>“Deliver this note at once to the Old Soldier,” said
-the General, as he handed the following letter to
-the army aviator:</p>
-
-<p class='c011'>Commander of the rear guard of the Teenie Weenie Army,
-Camp Bitem, on the Swamp Road:</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>My dear Captain:</p>
-<p class='c013'>We have had a battle with the enemy and our brave men
-have put them to rout.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>Our transport met with an accident and it was broad daylight
-before we landed on the island.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>The wild men attacked us as we neared the shore and sent
-a shower of arrows at us.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>I ordered my men to return the fire, and at the first crack
-of their rifles the wild men were greatly scared and ran off
-into the tall grass; I believe that it is the first time the wild
-men have ever heard a rifle shot.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>We have taken possession of a high bank where I have
-ordered the men to begin work on a trench.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>The raft is now on its way to your camp, and I want you
-to rush over the cannon and baggage as soon as possible, for
-I fully expect the wild men to attack us before long.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>I am sending this note by our brave aviator so you can
-have things ready to load on the raft when it arrives.</p>
-<p class='c014'>Respectfully yours,</p>
-<p class='c015'>THE GENERAL,</p>
-<div class='c016'>Commander in Chief of the Teenie Weenie Army.</div>
-
-<p class='c013'>P. S.—I forgot to say that none of my men was hurt in
-the battle except the Dunce, who was badly scared by being
-shot through the hat.</p>
-
-<p class='c017'>“Yes, sir,” saluted the Turk, and springing onto the
-back of the airplane he quickly flew out of sight over the
-water.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i067.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>When the Old Soldier received the General’s message,
-he set to work at once breaking camp and when the raft
-arrived the artillery was quickly loaded. The raft made
-two trips during the day and most of the necessary baggage
-was taken over to the island.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>A line of trenches was considered necessary by the
-General, who ordered Sergeant Gogo to direct the work
-and that brave little chap had the trenches done in a remarkably
-short time.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Nothing more was seen of the wild men, but the closest
-watch was kept, for there was no telling when they might
-appear again.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The little soldiers were much too excited to sleep and
-most of them sat about the tiny camp fire until a late hour
-talking of the day’s experience, but one by one they finally
-rolled up in their tiny blankets and slept, while the guards
-paced back and forth, ever watchful for prowling wild
-men.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id011'>
-<img src='images/i068.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch15' class='c007'>Chapter Fifteen<br /> <br />A COUNCIL OF WAR</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>For several days the army spent their time building
-trenches and making a comfortable camp, while the
-army scouts learned all they could about the wild men
-and the lie of the land.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Red Cross tent had been set up and the tiny cots
-looked very pretty, with their clean white sheets. Fortunately,
-there had been little use for them, as the army had
-been unusually healthy, the only exception being the
-Chinaman, who had been badly bitten by a pollywog, or
-tadpole, while he was taking a swim in the river.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>There had been very little excitement in camp for
-some time. Not a single wild man had been seen since
-the morning the army had landed on the raft and the soldiers
-had nothing much to do while off guard duty but to
-kill mosquitoes, which were thick about the camp.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Early one morning the Turk was called to the General’s
-tent, where he remained for some time.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Somethin’ doin’, I’ll bet,” thought the Dunce, who
-was on guard duty at the time in front of headquarters.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Something really was doing, for the Turk was ordered
-to fly out at once and make a careful map of Sabo Island.
-The Turk hurried to his tent, where he supplied himself
-with paper and pencils and a pair of tiny field glasses.
-The army airplane was dining on a fat worm when the
-Turk arrived, so he sat down and waited until the bird had
-eaten his breakfast.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“We’ve got to go out and make a map of the wild men’s
-island,” said the Turk.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“All right,” answered the bird, “I’m ready,” and hopping
-onto the ground he squatted down while the Turk
-climbed up on his fat back.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id012'>
-<img src='images/i070.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Turk headed the bird to a big tree which grew on
-the river bank near the island and in a few minutes the
-airplane settled easily on the topmost branch. The great
-blue river lay far beneath the Turk and with the help of
-his field glasses he was able to make a good map of the
-island and the surrounding country.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>When he returned to the Teenie Weenie camp the
-General immediately called a council of war and the little
-aviator was asked to explain the map in detail.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well,” began the Turk, “the circle marked Camp Bitem
-is the place where we camped and built the raft and the
-dotted line is the course we took to our present camp. The
-wild men have a sort of camp or fort, I couldn’t just exactly
-make out what it was, but anyhow they are gathered
-in some force on the only cleared ground between
-their village and our camp.”</p>
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i071.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic003'>
-<p>MAP OF WILD MEN’S ISLAND.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>“We couldn’t march through the grass and trees and
-cut the wild men’s camp off from the village, could we?”
-asked the Old Soldier.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“No, sir, I don’t think so,” answered the Turk, “for I
-do not believe anyone could possibly get through the
-grass and trees.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well, that’s too bad,” muttered the General. “I
-wanted to get those wild men out of that place with as little
-trouble as possible, but it looks as though we would
-have to take their fort by storm.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>All the Teenie Weenie officers gathered in the General’s
-tent listened solemnly to their commander’s words,
-for they knew it would be mighty serious if they were
-forced to charge the wild men’s fort.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i072.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch16' class='c007'>Chapter Sixteen<br /> <br />WILD MEN BOTTLED UP</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>“I done got ’em bottled up! I done got ’em bottled
-up!” shouted Gogo, the little colored Teenie Weenie,
-as he ran panting up to the General’s tent.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“What’s bottled up? What’s all the excitement
-about?” asked the General, popping his head through
-the opening of his tent.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Why I-I-I done ketched one of the wild men and
-turned him ovah to the guard and I done got three mo’
-corked up in a bottle.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Great Guns! This is exciting. Tell me about it,” cried
-the General.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well, you see it’s dis way,” said Gogo, sitting down
-on a pebble and mopping his head with his tiny handkerchief.
-“I done took a walk out beyond the picket lines yonder.
-I knew I had no business wanderin’ out dere, but I
-jus’ kept on and pretty soon I run across a big bottle
-a-layin’ on its side.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I was kind of ’spicious about dat bottle, fo’ I done see
-through de glass where some dry grass had done been
-fixed up fo’ a bed, mighty like some one been sleepin’
-dere.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id013'>
-<img src='images/i074.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-<p class='c004'>“‘Gogo,’ I says to myself, ‘some one been sleepin’ heah
-in dis bottle and it ain’t none of de Teenie Weenies, fo’
-none of dem has been out heah dis
-far.’ Den I made up my mind that
-it mus’ be some of dem scalawag
-wild men and I reckon dey mus’
-stayed in dis bottle when dey was on
-guard duty watchin’ our army.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“‘But why did dey-all stay in
-dis heah bottle?’ I says to myself.
-‘It’s not cold nights.’ But jus’ den a
-big mosquito cam’ a-buzzin’ and a-buzzin’ round and den
-I knew dat the wild men been a-stayin’ in dat bottle fo’ to
-keep de mosquitoes from bitin’ ’em.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I says to myself, ‘Some of dese wild men will be comin’
-’round heah pretty soon and maybe I can done cotch ’em
-and extinguish myself.’”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Distinguish yourself,” corrected the General.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Yes, sah,” continued the little colored fellow. “Well,
-I done crawl under a leaf and waited. I done wait fo’ a
-long time, but pretty soon I done see fo’ of de wild men
-come sneakin’ along and pretty soon dey done make right
-fo’ de bottle. Three of ’em done crawl in de bottle and
-one of ’em done squat down outside by de openin’ of de
-bottle kinda like he was guardin’.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“‘By de great corn pone,’ I says, ‘if a couple of de Teenie
-Weenies was heah we could done cotch dese scalawags.’</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Pretty soon I thought to myself, ‘Why don’t you ketch
-’em yourself?’ So I done sneaked out up behind de wild
-man what was guardin’ de mouth of de bottle and done
-cracked him on de head with de butt of my gun. I didn’t
-hit very hard—just hard enough to stun him a little—and
-den I grabbed a cork dat was layin’ near by and stuffed
-it into de bottle and braced it with a stick of wood so the
-scalawags couldn’t get out. I then picked up de wild man
-I had knocked down and brought him into camp and
-dat’s all.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“A very brave deed, sergeant,” said the General. “And
-I will immediately send out a squad of men to bring your
-prisoners into camp.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Old Soldier was ordered to take a squad of men
-and go after the prisoners, while the Doctor was sent to
-dress the bump on the head of the wild man that Gogo
-had knocked down. After a great deal of work the soldiers
-managed to pull the three wild men out of the bottle
-and when they were brought into camp they were securely
-tied to a strong blade of grass.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i075.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch17' class='c007'>Chapter Seventeen<br /> <br />THE DUNCE IN DISGRACE</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>“Why are you making such a fine camp here, General?”
-asked the Doctor, as he noticed that the
-Teenie Weenies continued to improve the camp. “Won’t
-we have to move on pretty soon if the wild men do not
-attack?”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“We’ll stay right here for some time,” answered the
-General, taking off his tiny sword and laying it on the
-table which stood in front of his tent. “We are within
-striking distance of the wild men’s village, so the aviator
-tells me, and we’ll use this camp for our base of operations.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“General,” said the Cook, saluting the commander of
-the Teenie Weenie army, “I beg your pardon, but there
-is something I must tell you.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“What is it, sir?” said the General, returning the
-Cook’s salute.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Why sir, there’s a thimble missing from among my
-cooking things. I put two beans to soak in it last night
-and when I went to look at them a little while ago the
-beans were lying on the ground and the thimble was
-gone.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“That’s most strange,” said the General; “I’ll have the
-Cowboy look into the matter and see if he can find out
-what has happened to the thimble.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Thank you, sir,” said the Cook, “I’m a little short of
-cooking pans and kettles and I’d like to have it back.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Cowboy was ordered to look for the lost thimble,
-but before he had fairly started the search, the thimble
-turned up in a most peculiar way. Down the main street
-of the camp towards the General’s tent marched the
-Dunce with the lost thimble over his head and followed
-by a laughing crowd of soldier.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“What’s the idea of this?” asked the General as the
-Dunce stopped before him.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Safety first,” answered the Dunce.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“What do you mean by safety first?” asked the General,
-trying hard to keep from laughing at the ridiculous
-sight.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“W-w-well, you s-s-see,” began the Dunce, “I thought
-this thimble would make a fine suit of armor, and protect
-me from the wild men’s arrows. I took it out back of camp,
-got some tools and cut a couple of holes for my arms to go
-through and another hole to see through—”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Yes, and spoiled a perfectly good thimble,” put in
-the General.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Jinks!” exclaimed the Dunce, “I never thought of
-that.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Of course you didn’t,” answered the General sternly.
-“You have a habit of doing your thinking afterwards,
-and that is a mighty bad habit.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Quite right! Quite right!” cried a field mouse, who had
-been hanging around the camp for a few days. “Quite
-right, I says. There’s always a time to think. One ought
-to do a heap of thinking before one acts, I says.”</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i078.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Yes, you’re right,” put in the General, glaring at the
-mouse, who was very talkative. “One ought to think a
-great deal and then he ought to say only about one half of
-what he thinks.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Words of wisdom! Words of wisdom!” cried the
-mouse, never dreaming the General’s rebuke was aimed at
-him, and he strolled down the camp street quite pleased
-with himself.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Now, Dunce,” said the General, “I’m going to try to
-see if I can help you do a little thinking.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Y-y-yes, s-s-s-sir,” answered the Dunce.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I’m going to make you wear that thimble for the rest
-of the day and that ought to help you to remember that
-you have spoiled a perfectly good cooking pot, just because
-you didn’t happen to think.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>All day long the poor Dunce was forced to walk up
-and down in front of the General’s tent, wearing the
-heavy thimble. It was a warm day and the thimble grew
-quite hot in the sunshine, so his punishment was pretty
-hard, but there is no doubt it did him a great deal of good.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i079.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch18' class='c007'>Chapter Eighteen<br /> <br />CONSULTING AN ENGINEER</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>The General studied the map of the wild men’s island
-which the Turk had drawn, in the hope that he could
-figure out a way to attack the Saboes without storming
-their fort. In storming the fort, the General felt sure that
-many of his soldiers might be injured and he wished to
-rout the enemy with as little damage as possible.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I have it! I have it!” exclaimed the General one
-morning as he sat studying the tiny map. “We can hire
-a mole to tunnel under the wild men’s fort and then we
-can blow it up with a firecracker.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Bully!” shouted the Old Soldier. “And before they
-get over the surprise of the explosion we can charge
-through the destroyed fort into the village.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“That’s the idea,” smiled the General. “We’ll go over
-to-morrow and engage the old mole who lives down by
-the river.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Moles are great engineers,” said the Doctor, “and
-what they don’t know about underground digging isn’t
-worth knowing.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The next day the General and the Doctor, with an
-escort of four soldiers, set out on the journey to the mole’s
-home.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“S-s-say, what is a m-m-mole anyhow?” asked the
-Dunce as the little party marched along.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“A mole? Why, a mole—let’s see, a mole—why a
-mole is a mole,” answered Gogo.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I’ll tell you what a mole is like,” laughed the Doctor,
-who had overheard the Dunce’s question. “A mole is an
-animal almost the size of a rat and he lives under the
-ground. He has very small eyes and ears, and he very seldom
-comes out in the day time, for it is pretty hard for him
-to see in the bright sunlight. He has very short and powerful
-legs with which he can dig very fast. He lives on
-worms and grubs and roots, and he is usually very gruff
-and bad-tempered.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Presently the little party came to the place where the
-mole lived and the General ordered the soldiers to halt.
-They had stopped by the side of a steep bank and near
-the top was a hole under the roots of a tree, which was
-the front door of the mole’s home.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Dress up in line, men!” commanded the General,
-“and when Mr. Mole comes to the door of his house I want
-you all to present arms, for we will have to use the greatest
-diplomacy in order to engage this fellow.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The General stepped up near the bank and called
-loudly several times into the hole and presently a long
-furry nose appeared in the opening.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well, what do you mean by awakening honest people
-out of a sound sleep?” growled the mole. “What is it?
-What do you want?”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I beg your pardon,” said the General as he lifted his
-hat and made a low bow; “I’m awfully sorry I disturbed
-your rest, but having heard of your reputation as an engineer
-I have come to beg your services for the Teenie
-Weenie army. We want to engage you to dig a trench
-for us.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I’ll work for four fat white grubs a day and not a
-grub less,” snapped the mole.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i082.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>“That’s quite satisfactory,” answered the General.
-“We are willing to pay whatever you ask, but I want you
-to know just what the work will be. We want you to dig
-a tunnel in the ground so we can explode a mine in it.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I don’t care a snap of my tail what kind of work it
-is; all I want is my pay,” growled the mole.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“When may we expect you?” asked the General.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“To-morrow at four o’clock, not a minute sooner or
-later,” answered the mole.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Shall we have breakfast for you?” asked the General.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Why, certainly! Why, certainly!” exclaimed the mole.
-“How in the name of angleworms do you expect me to
-work without food? What do you suppose I’m workin’
-for—pleasure?”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“We’ll have a couple of nice young grubs for you,” said
-the General politely, although he was quite disturbed by
-the mole’s ungentlemanly manner.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Two grubs and a couple of angleworms would make
-me work better,” suggested the mole.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“You shall have them,” answered the General stiffly.
-“Good day to you, sir.” Lifting his hat politely, he ordered
-the soldiers to march back to camp.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id005'>
-<img src='images/i083.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch19' class='c007'>Chapter Nineteen<br /> <br />THE OLD SOLDIER’S WAR MACHINE</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>At exactly four o’clock the next morning the mole
-came into camp, and as the General had promised,
-his breakfast was ready. After the mole had eaten his
-grubs, he reported for work. The General showed the
-mole just where he wanted the tunnel to run and immediately
-the old fellow set to work. He burrowed his nose
-down into the soft ground and then pushed the loosened
-earth back with his powerful fore claws. He worked wonderfully
-fast and in less than a minute he had entirely
-disappeared into the ground.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>All day long the mole worked, coming out only for a
-few minutes at noon to eat his lunch, and at half past five
-in the afternoon he again appeared to announce that the
-tunnel had been finished.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The General sent the Sailor into the tunnel to measure
-it, for he wanted to be quite sure that it reached a point
-just under the wild men’s fort.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“It’s just exactly eight hundred and fifty-eight feet
-long,” announced the Sailor when he crawled out of the
-tunnel a few minutes later. “I could hear the wild men
-walking on the ground above, so it must stop right in the
-middle of the fort.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“’Course it does,” snapped the mole. “Don’t you suppose
-I know how to dig?”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>When the mole had been paid for his work, he slipped
-off into the night without ever even thanking the Teenie
-Weenies for his pay.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Queer old surly fellow,” said the General as he
-watched the awkward mole waddle off.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Yes, but you have to admit that he is a wonderful engineer,”
-observed the Old Soldier.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well, gentlemen,” said the General turning to his officers,
-“we have got to move our lines forward. You see,
-we are about eight hundred and fifty feet from the wild
-men’s fort and it is quite necessary that trenches be built
-forward so we will not have too great a distance to charge
-when we explode the mine under the enemy’s fort.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The officers all agreed with the General and that very
-night several men were sent out, when it was quite dark,
-to start the work.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The little soldiers had gone but a short distance when
-they were seen by the wild men, who sent a shower of
-arrows at them, and Gogo was slightly scratched on the
-arm, while one of the wild men’s arrows splintered the
-Old Soldier’s wooden leg, so the General ordered the work
-stopped for the time being.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Old Soldier was quite an engineer and when he
-had whittled out a new wooden leg, he set to work trying
-to scheme out some way by which the men could dig
-the trenches without being hit by the wild men’s arrows.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I have it,” he cried after he had puzzled over the matter
-for a time. “We can make a big screen out of sticks,
-one that is quite arrow-proof.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“How are you going to move it?” asked the Turk.
-“It will be too heavy for the men to carry.”</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i086.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>“That will be easy,” smiled the Old Soldier. “There’s
-a spool of thread among our supplies and all we have to
-do is to remove the thread and—”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Use the spool as a sort of wheel to roll the screen
-on,” put in the Cook.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Right,” laughed the Old Soldier. “We can push it
-ahead of us on the spool and be quite safe from the wild
-men’s arrows.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The General ordered the screen made and at once, under
-the watchful eye of the Old Soldier, the men set to
-work building it. In a remarkably short time the screen
-was finished and early the next morning the Old Soldier,
-with six chosen men, started to push it toward the wild
-men’s fort.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i087.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>As soon as the wild men saw the screen coming toward
-them, they let fly a shower of arrows, but they either
-stuck fast in the screen or flew harmlessly over the soldier’s
-heads.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Great Guns!” cried the Old Soldier when the little
-party had pushed the screen quite a ways toward the wild
-men’s fort. “We forgot to bring along the picks and
-shovels.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I’ll get ’em, Captain,” said the Dunce, saluting
-the Old Soldier and hardly waiting for the officer’s permission,
-the Dunce ran for the trench which they had
-just left, as fast as his legs would carry him.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Dunce grabbed up three picks and with the help
-of the Chinaman who volunteered to go along, the two
-brave Teenie Weenies ran for the screen amid the flying
-arrows which whizzed all about them.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>All day long the men worked hard, pulling the screen
-along as they dug back toward the Teenie Weenie trench,
-and at night, six other soldiers took up the work where the
-rest left off. Several days of hard labor finished the work
-and not one Teenie Weenie had been shot, thanks to the
-Old Soldier’s screen.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i088.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch20' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty<br /> <br />THE DUNCE LOOKS FOR EXCITEMENT</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>From the new trenches the Teenie Weenies could see
-the wild men’s fort plainly. The little soldiers had
-to be very careful, however, for every time they showed
-themselves the wild men would let fly a shower of arrows.
-The soldiers thought it great fun to put their hats on
-sticks and push them out in sight of the wild men. At first
-this brought a tremendous number of arrows, but finally
-the wild men caught onto the trick and only an occasional
-arrow would fly at the exposed hat.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The men took turns guarding the front trenches. It was
-very tiresome work sitting in the narrow ditch waiting
-for something to happen and most of the soldiers would
-have welcomed the order to storm the wild men’s fort.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I can’t see why the General doesn’t get busy and
-take the fort,” growled the Scotchman one afternoon. Several
-of the men, who were off duty, were lying in a mossy
-place under some big ferns, discussing the matter.
-“We’ve got everything ready for the attack, the men are
-more than anxious to go into action and we could lick
-the stuffin’ out of the Saboes.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Keep cool, Scotty; we’ll get a chance soon enough,”
-said the Turk, who was very quiet and always took things
-calmly. “The General knows what he’s about and when
-he gets his plans ready, we’ll get all the excitement we
-want.”</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id008'>
-<img src='images/i090.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-<p class='c004'>“Excitement!” exclaimed the Dunce.
-“That’s me. I’ve got to have some excitement;
-I’m sick and tired of sittin’
-around here without anything doin’.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Let’s get our guns and go out and
-see if we can’t shoot some dragon flies or
-mosquitoes,” suggested the Sailor.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Nah, that ain’t dangerous enough,”
-answered the Dunce. “I want to do
-something that will give me a thrill,” and
-getting up he slowly walked towards the
-tall grass near the Teenie Weenie camp.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The General had given orders that
-none of the soldiers should leave camp,
-for the grass was so tangled and thick
-that it would be an easy thing to get lost
-and, besides, the savage wild men might
-be hiding behind the thick stalks of
-grass.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Jinks!” thought the Dunce as he
-peered into the dense grass, “the General
-wouldn’t scold me if I happened to
-stroll out there and capture a wild man.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>After some minutes of thought, the
-Dunce hurried to his tent, got his gun
-and sneaked unseen out of camp into the
-dark grass. He stumbled along for some
-time without making much headway, for the stalks of
-grass grew close together and the dead leaves tangled
-about his feet at almost every step. Presently he came to an
-open spot near the edge of the island, where he found
-walking much easier, but he had gone only a short distance
-when he suddenly saw four wild men ahead of him.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Throw up your hands—you’re surrounded!” shouted
-the Dunce, pointing his gun towards them.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The wild men, not understanding the Teenie Weenie
-language, started running towards the Dunce with loud
-yells.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The poor Dunce was so badly frightened he forgot to
-fire his gun and turning about he ran as fast as his short
-legs could carry him towards the Teenie Weenie camp.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The army aviator, who happened to be scouting above
-the shore of the island, saw the Dunce being chased by
-the wild men.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Quick!” he shouted to the bird on which he flew.
-“Fly just as close as you can to the Dunce and I’ll grab
-him as we sail by.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The bird flew straight for the ground and holding
-tight to its neck, the aviator grabbed the Dunce by the
-collar and snatched him from the very hands of the
-wild men.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Turk pulled the frightened Dunce up on the
-bird’s back and a few minutes later they landed safely
-in the Teenie Weenie camp.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well, sir,” said the General when he had heard the
-Turk’s story of the rescue, “what were you doing outside
-the camp without permission to go out?”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I-I-I-I j-j-just wanted s-s-some excitement and I-I-I-I
-thought I’d go out and s-s-see if I-I-I couldn’t capture a
-wild man,” stammered the frightened Dunce.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well, did you capture any of them?” asked the General
-with a wink at the Old Soldier.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“W-w-w-well, I-I surrounded f-f-four of ’em, but they
-wouldn’t stay surrounded and they started to chase me,
-so I-I-I had to r-r-run.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well, did you get any excitement?” smiled the
-General.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Oh, yes, sir, I-I-I got more than I-I-I was looking for.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well, sir,” said the General, “I hope you got enough
-excitement to last you for a long time. You are guilty of
-an act of leaving camp without permission and I find it
-necessary to place you under arrest.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The poor Dunce was marched off between four soldiers
-to the tiny guard house, where he was left to think
-over his disobedience.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i092.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div  class='figcenter id014'>
-<img src='images/i093.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic003'>
-<p><span class='color_blue'><span class='sc'>The army aviator snatches the Dunce from the hands of the Wild Men.</span>—<i>Chapter Twenty.</i></span></p>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch21' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty-One<br /> <br />THE SCOUTS HAVE A NARROW ESCAPE</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>“General, the men are getting restless. They want
-to get into action and it seems to me that we ought
-to hurry our plans for the attack,” said the Old Soldier.
-The two little officers were sitting at the tiny table in front
-of the General’s tent.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Yes, I believe you’re right,” answered the General
-thoughtfully. “The plans for the attack are almost ready,
-but I would like to get some more information about the
-wild men. I’d like to know just how many are guarding
-the fort, what sort of arms they have and a lot of other
-details. The Turk has been able to get much valuable
-information, but the grass is so tall around the fort that
-he has not been able to get very near in the airplane, so
-I’m afraid I’ll have to send the scouts out for the facts I
-want.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“That’s mighty dangerous,” said the Old Soldier,
-stroking his beard. “The jungle is full of the Saboes—they
-are swarming all through the grass, thicker than
-ants on a chocolate drop.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Yes, I know it’s dangerous, but I believe the Cowboy
-and the Indian can get through unseen and bring back
-the information I want,” the General said. “Either one
-of the little fellows is at home in the woods and grass.
-They are both pastmasters in covering up their tracks.
-Why, I believe the Indian could walk through a lady’s
-powder box without ever leaving a single track,” and the
-General said it so earnestly there was no doubt but that
-he spoke the truth.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Turning to the guard that stood near his tent, the
-General ordered him to bring the Indian and the Cowboy.
-“Tell them it is important and that I wish them to
-report at once.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>In a few minutes the two scouts appeared and, clicking
-their tiny heels together, they saluted in the most
-approved military fashion.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“You sent for us, sir?” said the Cowboy.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Yes,” answered the General, looking seriously at the
-sturdy little men. “I have a piece of work for you to do.
-First I want to tell you that it is mighty risky—in fact, it
-is extremely dangerous. I will not send you unless you
-are willing to go—you shall choose.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“We are ready to go,” answered the little scouts
-quietly, and their loyalty touched the General greatly.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I want you to go to the wild men’s fort and get all
-the information you can,” said the General. “Find out
-how many men they have, what sort of weapons they use,
-note the condition of their fort and get some idea of the
-ground beyond the fort. Get all the facts you can and
-report to me as soon as possible.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Yes, sir,” answered the scouts and, saluting, they hurried
-to their tent, where they buckled on their tiny pistols.
-Next they each secured a supply of dried minnow
-and half a boiled bean, which they stuffed into their
-pockets.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>They slipped quietly out of camp and after a long and
-tiresome trip they finally drew near to the wild men’s
-fort. They could hear the voices of the wild men now and
-then and the two Teenie Weenies were forced to steal
-along with the greatest care. Presently they crawled up
-to a place quite near the fort where they could see the
-wild men every now and then through the long grass.
-The scouts watched the wild men for several hours and it
-was quite late before the little fellows could find a chance
-to crawl away safely and unseen.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Several times on their way back to the Teenie Weenie
-camp the scouts were forced to hide under leaves and dry
-grass to keep from being discovered, and once they had
-to lie for almost an hour in a hollow stick, as several wild
-men stopped near them to rest.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“It be heap much dark soon,” grunted the Indian as
-he peered through the grass at the sky.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“We can never get back to camp before night and we
-couldn’t possibly get through this jungle in the dark, so
-we’ve got to find some place to spend the night,” whispered
-the Cowboy.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The two Teenie Weenies found a deserted bird’s nest
-in a bush near by, and, climbing up the bush, they soon
-made themselves comfortable for the night.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i098.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>Early in the morning the little scouts were awakened
-by voices, and looking over the edge of the nest, they saw
-several wild men coming towards the bush. The wild men
-stopped beneath the bush, where they soon made a fire
-and cooked pieces of frog ham for their breakfast.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The two Teenie Weenies had eaten what little food
-they had brought with them the day before and as they
-smelled the delicious meat cooking it made them as hungry
-as bears. There were too many of the Saboes for the
-two scouts to fight, so they could do nothing but lie quiet
-until the wild men had gone. In a short time the wild men
-finished their breakfast and after talking in their strange
-language for a few minutes they hurried away.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>When the wild men had disappeared into the jungle of
-tall grass near by, the two scouts carefully climbed out of
-the nest and set off in the direction of the Teenie Weenie
-camp. Several times they had to hide behind sticks and
-leaves when the wild men passed near them, and once,
-three of the savage little fellows came so close to the spot
-where the scouts lay hidden that they thought they would
-surely be discovered. It was almost evening before the
-Cowboy and the Indian reached camp and the little fellows
-reported at once to the General. They gave the
-Commander of the Teenie Weenie army such valuable
-news that he at once called in his staff for a council of war.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The little officers talked for a long time and when they
-finally came out of the General’s tent, it was very plain to
-see that something was about to happen. Officers dashed
-about the camp giving orders, the Doctor and the two
-nurses busied themselves around the tiny hospital, while
-Paddy Pinn spent much time with his Teenie Weenie
-cannon.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Three of the soldiers carried two big firecrackers into
-the tunnel the mole had made. In fact, everyone was busy
-and the whole camp teemed with excitement, wondering
-as to what was to happen next.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i100.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch22' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty-Two<br /> <br />THE BATTLE</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>Orders had been given to attack the wild men in
-the morning and most of the Teenie Weenie soldiers
-slept very little during the night. At daylight a thimbleful
-of hot cocoa and a supply of bread was brought into
-the front trenches and while the little soldiers ate, the
-artillery kept up a heavy fire on the wild men’s fort.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>At last the order was given to charge and the excited
-Teenie Weenies climbed out of their trenches and dashed
-for the fort.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Although the soldiers’ tiny knees knocked together
-and their teeth chattered with fright,
-they went into battle with great
-eagerness, cheered by the voices of
-several meadow mice and bugs, who
-stood out of range of the wild men’s
-arrows.</p>
-
-<div  class='figleft id008'>
-<img src='images/i101.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>It was a great victory. Probably
-the history of the battle can be better
-told by one who took part in it, so we
-shall hear the story from a letter written
-by Mr. Lover to his wife immediately
-after the battle. The tiny letter
-was written on a piece of very thin birch bark, about half
-the size of a postage stamp, but if you could see it under
-a powerful microscope you would read it, word for
-word, just as it appears on this page.</p>
-
-<p class='c011'>My dear Bab:</p>
-<p class='c013'>As the Indian is carrying the official news of the battle
-back to Shoehurst, you will know before you open this letter
-that we have won. It was wonderful and I will tell you all
-about it from the very first. The wild men’s fort, which was
-made of strong sticks, lay in a narrow path guarding the only
-open road to the village, where the Lady of Fashion and Poet
-are held prisoners. In order to get to the village we had to
-capture the fort. We heard the night before that we were to
-storm the fort in the morning and believe me, we didn’t sleep
-much; that is, I didn’t. I was as nervous as a cat in a dog
-house.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>Early in the morning the aviator flew over the fort and
-dropped pepper bombs. These bombs are made out of red
-pepper tied up in thin pieces of tissue paper and when they
-hit the ground they break and scatter the pepper all around.
-While the wild men were sneezing from the effects of the
-pepper, the artillery opened up and sent a lot of shot into
-the fort.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>Next, a big mine we had made under the fort was exploded.
-There were two big firecrackers in it and, say, you
-ought to have seen the sticks fly up in the air when that mine
-went off! Right after the mine explosion we were ordered
-to charge and we jumped out of the trenches and started on
-the run for the fort.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id015'>
-<img src='images/i103.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic003'>
-<p><span class='color_blue'><span class='sc'>The Teenie Weenie Army Drives the Wild Men from their WRECKED FORT.</span>—<i>Chapter Twenty-two.</i></span></p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c013'>We were almost halfway there when the Sailor, who was
-carrying the flag, dropped with an arrow in his chest. The
-Dunce caught up the fallen flag and putting his hat on top of
-the staff, he yelled for us to follow. Everybody cheered, for
-we didn’t think the Dunce had enough nerve to do such a
-brave thing.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>The fort was badly wrecked by the explosion, so it wasn’t
-hard to climb over it to get at the wild men. Most of the
-Saboes were so scared they never tried to fight, but a few of
-them stood their ground. They were quickly subdued, however.
-We captured fourteen men; five of them are wounded,
-but the Doctor has them in the hospital and he’ll fix them
-up all right.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>Four of our men were wounded, but the Sailor is the
-only one who was badly hurt. The Doctor says that he will
-pull through all right.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>We wanted to attack the wild men’s village, but the General
-wouldn’t let us. He says we have got to take care of
-the wounded and make our lines safe before we can go farther.
-Some of the men seem to think that there will be very
-little fight left in the wild men, for they were pretty well
-scared by our attack. The Scotchman and I are doing
-guard duty; we have to guard the prisoners. We are using
-an old bottle for a prison and it certainly makes a good one;
-if we keep on getting prisoners we’ll soon have a bottleful.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>I do hope the General follows up the victory and goes
-right after these wild men, so we can end this war, for I
-want to get home to you and the children.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>Well, I’ll have to stop now as the Indian is about ready
-to start for Shoehurst. Tell the twins I have a nice string
-of blackberry seed beads for each of them and give them each
-a kiss for me.</p>
-<p class='c018'>Affectionately,</p>
-<p class='c014'>Your Husband.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>P. S.: The Cook and the Chinaman have just brought
-up a pot of cocoa and four hot beans! Hurrah! we’re going
-to have a feast.</p>
-<div class='c016'>Hubby.</div>
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch23' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty-Three<br /> <br />THE RED CROSS</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>There was much confusion after the battle, for so
-many things had to be done, and done quickly.
-The lines had to be advanced and made safe against attack
-by the wild men. The prisoners had to be carefully
-guarded until they could be put into the grape juice bottle
-which was being used as a prison.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Then, there were the wounded. Both Teenie Weenies
-and wild men had to be given the best of care. Just as soon
-as the battle was over, the injured were gathered up and
-carried tenderly to the Red Cross field hospital, where
-the Doctor and his two little nurses dressed their wounds.
-The Clown and the Policeman carried the wounded into
-the hospital on tiny stretchers and just as soon as the
-injured little fellows had medical care, they were put into
-clean beds. At first the injured wild men were much
-frightened, but when they were handled so tenderly by
-the Doctor and his lovely nurses, they became quite
-contented.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Doctor’s official report to the General gives the
-best idea of the work of the Red Cross after the battle,
-and it is printed here, word for word, from that tiny
-document.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i107.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c019'>
-    <div><span class='large'>TEENIE WEENIE RED CROSS FIELD HOSPITAL</span></div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c013'>Commander in Chief,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Report No. 14.</p>
-<p class='c020'>Teenie Weenie Army.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>Sir: I herein give to you a full detailed report of the
-Red Cross work after the battle of Sabo:</p>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c021'>
-    <div><b>Teenie Weenies Injured</b></div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c013'>Sailor—Shot in the right breast with arrow, which
-was removed after a hard operation, as the point had
-broken off between the third and fourth ribs. Eleven
-stitches taken in wound. Patient in bad shape but
-will recover.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>Dunce—Shot in hand; slight wound; will be all
-right in few days.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>Gogo—Two small wounds in right leg and left arm.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>Cowboy—Scratch on cheek from spear thrust.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i108.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c021'>
-    <div><b>Wild Men Injured</b></div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c013'>No. 1—Serious wound in neck from rifle bullet; removed
-bullet after much work; patient in bad shape.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>No. 2—Bad bayonet wound in side; will recover.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>No. 3—Piece of shell removed from back; nineteen
-stitches taken in wound; will get well.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>No. 4—Painful scalp wound from being hit on head with
-butt of gun; five stitches taken in wound.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>No. 5—Shot in shoulder; not dangerous.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>I wish to bring to your notice the good work of my staff.
-I commend them for their earnest and skillful help in taking
-care of the wounded. The work of bringing in the wounded
-was promptly done by the Policeman and the Clown in a manner
-that calls for the highest praise.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>Tess Bone and Sally Guff, my two excellent nurses, were
-of the greatest service. Their tenderness in handling the injured
-was of the highest order.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>I wish also to bring to your notice the kindness of Peter
-Meadowlark and Bouncing Ben, the jumping mouse. Peter
-Meadowlark did much towards keeping the patients in a good
-frame of mind by his daily songs. Every day he came to the
-hospital and sang for the wounded.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>Bouncing Ben kept the sick laughing for hours by his
-funny handsprings and somersaults. I owe much to these
-two kind-hearted fellows for the good condition of my patients.</p>
-<p class='c022'>Sincerely yours,</p>
-<p class='c018'>Surgeon General,</p>
-<p class='c014'>Teenie Weenie Army.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id016'>
-<img src='images/i109.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch24' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty-Four<br /> <br />LET THERE BE PEACE</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>After the battle the front lines were moved quite a
-distance towards the center of the island, where
-the wild men’s village stood. A strong breastwork of
-sticks and grass was built and a most careful watch was
-kept at all times. Nothing was seen of the wild men
-except shadowy forms that every now and then dodged
-about among the stalks of big grass. They were surely
-in the tall grass, for the savage little fellows could slip
-about in the jungle almost unseen.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>It was quite certain that the General intended to move
-again in a short time, for everything was made ready
-for another battle.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>One morning the Scotchman, who was in the front
-lines, happened to see a wild man crawling along on his
-stomach towards a stick that lay in front of the Teenie
-Weenie breastwork. The tiny soldier raised his gun and
-waited, thinking the wild men were about to charge, but
-instead a blade of grass appeared above the stick and to
-it was tied a white rag.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Jinks!” exclaimed the Scotchman, lowering his gun,
-“the wild men are showing a flag of truce.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Hold your fire, men!” shouted the Cowboy, who
-was in charge of the Teenie Weenie fort at the time.
-“They are sending out a flag of truce.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Presently the wild man crawled out from behind the
-stick and timidly made his way toward the Teenie
-Weenies.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“What do you want?” asked the Cowboy, peering
-over the top of the fort.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Wap gee goo mah be gum,” answered the wild man
-as he approached the Teenie Weenies. Of course none
-of them could understand a word of this.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id017'>
-<img src='images/i111.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Talk English, you goof,” cried the Cowboy. “I
-can’t understand that kind of talk.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The wild man carried a piece of folded birch bark in
-his hand and when he reached the fort he handed it over
-to the Cowboy. It was addressed to the General, and the
-Cowboy at once sent the note to him.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>When the note was delivered to the General, he found
-that it was from the Queen of the wild men, written by
-the Poet, and this is what he read:</p>
-<p class='c011'>&nbsp;&nbsp;Commander in Chief,
-Teenie Weenie Army.
-My dear General:</p>
-<p class='c013'>Her Royal Highness, Mooie, Queen of the wild men, sends
-greetings. Her Highness wishes to talk over terms of peace
-with you and suggests that you and your staff meet her at the
-stream which crosses the path halfway between the Sabo village
-and your camp. Her Highness awaits your pleasure and
-asks Your Excellency to set a date for the meeting.</p>
-<p class='c018'>Respectfully yours</p>
-<p class='c014'>RUFUS RHYME.</p>
-
-<p class='c013'>P. S.—Although the Lady of Fashion and I have been
-closely guarded since we have been prisoners, we have been
-very well treated and I ask that you take this into consideration
-when you arrange peace terms.</p>
-<p class='c018'>R. R.</p>
-
-<p class='c017'>The General answered the note at once, making
-arrangements to meet the Queen on the following day.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The next day at the appointed time the General, the
-Old Soldier and a guard of eight soldiers marched off to
-the meeting place, where they found the Queen awaiting
-them.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Queen sat on her favorite turtle and she had with
-her several of her warriors and the Poet.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i113.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>As the Teenie Weenies drew near, the Queen and her
-followers raised their left hands above their heads, which
-is the Sabo custom when friends meet. The Queen was
-the first to speak, and the Poet, who had learned the Sabo
-language while he was held prisoner, translated her
-words to the Teenie Weenies as follows:</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“O, great chief of the thunder wagon (the name, “Men
-of the Thunder Wagon,” was given to the Teenie Weenies
-on account of the cannon which the wild men said
-sounded like thunder), we have come here to ask for
-peace. We do not wish to fight; we ask only for the liberty
-of our brothers whom you hold prisoners. Give us
-back our brothers and we will return the Lady of Fashion
-and the Poet to you. We will also give you two hundred
-smoked frog hams for our brothers’ return.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“O queen of beauty and ruler of all the Saboes,” said
-the General when the Poet had finished, “we do not wish
-to fight, and we ask only for the return of our friends. For
-their safe return we will free your brothers. The hams
-you have offered we could not think of taking, for we took
-up arms against you, not for gain, but only for the freedom
-of the Lady of Fashion and the Poet.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Queen was greatly pleased at the General’s words
-and arrangements were made for the exchange of the prisoners.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>That same day all the wild men, except the ones who
-were in the hospital and who were too sick to leave, were
-set free.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i115.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic003'>
-<p><span class='color_blue'><span class='sc'>The General and the Queen of the Wild Men at the Peace Dance.</span>—<i>Chapter Twenty-five.</i></span></p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>They were taken, under guard of several soldiers, to
-the stream where the General had met the Queen. The
-Lady of Fashion and the Poet were waiting for them and
-the Teenie Weenie soldiers gave three mighty cheers
-when they saw their friends. The prisoners were exchanged
-and the Lady of Fashion and the Poet were
-taken to the Teenie Weenie camp, where they were
-given a royal welcome.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Lady of Fashion was so happy to be again among
-her friends that she did a very ladylike thing—she cried.
-The nurses cried and several of the men were seen to blow
-their tiny noses and blink their eyes.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Oh, I’m so happy to be safe with you all again,”
-cried the Lady of Fashion as she hugged the General for
-the tenth time. “I don’t know what those nasty wild men
-captured us for, we never could find out, but I will say for
-them that they were very good to us.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well, we are mighty glad to have you with us again,”
-said the General. “And it’s through the loyalty of every
-soldier in our army that your rescue has been accomplished.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I know it. I know it,” cried the little lady, and she
-hugged every single man in the army except the Chinaman,
-who was so embarrassed that he ran off and hid in a
-hollow log for nearly an hour.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The two nurses took the Lady of Fashion to their
-tent, where she washed until she was as clean as a drop
-of dew.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>That night the army gathered around a roaring bonfire
-and eagerly listened to the Poet while he told them
-how he and the Lady of Fashion had spent their time
-as prisoners of the wild men. When he had finished, the
-little people sang songs, told stories and gossiped until
-after midnight, when the General ordered everyone to
-bed.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“It’s so nice to sleep in a clean, honest-to-goodness
-bed again,” said the Lady of Fashion when she crawled
-into one of the tiny cots in the nurses’ tent, but she didn’t
-sleep a great deal, for the three little women had so
-much to talk about. They whispered and giggled until
-early morning.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i118.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch25' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty-Five<br /> <br />THE PEACE DANCE</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>“Well, folks,” announced the General the next
-morning as he sat down to breakfast with several
-of his officers, the Lady of Fashion and the Poet, “we
-must make ready for the march home. We have a long
-journey ahead of us and we must get started as soon as
-possible.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I don’t see how we can,” answered the Doctor, who
-was helping himself to a piece of frog ham. “The
-Sailor is in no condition to be moved and, besides, I still
-have a couple of the wild men on my hands, who are
-in such shape I can’t leave them for a few days.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“That’s so! That’s so!” exclaimed the General. “Of
-course we’ll have to stay until our duty is done.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“My patients are all doing well and I don’t see why
-we won’t be able to get away in five or six days,” said
-the Doctor.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The little soldiers were greatly disappointed when
-they heard that the army would not start immediately
-for home, for now that the war was over they were all
-anxious to return. However, they made the best of their
-time by fishing, swimming and playing games.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>One morning a sentinel came to the General’s tent,
-followed by one of the wild men.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“This fellow has a message for you,” said the sentinel
-pointing to the wild man, who held a piece of folded
-birch bark in his hand. “There are about twenty-five
-more of ’em waiting out beyond our lines and they’ve
-each got a big bundle all wrapped up in leaves.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The General opened the note which the wild man
-handed him, but when he found it was written in the
-Sabo language he sent for the Poet.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“You’ll have to translate this gibberish for me,” said
-the General when the Poet appeared. “It’s too much
-for me.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Poet carefully read the note and then repeated
-it to the General.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“It’s from the Queen and she is sending you greetings
-and some presents,” said the Poet. “She also invites
-you to the great Dance of Peace and Plenty. This
-is the dance the wild men dance whenever they make
-peace with their enemies. You must go to the dance,
-for that is the way the wild men have of showing that
-they want to be friendly.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“All right,” answered the General; “tell her I’ll come.
-Thank her for the presents and give her my regards.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>A number of soldiers were sent out to bring in the
-presents the Queen had sent and when they were unwrapped
-the little people were surprised to find a number
-of fat frog hams, a quantity of wild rice, a large jar
-of fruit paste made out of wild berries, many nut meats
-and sweet seeds.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“We ought to send a present to the Queen in return
-for all this food,” said the General. “What shall we send
-her?”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Send her that thimble the Dunce ruined trying to
-make a suit of armor,” answered the Poet, who had heard
-the story of the Dunce’s armor.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Not that old thimble!” exclaimed the General.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Sure,” laughed the Poet. “She will think that it is
-wonderful!”</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i121.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>So the thimble was sent to the Queen, who prized it
-more than anything else she owned.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>On the appointed day the General set off for the
-dance with a number of the Teenie Weenies, and as they
-drew near the village they were met by a body of wild
-men who had been sent out as a guard of honor to escort
-the General into the village. He was led to a spot beneath
-a big bush where the Queen sat cross-legged on a wonderfully
-soft piece of cloth which had been thrown on
-the ground. Over her head hung another cloth which
-was fastened at the four corners to long poles held in the
-hands of four wild men.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>A great many wild men and women stood about an
-open spot under the bush, which had been swept until
-it was as clean as a pin. Many children ran about the
-place, some of them climbing onto the grass houses and
-into the trees. On the edge of the crowd stood several
-small animals, and some birds were perched in the bush
-overhead.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The General made a low bow to the Queen and when
-she motioned for him to sit by her side, he sat down on
-the soft cloth. The Queen and the General talked for
-some time through the Poet, who translated for them.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Presently the Queen gave a command to one of her
-warriors and instantly several men, who were sitting on
-the ground in front of the Queen, began to beat on
-drums. The drums were made out of a piece of hollow
-reed. The ends were covered with snake skin and they
-made a very pretty, mellow sound. Another man beat
-on a piece of wood which had been fixed to a split reed,
-while three or four women beat paddles together in
-time with the music.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Instantly a number of voices broke into a loud song
-from behind a house near by and presently the dancers
-came hopping and prancing into the cleared spot
-before the Queen. First came a warrior with a long
-spear and when he danced directly in front of the Queen
-he broke the spear in two over his knee. Next came a
-man with a queer seed pod over his head and in one
-hand he carried a whip with which he struck the warrior
-every now and then. In the other hand he carried
-a dried seed pod which rattled loudly in time with the
-song. The next dancer wore a frog’s head and hopped
-in time with the music, much after the fashion of a frog.
-Several girls followed the frog man, carrying plates of
-smoked frog ham and rice cakes.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“The first man in the dance,” explained the Poet to
-the General, “is the Spirit of War. He broke the spear
-to show you that the war was over and the next man
-rattled the seed pod and struck him with the whip to
-scare him away, which means that the wild men are
-through with war and wish to get rid of the War Spirit.
-The frog man represents the frog meat which the wild
-men eat, and his funny dance means that good times are
-coming, for you see the pretty girls follow with plates
-of rice cakes and meat.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The dancers performed for several minutes and then
-the man with the whip and rattle chased the Spirit of
-War over the hill out of sight, which meant that the
-Spirit of War was gone for good.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>After the dance a great fire was built and when a
-heap of hot ashes had burned, the wild men wrapped
-several frog hams in sassafras leaves and put them into
-the hot bed of ashes to roast. When the hams were cooked
-they were cut into slices and served to the Teenie Weenies
-and the wild men. Wonderfully delicious rice cakes
-were also served and the Teenie Weenies ate until they
-were quite filled. The greedy Dunce ate so much he
-became quite ill and had to be carried back to the Teenie
-Weenie camp, where the Doctor was kept busy most
-of the night putting heated buttons on his aching
-tummy, until the pain was gone.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id012'>
-<img src='images/i124.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch26' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty-Six<br /> <br />HOME</h2>
-</div>
-<div class='lg-container-b c023'>
-  <div class='linegroup'>
-    <div class='group'>
-      <div class='line'>Put a bean on to boil, Mr. Cook!</div>
-      <div class='line'>Put a bean on to boil, Mr. Cook!</div>
-      <div class='line in2'>For an army, it must eat</div>
-      <div class='line in2'>And rest its weary feet;</div>
-      <div class='line'>So put on a bean, Mr. Cook!</div>
-    </div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c017'>The Teenie Weenie soldiers sang this song as they
-sat about their tiny camp fire one evening shortly
-after the peace dance. They were all happy, for they
-were to start for home in the morning. The Sailor was
-now well enough to stand the long trip and that was all
-that had been holding them back.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“He can stand the trip,” the Doctor said, “if he is carried
-in some way that will not jolt him. He was badly
-wounded and I wouldn’t care to have him ride in one
-of the army wagons, as they are much too rough.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“We can make a litter and get two mice to carry it,”
-suggested Tess Bone.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“That’s a good idea,” said the Doctor. “He will rest
-that way in fine shape.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The Turk and the Old Soldier agreed to make the
-litter and in a short time they had built such a cozy one
-the Sailor was quite pleased with it.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Crickety!” exclaimed the Dunce when he saw the litter,
-“I wish I was wounded so I could ride in that instead
-of walkin’ all the way home.”</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i126.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>The army wagons were loaded and early in the morning
-the little army began the long journey home. First
-the cannon and then the baggage and wagons had to
-be moved across the river on the raft. It took the little
-people all day to move across the river, for many trips
-had to be made with the clumsy raft. But at the end of
-the day not a single Teenie Weenie was left on Sabo
-Island.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>As Queen Mooie had given the Teenie Weenies so
-many presents of frog hams, rice cakes, delicious seeds
-and many hickory nut meats, the little people were well
-supplied with good food. Every evening after the day’s
-march the happy little army ate their meal gathered
-around a glowing camp fire. They laughed and joked,
-sang songs, told stories and gossiped with the many
-birds and animals of the woods who gathered about the
-camp fire.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Often the Teenie Weenies listened to a strange tale of
-the forest, told by some owl or chipmunk, and quite
-often the birds sang to them.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>One evening a wicked old weasel came prowling
-around the camp. The little folks were quite alarmed
-about it, for the old fellow hung around for a long time.
-They could see his wicked green eyes shining in the
-light from the camp fire and when the General asked
-him what he wanted, he never answered. At last the
-General told several of the soldiers to fire off their rifles.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Shoot in the air over his head and give him a good
-scare,” ordered the General. “I think that will fix him.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>At the first sound of the guns the weasel quickly disappeared
-into the night and nothing more was seen of
-him, although the men kept a mighty close watch for
-several days.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>When the army came to the place where they had
-built the bridge, they found the squirrel whom they had
-hired to guard it, on duty.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well, here I am,” shouted the squirrel. “And here is
-the bridge just as you left it.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“You have done your duty well,” said the General,
-and he ordered the Cook to pay the squirrel the ten sunflower
-seeds and the hickory nuts which had been promised
-him.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well, I always believe in doin’ my duty,” said the
-squirrel. “If I agree to do a thing I always stick to my
-word—I’d rather lose every whisker I’ve got than go
-back on my word.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>A bluejay who was sitting in a bush near by snickered
-and the squirrel gave him a nasty look. The Teenie
-Weenies thought for a minute that there might be
-a quarrel, but the bluejay flew off, so they felt much
-easier.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>After a pleasant talk with the squirrel, the General
-ordered the army to march on and as long as the Teenie
-Weenies were in sight the squirrel waved to them
-from the top of an old stump.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The trip seemed to agree with the Sailor. He grew
-stronger and stronger under the watchful eye of the Doctor
-and the two dainty nurses. He was fed on broth and
-a tiny bit of poached bird’s egg each day, and as the
-army drew near home he was almost strong enough to
-walk.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>One day the Teenie Weenies were surprised to hear
-a bird shout to them from a bush over their heads and
-when they looked up they saw it was Tilly Titter, the
-English Sparrow—an old and trusted friend.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Of course the General ordered a halt, while the men
-gathered around the sparrow and asked many questions.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“How are the twins?” asked Mr. Lover.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Fine! Just fine!” cried the bird. “I was over to the
-village yesterday and they were playin’ foot ball with
-a gooseberry. They are as husky as a caterpillar in a
-mulberry bush. Your wife is as fat as butter; I’ll bet she
-has gained half an ounce since you left her.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>After the Teenie Weenies had learned all the news
-from home the General gave a message to Tilly and
-asked her to deliver it to the Teenie Weenie village.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“You can just bet your last fish worm I’ll carry that
-message as quick as I can,” said the bird. “Everyone in
-the village will be tickled to death to hear that you are
-so near home. Grandpa will be so ’appy ’e’ll shout
-’imself ’oarse.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Spreading her wings, Tilly Titter flew into the air and
-quickly disappeared in the direction of the Teenie Weenie
-village.</p>
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c005' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 id='ch27' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty-seven<br /> <br />THE GRAND REVIEW</h2>
-</div>
-<p class='c002'>Tilly Titter flew as she never flew
-before and in a short time she
-landed on the ground beside the shoe
-house, her feathers all ruffled up with
-excitement.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I’ve got news,” she shouted, as the
-little women gathered about her. “I’ve
-just come from the General
-and the army will be home
-in about three days.”</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i130.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Is my husband well?”
-shouted Mrs. Lover.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“He’s as healthy as a
-dandelion and as pink as a rose bud,” answered Tilly.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“How’s the Poet and the Lady of Fashion?” asked
-Grandpa.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well and ’appy,” cried Tilly. “As I was a sayin’,
-the army will be ’ome in about three days. The General
-said to tell you that they would arrive on Friday afternoon
-if everthing goes well. He says for you to have a
-good supper ready for the boys and to have plenty, for
-they will be as hungry as young robins.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Is the Sailor getting along nicely?” asked Miss Guff.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Fine as a fiddle! Fine as a fiddle!” answered the
-sparrow. “Wants to walk, ’e’s feelin’ so well, but the Doctor
-makes ’im stay in the litter and ride.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well, we have got to get busy and do somethin’ for
-the boys,” cried Grandpa. “We’ve got to give ’em a big
-feed and decorate the place with flags and show ’em
-we’re glad to see ’em.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“We’ll get up a grand supper for them,” cried Mrs.
-Lover, “and we’ll have a dance afterwards.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I’ll bring over a big chunk of cheese,” cried the
-mouse that had joined the crowd.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I’ll get some fat worms for the supper,” cried Tilly,
-and instantly she blushed a deep brown. “Oh, I forget
-you don’t eat worms. Well, I’ll get some sunflower seeds.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I’ll donate a few nuts,” said Nick, the squirrel, who
-had been hoping for a chance to speak.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Oh, I forgot to say that the General said ’e would
-come in ahead of the army so ’e could review them as
-they marched into the village,” cried Tilly.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“He’s going to review the troops, did you say?” asked
-Grandpa, who was hard of hearing.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Yes!” shouted Tilly, right into the old gentleman’s
-ear. “The General is goin’ to review the army.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Well, we got to get a reviewing stand ready for him,”
-cried Grandpa.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“I’ll help,” shouted the mouse, “and I’ll get some mice
-to help, too.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“All right, get ’em!” cried Grandpa. “The sooner we
-get to work the better it will be.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>In a short time the Teenie Weenies were as busy as
-bees in a clover field. The little women set to work cooking
-and baking. They made cakes and cookies by the
-thimble full. They made ginger cookies, nut cookies,
-chocolate cake, fruit cake and half an English walnut full
-of doughnuts, besides all sorts of other good things.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Grandpa put eight mice, a chipmunk and half a dozen
-bugs to work getting the place ready for the returning
-soldiers. They cleaned up the rubbish under the rose-bush,
-they moved all the desks out of the schoolhouse,
-where the dinner and dance were to be held, and they
-made a reviewing stand out of the top of a candy box.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Nick, the squirrel, worked hard opening nuts. He
-gnawed so many his teeth became sore, but he never complained,
-for he was a very patriotic squirrel and most fond
-of the Teenie Weenies.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id006'>
-<img src='images/i133.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>The little folks decorated the village with Teenie
-Weenie flags and bunting and when the time arrived for
-the army to march home the village was crowded with
-all sorts of visitors. Bugs, mice, squirrels, birds, chipmunks,
-and even a few chickens and ducks, crowded
-under the rose-bush.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>The General rode in ahead of the army and took his
-place on the reviewing stand amid the wildest shouting
-and waving of flags, but when the troops came marching
-into view there was such a squealing of squirrels and
-mice and squawking of chickens, ducks and birds, one
-could hardly hear oneself think. Grandpa shouted so
-hard that he had one of his choking fits, and a mouse
-had to pound him on the back until he could get his
-breath.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>When the review was over there was much hugging
-and kissing and some crying, for most of the little women
-shed a few tears of happiness, but that’s a strange way
-women folks have of showing they are happy. One old
-hen cried so hard she had to be led away. A duck insisted
-on kissing the Dunce and a mouse hugged Paddy Pinn
-so hard it nearly broke his arm.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>After the little soldiers had visited for a time they were
-called into the old derby hat for supper and such a supper
-as they had! There was roasted bird’s egg, frog ham,
-escalloped hickory nut, walnut au gratin, creamed hearts
-of sunflower seed, water cress and wild cherry salad, and
-cakes and cookies and sliced grape and ice cream.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>When the little soldiers had eaten until they could not
-hold another morsel, the General arose from his seat at
-the head of the big table and made a speech.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Friends and men of the Teenie Weenie army,” he
-began, “I want to thank you for your loyal and hearty
-service. You have gone through hardships and you have
-risked your lives in battle without complaint. You have
-done this to aid those in trouble and nothing greater can
-be said of your deeds than that they were done willingly.
-Men, I am proud to have been your leader.”</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Three cheers for the army!” shouted a mouse who
-had been helping to wait on table, and the cheers were
-given with a will.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>Next the Lady of Fashion made a little speech. She
-very prettily thanked the General and the army for having
-rescued the Poet and herself from the wild men and
-as she sat down there were tears in her pretty eyes. The
-Poet spoke and Grandpa made a speech about the great
-war in forty-two, but few heard what the old gentleman
-said, for they were anxious to talk to one another about
-the great events of the rescue of their friends.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>“Friends!” shouted Paddy Pinn, when Grandpa had
-sat down, “I think the Dunce ought to explain to the rest
-of us just why that old duck was so anxious to kiss him.”
-Every one yelled so loudly for the Dunce that he was
-forced to stand up, but he was so embarrassed he couldn’t
-speak a word and the Teenie Weenies laughed so hard
-they cried.</p>
-
-<p class='c004'>When the tables had been cleared away the orchestra
-started playing and in a few minutes the little folks were
-swinging around to the music of “The Lady of Fashion
-Waltz.” They danced until nearly morning—in fact it
-was broad daylight when the tired little soldiers crawled
-into their tiny beds, every one of them mighty thankful
-that they were safely home again.</p>
-
-<div class='lg-container-b c024'>
-  <div class='linegroup'>
-    <div class='group'>
-      <div class='line'>“The war is over, our duty is done;</div>
-      <div class='line in1'>Hang up the pistol, the sword and the gun.”</div>
-    </div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c025'>Rufus Rhyme,</p>
-<p class='c026'><i>Teenie Weenie Poet</i>.</p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id017'>
-<img src='images/i136.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c000' />
-</div>
-<p class='c004'>&nbsp;</p>
-<div class='tnbox'>
-
- <ul class='ul_1 c005'>
-    <li>Transcriber’s Notes:
-      <ul  class='ul_2'>
-        <li>Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
-        </li>
-        <li>Typographical errors were silently corrected.
-        </li>
-        <li>Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant
-        form was found in this book.
-        </li>
-      </ul>
-    </li>
-  </ul>
-
-</div>
-<p class='c004'>&nbsp;</p>
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-<pre>
-
-
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+  <h1 class='c003'><span class='xlarge'><i>The</i></span><br /> <br /><span class='xxlarge'>TEENIE WEENIES</span> <br /> <br /><span class='xlarge'>IN THE WILDWOOD</span></h1>
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+    <div class='c000'>BY</div>
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+</div>
+</div>
+<p class='c006'><span class='small'>Mr. Donahey is of the staff of The Chicago Tribune, and to that
+newspaper the author-artist and the publishers extend thanks for courtesies
+in connection with the publication of this book.</span></p>
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 class='c007'>LIST OF CHAPTERS</h2>
+</div>
+<table class='table0' summary=''>
+<colgroup>
+<col width='10%' />
+<col width='75%' />
+<col width='15%' />
+</colgroup>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'><span class='small'>Chapter</span></td>
+    <td class='c009'>&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class='c010'><span class='small'>Page</span></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>1</td>
+    <td class='c009'>Alarming News</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch01'>7</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>2</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Captured Teenie Weenies</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch02'>11</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>3</td>
+    <td class='c009'>Campaign Preparations</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch03'>16</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>4</td>
+    <td class='c009'>A Warning in Camp</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch04'>20</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>5</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Queen of the Wild Men</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch05'>24</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>6</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Storm</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch06'>26</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>7</td>
+    <td class='c009'>A Suspension Bridge</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch07'>29</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>8</td>
+    <td class='c009'>A Badly Frightened Army</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch08'>33</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>9</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Captives Attend a Dance</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch09'>36</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>10</td>
+    <td class='c009'>Help from a Ground Robin</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch10'>39</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>11</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Poet Learns Sabo</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch11'>44</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>12</td>
+    <td class='c009'>Gogo’s Brave Act</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch12'>48</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>13</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Attack</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch13'>52</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>14</td>
+    <td class='c009'>On the Wild Men’s Island</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch14'>56</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>15</td>
+    <td class='c009'>A Council of War</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch15'>59</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>16</td>
+    <td class='c009'>Wild Men Bottled Up</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch16'>63</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>17</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Dunce in Disgrace</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch17'>66</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>18</td>
+    <td class='c009'>Consulting an Engineer</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch18'>70</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>19</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Old Soldier’s War Machine</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch19'>74</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>20</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Dunce Looks for Excitement</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch20'>79</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>21</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Scouts Have a Narrow Escape</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch21'>83</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>22</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Battle</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch22'>89</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>23</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Red Cross</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch23'>92</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>24</td>
+    <td class='c009'>Let There Be Peace</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch24'>96</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>25</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Peace Dance</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch25'>103</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>26</td>
+    <td class='c009'>Home</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch26'>109</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>27</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Grand Review</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch27'>114</a></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c005'>
+    <div><span class='xlarge'>The Teenie Weenies</span></div>
+    <div><span class='xlarge'>In the Wildwood</span></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch01' class='c007'>Chapter One<br /> <br />ALARMING NEWS</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>The Teenie Weenies had known for some time that a
+tribe of tiny wild men lived in a big swamp many
+teenie weenie miles from the shoe house. Field mice and
+birds had carried the news of these strange little people
+to the Teenie Weenies. The wild men lived in the heart
+of a big forest and they spoke a language quite different
+from the Teenie Weenies.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“These wild men are very cruel,” a friendly bird told
+the Teenie Weenies. “They are called Saboes, or frog
+eaters, and they would just as soon destroy a person as
+look at him.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, they will never hurt us,” the General said, “for
+we shall leave them alone and, besides, they live a great
+distance from the shoe house.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, you’d better watch out for them; there are a
+great many of these wild men and you can never tell
+when they might come along,” said the bird, who was a
+mourning dove and always looked on the dark side of
+things.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Teenie Weenies didn’t worry about the wild men
+much, for they lived so far away and, besides, there was
+the Teenie Weenie army ever ready to protect them
+against an enemy. But the little people soon had cause
+for worry, for a dreadful thing happened.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>One afternoon a snail raced slowly up to the shoe
+house with alarming news—the Lady of Fashion and the
+Poet had been captured by the wild men!</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Gracious!” gasped the General. “How did you find
+this out?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I-I-I-I saw them captured,” answered the snail. “The
+wild men took them and put them in their boat and paddled
+down the creek. There must have been five or six of
+the wild men. They all had bows and arrows and spears
+too, and they looked terribly fierce.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Ring the bell,” cried the General. “We’ll have a great
+council and see what can be done.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Several of the Teenie Weenies ran to the old derby hat
+which served the little people as a school house and armory,
+and began furiously to ring the tiny bell. All the
+birds and animals who lived near the little village knew
+that when the bell rang long and loud it was a signal for
+them to come. In a few minutes, two birds flew under the
+rose bush where the village stood and one by one, several
+mice, a squirrel and a couple of intelligent-looking
+bugs appeared.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Friends,” said the General, addressing the assembled
+crowd, “I have terrible news! The Lady of Fashion and
+the Poet have been captured by the wild men. This—this
+snail here has just brought the report.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Teenie Weenies and their friends were much
+shocked by the news, while the snail strutted about, feeling
+quite important at being the bearer of such an exciting
+message.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i011.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>“When did this happen?” asked the mouse with a
+squeaky voice.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“About five or six hours ago,” answered the snail. “I
+was walkin’ near the creek when—”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Five or six hours ago!” shouted the General, turning
+on the snail. “For the land’s sake, why didn’t you
+come immediately?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I-I-I did,” answered the snail, with an injured expression.
+“I came just as fast as I could crawl.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Of course you did,” said the General kindly. “I beg
+your pardon. I forgot for the moment that you do not
+move as fast as most of us.” The snail, who had rather a
+sensitive nature, was quite hurt by the General’s words
+and it instantly shrank back into its shell.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>After some talk it was decided to scatter up and down
+the creek in search of the lost Teenie Weenies. The birds
+flew up and down the creek until it was quite too dark for
+them to see, while the little people and the rest of their
+friends hunted all through the night without a sign of the
+Lady of Fashion and the Poet.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i012.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch02' class='c007'>Chapter Two<br /> <br />THE CAPTURED TEENIE WEENIES</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>While the Teenie Weenies were searching along
+the creek for the Lady of Fashion and the Poet,
+those two little people were being rapidly paddled down
+the stream and away from their friends.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Lady of Fashion and the Poet had gone to the
+bank of the creek for a picnic. They had eaten their
+lunch and the Lady of Fashion suggested that they walk
+down the stream in search of wild flowers. They had only
+gone a little ways when the wild men, who had been
+watching them, suddenly leaped upon them from behind
+a big bush. In a few seconds the wild little fellows had
+carried their tiny prisoners to their canoe, after having
+securely bound their hands behind them. Lifting the Teenie
+Weenies into the boat the wild men jumped in after
+them and began to paddle down the creek.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“This is a pretty bag of seeds,” moaned the Poet as the
+boat shot rapidly down the stream. “It’s hard to tell
+what will become of us now.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“If—if we could just get word to the General,” whispered
+the Lady of Fashion, “he’d bring the army and
+come after these—these wild men and rescue us.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“There’s no chance of writing a note and dropping it
+somewhere, with our hands tied behind us.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ll tell you what we can do,” whispered the Lady of
+Fashion. “If we should see a bird we can call to it and
+ask it to tell the General that we have been captured.”</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i014.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>But the two Teenie Weenies never came close enough
+to a bird all that day, for the wild men paddled their canoe
+near the shore of the creek under the cover of the
+overhanging ferns and grass.</p>
+<div  class='figcenter id007'>
+<img src='images/i015.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><span class='color_blue'><span class='sc'>The Queen of the Wild Men, sitting on the back of her turtle.</span>—<i>Chapter Five.</i></span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>As the canoe floated along down the stream the Lady
+of Fashion and the Poet spent their time studying the
+strange little wild men, or Saboes, as they were called.
+They were sturdily built little chaps, but a trifle smaller
+than the Teenie Weenies. They had dark brown skins,
+bushy hair, and around their fierce-looking eyes were
+painted circles of white. One or two of the wild men wore
+shirts with skirts almost to their knees, but the most of
+them were dressed only in trousers which were made
+from the skins of young frogs. Their spears were made
+of long sticks with a sharp fish bone tied to the end, and
+several of them carried bows and arrows, while their war
+clubs were made by fastening sharp blackberry thorns to
+a short handle. Many of the little wild men wore strings
+of beautifully carved raspberry beads about their necks
+and arms, which the little fellows called “gum gum,” the
+Sabo name for money.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The canoe, which the little men paddled very skillfully,
+was made from a huge cucumber, and on the end of
+the boat was painted a queer face. This face was supposed
+to look like a cat and was meant to frighten the
+Saboes’ enemies.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When evening came on and it began to grow dark, the
+wild men stopped on a sandy beach, where they made
+the two Teenie Weenies understand by motions that they
+would rest a while.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Several of the Saboes bent over the stem of a tall dandelion,
+while one of the little men gathered an armful of
+the soft, fluffy down, which he put on the ground and
+covered with dry grass and sticks. He then took two
+sticks and rubbed them together so hard that they grew
+very hot and soon a spark fell into the dandelion down,
+which blazed up and quickly set fire to the grass and
+sticks.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Presently two of the wild men, who had disappeared
+in the direction of the creek, returned and one of them
+carried the leg of a frog over his shoulder. The little men
+cut the leg into great chunks almost as big as a pea and
+these were soon roasting over the fire.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Lady of Fashion and the Poet sat on a log beside
+the fire and although the Lady of Fashion tried hard
+to keep from crying, every now and then a tear would
+trickle down her tiny cheek.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Don’t worry,” said the Poet. “The General will find
+some way to come to our rescue. He won’t let any harm
+come to us.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I-I-I s-s-s-suppose so,” sobbed the little lady. “But
+I-I-I haven’t a clean handkerchief and—and—and my
+hair is a sight!”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>In spite of the fact that the Teenie Weenies were terribly
+worried, the roasting meat smelled wonderfully
+good and when it was done the prisoners’ hands were
+untied and they were each given a piece. Both ate a good
+portion and agreed that it was delicious. They wiped
+their fingers on a leaf and then the wild men tied
+their hands again and made them understand that they
+were to sleep.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>All night long the wild men kept up a bright fire. They
+took turns sleeping and watching their prisoners, but the
+two Teenie Weenies needed very little watching, for they
+were quite tired out with the day’s experience and slept
+most of the night.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>At the very first break of day the wild men were
+awake and after a hurried breakfast of frog ham and a
+blackberry which one of the men found, they once more
+pushed out in the canoe and paddled down the stream.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Two days later they landed on the island where the
+wild men lived. When the two Teenie Weenies stepped
+out of the canoe a great number of the wild little people
+came running toward them. The women and children
+stared at them in great astonishment, while the men
+danced and swung their clubs and spears in a most terrible
+way.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i019.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch03' class='c007'>Chapter Three<br /> <br />CAMPAIGN PREPARATIONS</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>All night long the Teenie Weenies searched without
+success for the captured Lady of Fashion and the
+Poet. The Indian found the spot where they had been surprised
+and taken. Their tiny footprints and the tracks
+of the wild men, as well as the spot where the canoe had
+been pushed into the water, showed plainly in the moist
+sand.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Him wild man, him get good start,” grunted the Indian
+after he had studied the footprints for some time.
+“We no catch ’um before him get home.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’m afraid not,” answered the General. “If that slow-poke
+snail had been a little faster we might have caught
+them.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Ugh!” was all the Indian said.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When all the Teenie Weenies had returned to the little
+village after the search, the General called a meeting.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Men,” he began, “we have got to do something and
+do it quickly!”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Call out the army, why don’t you?” shouted an excited
+mouse that had joined the crowd.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I believe we’ll have to,” answered the General. “I
+hate to use the army, but I don’t see what else we can
+do. These wild men are very savage and I have been told
+that there are many of them. If we go after the Lady of
+Fashion and the Poet, we are going on a hard and dangerous
+mission. We will have many long miles to march
+and there—there may be fighting. Now, men, I will put
+it to a vote. All those in favor of sending the army after
+the wild men in order to free our friends will say ‘yes.’”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Yes!” shouted every single Teenie Weenie, so loudly
+that they made the leaves tremble on the old rose bush
+overhead.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i021.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>The little people started at once to prepare for the trip
+into the forest, for it was there that the wild men lived. It
+takes a great deal of work to outfit an army and the little
+men were soon buzzing about as busy as bees.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Two squirrels offered their services, but the General
+was forced to refuse them, for they were such big eaters
+that the army could not afford to feed them.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Several mice were hired to pull the wagons and the
+cannons and also for the officers to ride.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>A great quantity of food and tools had to be brought
+out and loaded into the wagons. It took seven hundred
+grains of wheat, six hundred grains of corn, thirty raisins,
+six dried prunes, fifty-eight beans, to say nothing of
+cocoa, salt, pepper, baking powder, picks, shovels, pulleys,
+ropes, tents, a great quantity of cheese for the mice-horses
+and many other things.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>It was quite late that night before the wagons were
+loaded and most of the little soldiers slept in their uniforms,
+for the army was to start into the forest soon after
+daylight.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The army was to be made up of a division of ten infantrymen,
+two artillerymen, two mounted scouts, two
+cooks, a doctor and two nurses.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General was in command, with the Old Soldier
+as chief of staff, while Paddy Pinn had command of the
+artillery.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When the little soldiers had said their last good-byes,
+the men stepped into line and at the gruff command of the
+General they swung away towards the great forest in
+which the wild men lived. The Indian and the Cowboy,
+mounted on mice, rode ahead of the army and picked out
+the best and easiest road for the soldiers, while the Turk,
+who was chosen as the aviator, flew above the army on
+the back of a bird, ever watchful for enemies.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>At noon the army halted for lunch beneath the shade
+of a lilac bush, where each man eagerly devoured the
+grain of baked wheat which had been given to each soldier
+that morning as his ration.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>After they had rested a bit, and when they had filled
+their tiny canteens with water from an old tin can, the
+command was given to “fall in.” Once more the army
+took up the march.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The army had a hard time that afternoon, for the road
+it traveled was very rough. The little soldiers had to stop
+every now and then to chop weeds and dandelions from
+the road so the wagons and cannon could pass. Late in
+the afternoon the Turk told the General he had sighted
+an excellent place for a camp, and all the tired little chaps
+were made very happy when the order was given to make
+camp for the night.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i023.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch04' class='c007'>Chapter Four<br /> <br />A WARNING IN CAMP</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>The first day’s march was very hard on the soldiers,
+for the sun was hot and the little fellows were not
+used to such long tramps. When the order came for the
+army to break ranks and make camp ready for the night,
+the soldiers worked with a will unloading the wagons
+and putting up the tents. The kitchen tent was put
+up first so the Cook and the Chinaman would lose
+no time in getting dinner ready for the hungry army.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The mice that pulled the army wagons were given a
+good feed of cheese and they were quartered in a hollow
+tree for the night. The airplane ate ten grains of bird
+seed and hopped onto the limb of the bush under which
+the tiny camp lay.</p>
+<div  class='figleft id008'>
+<img src='images/i024.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+<p class='c004'>When the camp had been put in order for the night,
+mess call was sounded and the soldiers formed in line with
+their tin plates. The Cook had prepared
+two boiled beans and a thimbleful of
+corn soup for the army. Each man was
+given a plate of soup, a big spoonful of
+bean and a large piece of bread.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>After dinner the little soldiers gathered
+on the bank of a puddle of water,
+where they bathed their aching feet,
+while others took off their uniforms and enjoyed a
+good swim. The foolish Dunce dived head first into the
+pool without first testing the water to see how deep it
+was and he nearly broke his silly neck, for the hole was
+only three Teenie Weenie feet (a little over an inch and a
+half) deep.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Believe me!” exclaimed the Dunce after he was pulled
+out of the water and sat on the bank rubbing a big bump
+on his head, “I’m through diving. I wouldn’t dive into a
+teacup full of water even if I could see the bottom.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General decided to let the army rest for a day, as
+the soldiers all complained of sore feet and, besides, one
+of the horses was bothered with a lame leg, which had
+been hurt in a mouse trap a few days before. The men
+were given a little light rifle practice, while Paddy Pinn
+tried out the cannon at long range shooting, bringing
+down a dandelion in three shots at the remarkable range
+of four hundred and twenty Teenie Weenie feet (17 feet
+in our measurement).</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The noise of the cannon attracted the attention of
+many birds, squirrels, bugs and field mice, who gathered
+around the edge of the camp with wide-open eyes.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“What’s the trouble?” asked a bright-eyed chipmunk.
+“Is there a war or somethin’?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“No,” answered the General kindly. “We are on our
+way to rescue a couple of Teenie Weenies who have been
+stolen by the wild men who live in the heart of the big
+woods.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, you’d better go back,” warned the Chipmunk.
+“Those wild men are a bad lot and they are as thick as
+bees in clover time.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We are not afraid,” answered the General. “We will
+keep on until we have rescued our friends.”</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i026.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>“All right! All right!” said the Chipmunk solemnly.
+“I wouldn’t give a wormy chestnut for your lives, but
+that’s your choosing, not mine. Let me tell you one thing—don’t
+forget that I warned you.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Thank you just the same for your advice,” said the
+General, “but we must go on.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“All right!” muttered the Chipmunk. “But remember
+I warned you.” And shaking his head wisely he scampered
+off into the thick weeds.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The little soldiers rolled themselves up in their tiny
+blankets almost immediately after supper and almost before
+the sun had disappeared over the western hills they
+were sound asleep, for they were to be up and well on the
+march before daylight again would appear.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i027.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch05' class='c007'>Chapter Five<br /> <br />THE QUEEN OF THE WILD MEN</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>Although the wild men who had captured the
+Lady of Fashion and the Poet were good to them,
+the two Teenie Weenies nevertheless were much alarmed
+as to what might happen, for the wild men kept their captives’
+hands securely tied, and they watched them closely
+at all times.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When the wild men brought the two Teenie Weenies
+to the island where the savages lived, the captives were
+the center of much interest.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Sabo men and women came swarming down to
+the water’s edge from all directions. They shouted and
+jabbered in a language the Lady of Fashion and the Poet
+had never before heard. Some came gliding out of the
+tall grass, while others peered from behind bushes and
+pebbles, quite as though they were a little afraid of the
+two helpless Teenie Weenies.</p>
+
+<div  class='figleft id009'>
+<img src='images/i028.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>The women were curious
+little people. They
+were dressed in short
+dresses which came down
+to their knees and the
+cloth was woven out of
+thistledown and was
+wonderfully soft. The women dressed their hair in a
+strange manner. The Lady of Fashion could hardly
+keep from laughing at them, for it was coiled up to a
+point high in the air, shaped much like an ice cream cone.
+Most of the men were dressed in frogskin trousers, while
+the children wore bits of cloth about their waists.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The men and women gathered around and carefully
+examined the clothes of the two Teenie Weenies, especially
+the Poet’s glasses, which were considered very wonderful
+by the wild little people.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>After a time the Lady of Fashion and the Poet were
+led along a path toward the center of the island, followed
+by a great crowd of Saboes. Presently one of the wild men
+who was walking ahead suddenly dropped to his knees
+and kissed the ground. Looking up, the two Teenie
+Weenies saw a very big turtle with a very short, fat
+woman sitting on its back. A man who walked beside
+the turtle with a hook in his hand, gave the turtle a sharp
+blow on the nose and the big fellow pulled his head into
+his shell and stopped.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well!” exclaimed the Lady of Fashion. “I wonder
+who this fine lady can be.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Why, why, this must be a sort of queen,” answered
+the Poet. “Maybe she is the queen of the wild men.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Poet had guessed correctly. The fat lady on the
+turtle was no other than Her Royal Highness, Queen
+Mooie, ruler of the wild men.</p>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch06' class='c007'>Chapter Six<br /> <br />THE STORM</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>Before the sun had time to peep over the eastern
+hills the third morning, the little army was on the
+march. All day the soldiers tramped along, stopping
+every now and then to rest a few minutes beneath the
+shade of a friendly dandelion or burdock. All along the
+line of march many bugs, ants and birds gathered by the
+roadside to cheer the brave little army as it trudged by.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“General,” said the Turk, as he slid off the back of the
+airplane, “it looks to me as though we were going to have
+a storm and I would suggest that you lose no time in finding
+a dry place to house the army.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“All right,” answered the General, “I’ll order the Indian
+to ride ahead and select a place to camp.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Even as the General spoke, the little soldiers heard the
+distant rumble of thunder, and the Indian, putting spurs
+to his mouse, quickly bounded away in search of a camp.
+Presently he returned with the good news that he had
+found a fine place to weather the storm.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i031.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>A hollow log had been selected for the camp and the
+little men soon pulled the cannon and army wagons into
+the dark hole. In a short time the storm broke with great
+fury and it was a mighty good thing that the little army
+was protected by the hollow log, for the burdock leaves
+under which the Teenie Weenies always sought shelter
+from the rain would have been a poor place in such a big
+storm. The poor mice who pulled the army wagons trembled
+in terror at the loud peals of thunder. The Dunce
+shook so much with fright he almost loosened the buttons
+of his uniform.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The storm passed quickly and the General ordered
+the army to be on its way, but the marching was hard and
+the men made slow progress, for the ground was muddy.
+The army marched around most of the mud holes, but one
+was too long and they were forced to wade through the
+thick mud. Most of the soldiers got over safely, but one
+of the wagons stuck in the mud and to make things
+worse, one of the back wheels was broken in trying to
+pull it out.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“This is a pretty pickle!” growled the Old Soldier,
+sliding off his mouse at the edge of the puddle. “We’ll
+have to work fast to get this wagon out before dark.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We might just as well unload the wagon, for we will
+never be able to pull it out while it’s loaded,” said the
+General.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>As the mud was quite deep, several of the soldiers
+were ordered to put on bathing suits and carry the baggage
+to solid ground. After much hard work the wagon
+was finally pulled out of the mud, although it took half
+the army and six of the mice to do it. As it was quite late
+in the afternoon, the army went into camp, while the Turk
+and the Old Soldier set to work to mend the broken
+wheel.</p>
+<div  class='figcenter id010'>
+<img src='images/i033.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><span class='color_blue'><span class='sc'>The Teenie Weenie captives view the fire-dance of the Wild Men.</span>—<i>Chapter Nine.</i></span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch07' class='c007'>Chapter Seven<br /> <br />A SUSPENSION BRIDGE</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>The General fumed and fussed over the delay caused
+by the broken wheel.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“It’s just one thing after another,” he grumbled. “If
+it isn’t one thing it’s something else.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, General, it won’t do a bit of good to worry,”
+said Tess Bone, one of the Red Cross Nurses. “We’ll have
+to do the best we can and that’s all anybody can do—even
+a Teenie Weenie can’t do more.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Of course, of course,” answered the General, as he
+paced up and down before his tiny tent. “I know it
+doesn’t do a bit of good to worry, but we must hurry if we
+ever expect to rescue the Lady of Fashion and the Poet.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The anxious General had the army up before daylight
+the next morning. They ate a hurried breakfast and were
+well on the way before the sun came up. In fact, the
+Dunce marched nearly an hour before he was fully
+awake.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The big rain of the day before had left many puddles
+along the way and the little army often had to splash
+through them.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>With the help of the scouts, the army was able to find
+the best roads, for the Indian and the Cowboy, mounted
+on mice, rode ahead and picked out the best path. The
+Turk was of much help, too, in picking out the best roads,
+for he was able to see a great distance from the back of
+his bird airplane.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“General,” said the Cowboy one afternoon as he rode
+up to the commander of the little army, “I believe there’s
+more trouble ahead of us.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“What!” shouted the General. “Great guns, now
+what’s the trouble?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, sir, there’s a stream of water and I’m afraid
+we’ll be forced to march a long way out of our road before
+we can find a place shallow enough to cross. I talked to
+a field mouse who seemed to be familiar with the country,
+and he said there was no place where the stream
+could be crossed for many miles in each direction.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I hope, sir, you were careful not to say where you
+were going,” said the General. “We are now nearing the
+land of our enemies and we are liable to meet with a spy
+at almost any time.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I was mighty careful, sir, and told him nothing that
+might be used against us,” answered the Cowboy.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General ordered the Turk to fly up and down the
+stream on a scouting trip while the army stopped for
+lunch. Late in the afternoon the Turk reported to the
+General that they would have to take a two days’ march
+out of their road to a place where the stream could be
+crossed. The army pushed on and shortly after dark
+stopped near the stream, where camp was made for the
+night.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The next morning the Doctor, the Old Soldier, Paddy
+Pinn and the General gathered on the banks of the raging
+stream to see what plan could be made for crossing the
+water.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i037.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>The banks were very steep and the water was quite
+too swift to ford, although the stream was only two feet
+wide (in our measurement). It was finally determined
+that there was nothing to do but build a bridge.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We can throw a sort of suspension bridge across the
+stream,” said the Old Soldier, who was quite an engineer.
+“It will take us about a day and a half to do the work,
+but we will save time, for it would take fully two or three
+days to march to a place where we could cross without a
+bridge.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The war council thought the Old Soldier’s idea a good
+one and the General ordered the men to start work at
+once. Pulleys and ropes were brought out of the army
+wagons and some big logs for supports were cut from a
+bush near by. Several cattails, which grew near the
+stream, were sawed up into logs for the floor of the bridge.
+The bird airplane carried the workmen and ropes to the
+other side of the stream, where work was soon started on
+a bridge fifty-two Teenie Weenie feet long.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i038.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch08' class='c007'>Chapter Eight<br /> <br />A BADLY FRIGHTENED ARMY</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>It took a lot of hard work to build the big bridge. Every
+single Teenie Weenie worked with might and main.
+Even the mice who pulled the wagons and cannon,
+helped the work along by dragging the heavy logs up to
+the place where the bridge was being built.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The little army was a full day and a half building the
+bridge and when the task was finished the wagons were
+loaded, the mice hitched to them, and led by the General,
+the army marched safely across the bridge.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>A big squirrel who lived in a tree near by was hired to
+watch the bridge.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We may want to get across this stream in a hurry,”
+the General told the squirrel. “If the wild men should push
+us back to this stream, and the bridge is destroyed, we
+certainly will be in a pretty pickle.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ll guard it with my life,” answered the squirrel, who
+had been promised ten sunflower seeds and four hickory
+nuts for his work.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The army once more took up the march and presently
+they drew nearer and nearer the forest. Great bushes
+overhung the path along which the soldiers marched.
+Tall, bright-colored toadstools grew by the wayside and
+everything was dark and mysterious.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>At noon the army was halted for lunch. The little soldiers
+sat on the soft moss under a big fern and each man
+ate the grain of boiled rice and bit of dried raisin which
+he had tucked into his tiny haversack that morning.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i040.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>When the men had eaten, the General ordered them
+to fall into line and stepping in front of them he said:
+“Men, I have been informed by our aviator and by our
+scouts that we are rapidly drawing near the land of the
+wild men, so from now on straggling will not be permitted.
+Soldiers wandering away from the army run the
+chance of being captured and we will soon have need of
+all our brave men.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General’s talk impressed the little soldiers, and
+the Dunce and Gogo, who often wandered away from the
+line of march, were very much “on the job” all afternoon.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>As the army marched beneath a bush, late in the day,
+it suddenly came face to face with a small garter snake
+that lay near a big stone.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“O-O-O-O-O-oh, j-j-j-imminie C-c-c-c-christmas!”
+screamed the Dunce.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The mouse on which the General rode gave one frightened
+look at the snake and quickly ran up the bush,
+dumping the dignified General off on his Teenie Weenie
+head. The rest of the army fled in all directions, in spite
+of the Old Soldier, who tried with all his might to stop the
+frightened soldiers. The snake was almost as badly
+scared as the army and it wriggled into a hole near by
+with remarkable speed.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, this is a fine army, I must say!” growled the
+General when the Old Soldier had finally got the soldiers
+back in line. “If you men run at the sight of a little snake,
+what will you do when you face real wild men?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Pardon me, sir,” said Gogo, saluting the General.
+“We-all don’t mind fightin’ the wild men, but—we-all
+done object to bein’ et.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Forward, march!” shouted the General, and the little
+army moved on towards the wild men’s land.</p>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch09' class='c007'>Chapter Nine<br /> <br />THE CAPTIVES ATTEND A DANCE</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>While the Teenie Weenie soldiers were gallantly
+marching to the rescue of their little friends, the
+Lady of Fashion and the Poet were being kept prisoners
+in one of the funny little houses of the wild men.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Queen Mooie, ruler of the Saboes, was a very fat little
+lady, and like all fat people, big or little, she was very
+good-natured. When the Lady of Fashion and the Poet
+were brought before her, she was much interested in them
+and she made a long speech to the two Teenie Weenies in
+her strange language, but not one word could the little
+people understand.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The house in which the Lady of Fashion and the Poet
+were kept was built up on posts about six Teenie Weenie
+feet (three inches in our measurement) from the ground.
+The houses were built up high as protection from the
+dampness, for the Saboes lived on a little island in the
+heart of a big swamp, and it also protected the little people
+from bugs. The floor of the house was made of sticks
+and the roof and sides were covered with a peculiar
+swamp grass. A flat stone about the size of a half dollar
+was placed on the floor, on which the wild men built a tiny
+fire to keep themselves warm in winter, and a small hole in
+the roof provided a chimney for the smoke.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Twice a day the wild men brought the two Teenie
+Weenies delicious pieces of smoked frog ham, with many
+tiny rice cakes, and every other day the two prisoners
+were given a blackberry.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>One night shortly after the Lady of Fashion and the
+Poet had been brought to the wild men’s village, the two
+Teenie Weenies heard the beating of a drum. For what
+seemed hours the little prisoners listened to the tumtum,
+tumtum, tumtum, of the drum. There was no use asking
+the wild man who guarded them just outside their door,
+for he couldn’t understand them, so there was nothing to
+do but listen to the tumtum, tumtum, tumtum, and wonder
+what it was all about.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i043.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>Presently one of the wild men
+climbed up the ladder to their house
+and motioned the two Teenie Weenies
+to follow him. He led them beneath a
+bush near by, where a lot
+of wild men were dancing
+about a great fire. The
+men sang a queer sort of
+song as they danced, while one strange-looking fellow,
+who was a sort of witch doctor, rattled a huge seed pod
+fastened to the end of a forked stick. The wild men performed
+this strange dance once a month, as they believed
+it would keep bad luck away from their tribe.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Queen of the wild men sat near the fire on the
+back of her turtle, while the rest of the Saboes stood in a
+circle about the dancing men. The fire had been built in
+a deep hole on top of a large stone and when the stone
+was almost red-hot, the wild men scraped the fire all out
+with long sticks.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Then they lined the hole in the stone with sassafras
+leaves, into which they threw four large frog hams and
+then covered them over with several big leaves. Sand
+was then thrown onto the leaves, covering the hams
+tightly in the hot hole.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The wild men built a fire all around the outside edge
+of the stone, and while the hams cooked they again took
+up the wild dance. When the hams were baked they
+were taken out and a piece was served to each person
+and the Lady of Fashion and the Poet both enjoyed the
+delicious meat.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>After everyone had eaten of the ham, the Queen
+ordered the two Teenie Weenies to be taken back to their
+prison, but although it was very late, the Lady of Fashion
+and the Poet could hear the loud shouts of the wild little
+people for many hours.</p>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch10' class='c007'>Chapter Ten<br /> <br />HELP FROM A GROUND ROBIN</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>The army was now in the very heart of the great
+forest and it took a lot of hard work to get the heavy
+wagons and cannon through the jungle. At times a path
+had to be chopped through the tall grass and all this
+had to be done as silently as possible, for the army was
+now likely to run across the wild men at any time.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I don’t want these wild men to know that we are in
+the neighborhood,” the General warned the troops. “It
+is much better to surprise them, and, besides, there is no
+telling just what they may do to the Lady of Fashion
+and the Poet if they discover that we have come to
+rescue them.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The path the army now followed was so rough that
+little headway could be made and the General had to
+order a halt every now and then to rest the mice and
+men. During one of these stops the General fell into conversation
+with a pert-looking little ground robin who had
+hopped onto the limb of a bush near by.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Do you know just where these wild men live?”
+asked the General.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ll say I does,” answered the robin, who used very
+bad grammar. “I knows more about ’em than I wants
+to. The nasty little scalawags! These wild men get most
+all the seeds hereabouts and it’s all an honest bird can
+do to scratch out a bare living.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Could you guide us for a few days?” put in the
+General.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i046.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Gracious!” tittered the bird, “you’d never reach the
+wild men’s place in a few days with all those wagons
+and mice. They live on an island. You’ll have to have a
+boat or somethin’ to carry you over the water.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I have heard that they live on an island,” said the
+General, “but I mean could you show us the way to the
+water where we would be nearest to the island?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Of course I could,” answered the bird; “that is, providin’
+it would be worth my time.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We will pay you,” said the General. “We’ll give you
+six sunflower seeds for your work.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Make it six and a half seeds and I’ll do it,” cried
+the bird.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General agreed and the bird hopped along ahead
+of the army, jumping onto a bush occasionally to point
+out the best path. After a couple of hours’ march, the
+army came out onto a sandy beach, where the General
+called a halt.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“This is the place and over there is the island,” cried
+the bird, nodding his head towards the water.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Teenie Weenies looked across the water and they
+could see the dim outlines of the island.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The ground robin was paid his six and a half sunflower
+seeds and in a short time the tired little soldiers put up the
+tiny tents and made a most cozy little camp. They named
+it camp Bitem, because of the many mosquitoes about the
+place.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>As the General did not wish a fire to be built for fear
+the wild men might see the light, the little army made its
+dinner on two sliced strawberries and a few grains of rice.
+No lights were lit that night in the camp and a strong
+guard watched carefully throughout the silent hours,
+which were disturbed only by the sentinels as they killed
+mosquitoes with the butts of their rifles or stabbed them
+with their bayonets.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Early the next morning the men set to work building
+a raft which was to be used in carrying the army across
+the water to the wild men’s island.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>A great many logs had to be cut, trimmed and brought
+to the water’s edge. The Cowboy hitched one of the
+strongest mice to the heavy logs and one by one they
+were hauled up to the workmen, who labored for nearly
+three days before the raft was done.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i048.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>While the men were at work on the raft, the Turk flew
+over the wild men’s island in search of a good place for
+the army to land and at the same time he kept an eye
+open for the Lady of Fashion and the Poet. He flew as
+near as he could to the wild men’s village without being
+seen, but he could see no signs of the two Teenie Weenies.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I think the wild men have the Lady of Fashion and
+the Poet locked up in one of their houses,” the Turk told
+the General when he slid off the bird’s back at the army
+camp. “I noticed one of the houses was closely guarded
+and I think we shall find them there.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We’ll soon find out,” answered the General, “for the
+army will be on the wild men’s island in a mighty short
+time.” Taking the Turk by the arm, the General showed
+him where the raft was being built.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i049.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch11' class='c007'>Chapter Eleven<br /> <br />THE POET LEARNS SABO</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>While the Lady of Fashion and the Poet were being
+held prisoner by the Saboes, the Poet very carefully
+listened to the wild men’s strange language and in
+a short time he was able to speak a few of their words.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Jinks, but it is hot in this shanty!” he said to the
+Lady of Fashion one morning as he wiped his forehead
+with his Teenie Weenie handkerchief and looked out
+through the tiny hole that served as a window in the
+house in which they were held prisoners.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“If the Queen would just let us go out and take a little
+exercise once in a while it would help a lot,” suggested
+the Lady of Fashion fanning herself with a dry leaf.
+“Why don’t you ask the Queen? Maybe she will let us
+take a walk now and then.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ll do it,” answered the Poet, and looking out
+through the door he called to one of the wild men who
+stood near guarding the house.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Gip bah wah hoo,” said the Poet, which means in
+Sabo, “We need exercise.” “Tell the Queen we want to
+get out of this shanty and take a walk once in a while,”
+he continued in the wild men’s language.</p>
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i051.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><span class='color_blue'><span class='sc'>The Wild Men attack the Teenie Weenies, as their raft nears the island.</span>—<i>Chapter Thirteen.</i></span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>The wild man grunted a couple of times and hurried
+off through the long grass towards the Queen’s house,
+while the two Teenie Weenies sat down near the tiny door
+to await his return.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Presently the wild man came back and told the Poet
+that the Queen said that the Teenie Weenies could take
+a walk whenever they liked.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, we’ll take a walk right this minute,” announced
+the Poet, and he quickly helped the Lady of Fashion
+down the tiny ladder.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Teenie Weenies strolled along through the
+streets of the village while the two guards walked a few
+feet behind them. A great many children followed the
+Teenie Weenies about but, although the Lady of Fashion
+tried to make friends with them, they were very timid
+and stood off at a safe distance.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>At one place two wild women were preparing dinner
+and the Teenie Weenies were much interested in what
+they saw. One woman was baking rice cakes on a flat
+stone under which a fire was burning, while a young girl
+was grinding wild rice into flour by pounding the rice
+with a small rock in a hollowed-out stone. Near the house
+was a hollowed-out log with leaves spread over the top
+to keep out the dust, and one of the guards told the Poet
+that the log was filled with salt water in which the frog
+hams were pickled before they were smoked.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i054.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>The two Teenie Weenies spent a very pleasant afternoon
+looking about the village and it was quite late before
+they returned to their prison.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Oh, dear me,” said the Lady of Fashion as she threw
+herself down on one of the soft grass mats, “I wonder
+what is going to happen to us. Do you think the General
+will come with the army and rescue us?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Of course he will,” answered the Poet. “All we have
+to do is to be patient and he’ll be here pretty soon.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“But what if he doesn’t know that we have been captured
+by these wild men?” asked the Lady of Fashion
+anxiously.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“He will know all right,” said the Poet. “The Teenie
+Weenies could see the footprints of the wild men in the
+sand where we were captured. That is enough to tell
+them what has happened to us.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Oh, dear, if they would only come!” And the poor
+little lady began to sob.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Here! Here!” said the Poet anxiously, for he always
+felt mighty uncomfortable whenever the Lady of Fashion
+cried. “You must not cry. That won’t do a bit of good—just
+makes you feel bad and me worse.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I-I-I c-c-can’t help it,” sobbed the little lady. “I want
+clean clothes, my hair needs washing, I want some of the
+Cook’s good apple butter, I want my toothbrush and I-I-I
+want to go home.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Poet tried his best to comfort her and presently
+she cried herself to sleep.</p>
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch12' class='c007'>Chapter Twelve<br /> <br />GOGO’S BRAVE ACT</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>After much sawing, chopping and splitting of logs,
+the Teenie Weenies finally finished building the raft
+which was to carry the little army to the wild men’s
+island.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We’ve got to give the raft a trial before we get all
+loaded up with supplies,” said the Old Soldier when the
+work had been done. “I’ll take it on the water this afternoon
+and give it a good try-out.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Quite right, quite right,” agreed the General as he
+sat down on a dry fern leaf. “We’ll have to send the army
+over in two trips. First the infantry can be taken over,
+then the raft can return for the artillery and some supplies.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Will the raft carry the cannon and the two mice that
+pull it?” asked the Doctor.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Certainly,” said the Old Soldier. “It even ought to
+hold a good-sized paving brick.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, you can just bet I won’t get on that old raft until
+it has been thoroughly tried out,” announced Tess
+Bone as she arranged her dainty little cap and patted the
+Red Cross badge on her arm.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“That’s the way I feel about it too,” added Sally Guff,
+the other nurse with the army.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“You don’t need to worry about this raft,” laughed
+the Old Soldier. “It’s well made and every log is securely
+tied with strong, number forty thread.”</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i057.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>Right after lunch the General ordered several of the
+soldiers to help the Old Soldier take the raft out for a trial
+trip.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>With the help of the big sweep on the stern of the raft
+and the use of several long poles, the little men slowly
+pushed the craft out into the stream.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Jumping beans!” exclaimed the Old Soldier as the
+raft slid easily out into the water. “That is what I call a
+good—” but the Old Soldier never finished the sentence,
+for at that very moment a big frog poked his head out of
+the water and hopped up onto the raft.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Oooooo, a-a-a s-s-submarine!” gasped the Dunce.
+“Jump for your lives,” and he leaped head first into the
+deep water.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Most of the Teenie Weenies gave one look at the ugly
+frog, followed the Dunce into the water and swam as
+fast as they could for shore. The Old Soldier and Gogo
+were the only men to hold their ground, and if it had
+not been for these brave little fellows, the frog would
+have captured the transport without a battle. The Old
+Soldier drew his sword and attacked the frog, while Gogo
+struck the big fellow over the head with the boat pole.
+The frog, who had been attracted by the red coats of the
+soldiers, had hopped onto the raft in search of a meal,
+but he quickly slid back into the water at the first blow
+of the boat pole.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The soldiers who had jumped into the water were
+much ashamed of their behavior and they all quickly
+returned to the raft and finished the trial trip they had
+started.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“My brave lad,” said the General, grasping Gogo by
+the hand when the raft returned from its trip, “in behalf
+of the Teenie Weenie army I want to thank you for your
+great bravery and I hereby promote you to first sergeant
+in the Teenie Weenie army.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Oh, dat’s all right, General,” said Gogo, much confused
+at the honor thrust upon him. “There’s no fool
+frog what’s done gonna scare me when I’s mad, and I was
+certainly mad at that fool frog.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The raft proved to be thoroughly seaworthy, so the
+General gave orders for the men to be ready to board
+her just as soon as the wind and current were favorable
+for the trip to the wild men’s island.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i059.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch13' class='c007'>Chapter Thirteen<br /> <br />THE ATTACK</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>It was a long trip to the wild men’s island and the
+General wished to make the journey under cover of
+darkness. “I want to land on the island before daybreak
+so we can surprise the wild men,” the General told his
+officers, who were gathered for a council of war.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“The Sailor tells me,” continued the General, “that
+the wind and current are just right to sail the raft over
+to-night. I will take over the infantry on the first trip
+and then the raft can return for the artillery and the baggage
+and the rear guard, which the Old Soldier will command.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Cook had a great pot of rice cooked and he had
+stewed five lima beans. This great amount of food was
+portioned out, and three days’ rations were given to each
+soldier.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>A number of picks and shovels, with a lot of bags and
+a chest of bullets, was loaded onto the raft.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Promptly at eleven o’clock the General, followed by
+several men, marched onto the raft and some of the soldiers
+with long poles quickly pushed out into the dark
+stream.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i061.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><span class='color_blue'><span class='sc'>The Teenie Weenies pull the captured Wild Men out of the bottle.</span>—<i>Chapter Sixteen.</i></span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Sailor and the Cowboy handled the big sweep at
+the back of the raft, while the Policeman and the Scotchman
+pushed wherever they could with the long poles.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>No lights were allowed on the raft and the men were
+ordered to talk only in whispers, for the General wished
+to land on the island unknown to the wild men.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“J-j-j-jimminie C-c-christmas!” stuttered the trembling
+Dunce, “I-I-I’m not a-a bit s-s-scared. Are you,
+G-g-gogo?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Not v-v-very m-m-much,” answered the colored lad,
+trying to keep his knees from knocking together. “I
+done hope we-all—”</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i063.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>But at that minute, the raft struck something with such
+a bang it nearly upset most of the little soldiers. In fact,
+the Scotchman would have tumbled into the water if the
+Cowboy hadn’t caught him.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The raft had struck the limb of an old tree that lay in
+the water and to the alarm of the General it stuck fast.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“This is terrible. Perfectly terrible,” groaned the General,
+glancing towards the eastern sky. “It will soon be
+daylight and the wild men will see us if we are delayed
+here.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The men worked with might and main to free the raft,
+but it was stuck tight to the snag and before they managed
+to get it free it was broad daylight.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“The wild men have very likely seen us by this time,”
+said the General, peering towards the island. “So instead
+of our surprising them, they probably will surprise
+us, but we have got to land. Examine your rifles and see
+that they are in condition to use, for we are likely to have
+a fight.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Look there!” cried the Sailor, pointing towards the
+shore, for the raft was now only a short distance from the
+island. “There’s something behind that stick.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Maybe it’s a wild man,” suggested the Dunce, turning
+a trifle pale. “Don’t you think we had better go back,
+General?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We intend to go on,” said the General, glancing
+scornfully at the frightened Dunce, “but if you want to
+you can jump into the water and swim back.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I-I-I think I’ll stay here,” said the Dunce as he
+thought of the many frogs and turtles that might snap
+him up if he tried to swim back.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>As the raft drew near the shore, several arrows whistled
+over the soldiers’ heads and instantly a number of
+wild men sprang up from behind a stick that lay on the
+shore and began shooting at the raft.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Make ready, men!” shouted the General, drawing his
+sword. “Shoot over the wild men’s heads when I give the
+word to fire. We don’t want to hurt any of them if we can
+avoid it.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“O-o-o-oh, I-I-I’m shot!” screamed the Dunce, as an
+arrow knocked his hat from his head, but the rest of the
+little soldiers never heard the foolish fellow, for they stood
+ready, awaiting the General’s order to fire.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i065.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch14' class='c007'>Chapter Fourteen<br /> <br />ON THE WILD MEN’S ISLAND</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>“Deliver this note at once to the Old Soldier,” said
+the General, as he handed the following letter to
+the army aviator:</p>
+
+<p class='c011'>Commander of the rear guard of the Teenie Weenie Army,
+Camp Bitem, on the Swamp Road:</p>
+
+<p class='c012'>My dear Captain:</p>
+<p class='c013'>We have had a battle with the enemy and our brave men
+have put them to rout.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>Our transport met with an accident and it was broad daylight
+before we landed on the island.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>The wild men attacked us as we neared the shore and sent
+a shower of arrows at us.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>I ordered my men to return the fire, and at the first crack
+of their rifles the wild men were greatly scared and ran off
+into the tall grass; I believe that it is the first time the wild
+men have ever heard a rifle shot.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>We have taken possession of a high bank where I have
+ordered the men to begin work on a trench.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>The raft is now on its way to your camp, and I want you
+to rush over the cannon and baggage as soon as possible, for
+I fully expect the wild men to attack us before long.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>I am sending this note by our brave aviator so you can
+have things ready to load on the raft when it arrives.</p>
+<p class='c014'>Respectfully yours,</p>
+<p class='c015'>THE GENERAL,</p>
+<div class='c016'>Commander in Chief of the Teenie Weenie Army.</div>
+
+<p class='c013'>P. S.—I forgot to say that none of my men was hurt in
+the battle except the Dunce, who was badly scared by being
+shot through the hat.</p>
+
+<p class='c017'>“Yes, sir,” saluted the Turk, and springing onto the
+back of the airplane he quickly flew out of sight over the
+water.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i067.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>When the Old Soldier received the General’s message,
+he set to work at once breaking camp and when the raft
+arrived the artillery was quickly loaded. The raft made
+two trips during the day and most of the necessary baggage
+was taken over to the island.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>A line of trenches was considered necessary by the
+General, who ordered Sergeant Gogo to direct the work
+and that brave little chap had the trenches done in a remarkably
+short time.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Nothing more was seen of the wild men, but the closest
+watch was kept, for there was no telling when they might
+appear again.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The little soldiers were much too excited to sleep and
+most of them sat about the tiny camp fire until a late hour
+talking of the day’s experience, but one by one they finally
+rolled up in their tiny blankets and slept, while the guards
+paced back and forth, ever watchful for prowling wild
+men.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id011'>
+<img src='images/i068.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch15' class='c007'>Chapter Fifteen<br /> <br />A COUNCIL OF WAR</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>For several days the army spent their time building
+trenches and making a comfortable camp, while the
+army scouts learned all they could about the wild men
+and the lie of the land.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Red Cross tent had been set up and the tiny cots
+looked very pretty, with their clean white sheets. Fortunately,
+there had been little use for them, as the army had
+been unusually healthy, the only exception being the
+Chinaman, who had been badly bitten by a pollywog, or
+tadpole, while he was taking a swim in the river.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>There had been very little excitement in camp for
+some time. Not a single wild man had been seen since
+the morning the army had landed on the raft and the soldiers
+had nothing much to do while off guard duty but to
+kill mosquitoes, which were thick about the camp.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Early one morning the Turk was called to the General’s
+tent, where he remained for some time.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Somethin’ doin’, I’ll bet,” thought the Dunce, who
+was on guard duty at the time in front of headquarters.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Something really was doing, for the Turk was ordered
+to fly out at once and make a careful map of Sabo Island.
+The Turk hurried to his tent, where he supplied himself
+with paper and pencils and a pair of tiny field glasses.
+The army airplane was dining on a fat worm when the
+Turk arrived, so he sat down and waited until the bird had
+eaten his breakfast.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We’ve got to go out and make a map of the wild men’s
+island,” said the Turk.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“All right,” answered the bird, “I’m ready,” and hopping
+onto the ground he squatted down while the Turk
+climbed up on his fat back.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id012'>
+<img src='images/i070.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Turk headed the bird to a big tree which grew on
+the river bank near the island and in a few minutes the
+airplane settled easily on the topmost branch. The great
+blue river lay far beneath the Turk and with the help of
+his field glasses he was able to make a good map of the
+island and the surrounding country.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When he returned to the Teenie Weenie camp the
+General immediately called a council of war and the little
+aviator was asked to explain the map in detail.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well,” began the Turk, “the circle marked Camp Bitem
+is the place where we camped and built the raft and the
+dotted line is the course we took to our present camp. The
+wild men have a sort of camp or fort, I couldn’t just exactly
+make out what it was, but anyhow they are gathered
+in some force on the only cleared ground between
+their village and our camp.”</p>
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i071.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p>MAP OF WILD MEN’S ISLAND.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We couldn’t march through the grass and trees and
+cut the wild men’s camp off from the village, could we?”
+asked the Old Soldier.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“No, sir, I don’t think so,” answered the Turk, “for I
+do not believe anyone could possibly get through the
+grass and trees.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, that’s too bad,” muttered the General. “I
+wanted to get those wild men out of that place with as little
+trouble as possible, but it looks as though we would
+have to take their fort by storm.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>All the Teenie Weenie officers gathered in the General’s
+tent listened solemnly to their commander’s words,
+for they knew it would be mighty serious if they were
+forced to charge the wild men’s fort.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i072.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch16' class='c007'>Chapter Sixteen<br /> <br />WILD MEN BOTTLED UP</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>“I done got ’em bottled up! I done got ’em bottled
+up!” shouted Gogo, the little colored Teenie Weenie,
+as he ran panting up to the General’s tent.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“What’s bottled up? What’s all the excitement
+about?” asked the General, popping his head through
+the opening of his tent.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Why I-I-I done ketched one of the wild men and
+turned him ovah to the guard and I done got three mo’
+corked up in a bottle.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Great Guns! This is exciting. Tell me about it,” cried
+the General.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, you see it’s dis way,” said Gogo, sitting down
+on a pebble and mopping his head with his tiny handkerchief.
+“I done took a walk out beyond the picket lines yonder.
+I knew I had no business wanderin’ out dere, but I
+jus’ kept on and pretty soon I run across a big bottle
+a-layin’ on its side.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I was kind of ’spicious about dat bottle, fo’ I done see
+through de glass where some dry grass had done been
+fixed up fo’ a bed, mighty like some one been sleepin’
+dere.</p>
+
+<div  class='figleft id013'>
+<img src='images/i074.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+<p class='c004'>“‘Gogo,’ I says to myself, ‘some one been sleepin’ heah
+in dis bottle and it ain’t none of de Teenie Weenies, fo’
+none of dem has been out heah dis
+far.’ Den I made up my mind that
+it mus’ be some of dem scalawag
+wild men and I reckon dey mus’
+stayed in dis bottle when dey was on
+guard duty watchin’ our army.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“‘But why did dey-all stay in
+dis heah bottle?’ I says to myself.
+‘It’s not cold nights.’ But jus’ den a
+big mosquito cam’ a-buzzin’ and a-buzzin’ round and den
+I knew dat the wild men been a-stayin’ in dat bottle fo’ to
+keep de mosquitoes from bitin’ ’em.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I says to myself, ‘Some of dese wild men will be comin’
+’round heah pretty soon and maybe I can done cotch ’em
+and extinguish myself.’”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Distinguish yourself,” corrected the General.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Yes, sah,” continued the little colored fellow. “Well,
+I done crawl under a leaf and waited. I done wait fo’ a
+long time, but pretty soon I done see fo’ of de wild men
+come sneakin’ along and pretty soon dey done make right
+fo’ de bottle. Three of ’em done crawl in de bottle and
+one of ’em done squat down outside by de openin’ of de
+bottle kinda like he was guardin’.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“‘By de great corn pone,’ I says, ‘if a couple of de Teenie
+Weenies was heah we could done cotch dese scalawags.’</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Pretty soon I thought to myself, ‘Why don’t you ketch
+’em yourself?’ So I done sneaked out up behind de wild
+man what was guardin’ de mouth of de bottle and done
+cracked him on de head with de butt of my gun. I didn’t
+hit very hard—just hard enough to stun him a little—and
+den I grabbed a cork dat was layin’ near by and stuffed
+it into de bottle and braced it with a stick of wood so the
+scalawags couldn’t get out. I then picked up de wild man
+I had knocked down and brought him into camp and
+dat’s all.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“A very brave deed, sergeant,” said the General. “And
+I will immediately send out a squad of men to bring your
+prisoners into camp.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Old Soldier was ordered to take a squad of men
+and go after the prisoners, while the Doctor was sent to
+dress the bump on the head of the wild man that Gogo
+had knocked down. After a great deal of work the soldiers
+managed to pull the three wild men out of the bottle
+and when they were brought into camp they were securely
+tied to a strong blade of grass.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i075.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch17' class='c007'>Chapter Seventeen<br /> <br />THE DUNCE IN DISGRACE</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>“Why are you making such a fine camp here, General?”
+asked the Doctor, as he noticed that the
+Teenie Weenies continued to improve the camp. “Won’t
+we have to move on pretty soon if the wild men do not
+attack?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We’ll stay right here for some time,” answered the
+General, taking off his tiny sword and laying it on the
+table which stood in front of his tent. “We are within
+striking distance of the wild men’s village, so the aviator
+tells me, and we’ll use this camp for our base of operations.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“General,” said the Cook, saluting the commander of
+the Teenie Weenie army, “I beg your pardon, but there
+is something I must tell you.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“What is it, sir?” said the General, returning the
+Cook’s salute.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Why sir, there’s a thimble missing from among my
+cooking things. I put two beans to soak in it last night
+and when I went to look at them a little while ago the
+beans were lying on the ground and the thimble was
+gone.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“That’s most strange,” said the General; “I’ll have the
+Cowboy look into the matter and see if he can find out
+what has happened to the thimble.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Thank you, sir,” said the Cook, “I’m a little short of
+cooking pans and kettles and I’d like to have it back.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Cowboy was ordered to look for the lost thimble,
+but before he had fairly started the search, the thimble
+turned up in a most peculiar way. Down the main street
+of the camp towards the General’s tent marched the
+Dunce with the lost thimble over his head and followed
+by a laughing crowd of soldier.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“What’s the idea of this?” asked the General as the
+Dunce stopped before him.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Safety first,” answered the Dunce.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“What do you mean by safety first?” asked the General,
+trying hard to keep from laughing at the ridiculous
+sight.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“W-w-well, you s-s-see,” began the Dunce, “I thought
+this thimble would make a fine suit of armor, and protect
+me from the wild men’s arrows. I took it out back of camp,
+got some tools and cut a couple of holes for my arms to go
+through and another hole to see through—”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Yes, and spoiled a perfectly good thimble,” put in
+the General.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Jinks!” exclaimed the Dunce, “I never thought of
+that.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Of course you didn’t,” answered the General sternly.
+“You have a habit of doing your thinking afterwards,
+and that is a mighty bad habit.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Quite right! Quite right!” cried a field mouse, who had
+been hanging around the camp for a few days. “Quite
+right, I says. There’s always a time to think. One ought
+to do a heap of thinking before one acts, I says.”</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i078.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Yes, you’re right,” put in the General, glaring at the
+mouse, who was very talkative. “One ought to think a
+great deal and then he ought to say only about one half of
+what he thinks.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Words of wisdom! Words of wisdom!” cried the
+mouse, never dreaming the General’s rebuke was aimed at
+him, and he strolled down the camp street quite pleased
+with himself.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Now, Dunce,” said the General, “I’m going to try to
+see if I can help you do a little thinking.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Y-y-yes, s-s-s-sir,” answered the Dunce.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’m going to make you wear that thimble for the rest
+of the day and that ought to help you to remember that
+you have spoiled a perfectly good cooking pot, just because
+you didn’t happen to think.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>All day long the poor Dunce was forced to walk up
+and down in front of the General’s tent, wearing the
+heavy thimble. It was a warm day and the thimble grew
+quite hot in the sunshine, so his punishment was pretty
+hard, but there is no doubt it did him a great deal of good.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i079.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch18' class='c007'>Chapter Eighteen<br /> <br />CONSULTING AN ENGINEER</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>The General studied the map of the wild men’s island
+which the Turk had drawn, in the hope that he could
+figure out a way to attack the Saboes without storming
+their fort. In storming the fort, the General felt sure that
+many of his soldiers might be injured and he wished to
+rout the enemy with as little damage as possible.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I have it! I have it!” exclaimed the General one
+morning as he sat studying the tiny map. “We can hire
+a mole to tunnel under the wild men’s fort and then we
+can blow it up with a firecracker.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Bully!” shouted the Old Soldier. “And before they
+get over the surprise of the explosion we can charge
+through the destroyed fort into the village.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“That’s the idea,” smiled the General. “We’ll go over
+to-morrow and engage the old mole who lives down by
+the river.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Moles are great engineers,” said the Doctor, “and
+what they don’t know about underground digging isn’t
+worth knowing.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The next day the General and the Doctor, with an
+escort of four soldiers, set out on the journey to the mole’s
+home.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“S-s-say, what is a m-m-mole anyhow?” asked the
+Dunce as the little party marched along.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“A mole? Why, a mole—let’s see, a mole—why a
+mole is a mole,” answered Gogo.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ll tell you what a mole is like,” laughed the Doctor,
+who had overheard the Dunce’s question. “A mole is an
+animal almost the size of a rat and he lives under the
+ground. He has very small eyes and ears, and he very seldom
+comes out in the day time, for it is pretty hard for him
+to see in the bright sunlight. He has very short and powerful
+legs with which he can dig very fast. He lives on
+worms and grubs and roots, and he is usually very gruff
+and bad-tempered.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Presently the little party came to the place where the
+mole lived and the General ordered the soldiers to halt.
+They had stopped by the side of a steep bank and near
+the top was a hole under the roots of a tree, which was
+the front door of the mole’s home.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Dress up in line, men!” commanded the General,
+“and when Mr. Mole comes to the door of his house I want
+you all to present arms, for we will have to use the greatest
+diplomacy in order to engage this fellow.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General stepped up near the bank and called
+loudly several times into the hole and presently a long
+furry nose appeared in the opening.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, what do you mean by awakening honest people
+out of a sound sleep?” growled the mole. “What is it?
+What do you want?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I beg your pardon,” said the General as he lifted his
+hat and made a low bow; “I’m awfully sorry I disturbed
+your rest, but having heard of your reputation as an engineer
+I have come to beg your services for the Teenie
+Weenie army. We want to engage you to dig a trench
+for us.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ll work for four fat white grubs a day and not a
+grub less,” snapped the mole.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i082.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>“That’s quite satisfactory,” answered the General.
+“We are willing to pay whatever you ask, but I want you
+to know just what the work will be. We want you to dig
+a tunnel in the ground so we can explode a mine in it.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I don’t care a snap of my tail what kind of work it
+is; all I want is my pay,” growled the mole.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“When may we expect you?” asked the General.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“To-morrow at four o’clock, not a minute sooner or
+later,” answered the mole.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Shall we have breakfast for you?” asked the General.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Why, certainly! Why, certainly!” exclaimed the mole.
+“How in the name of angleworms do you expect me to
+work without food? What do you suppose I’m workin’
+for—pleasure?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We’ll have a couple of nice young grubs for you,” said
+the General politely, although he was quite disturbed by
+the mole’s ungentlemanly manner.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Two grubs and a couple of angleworms would make
+me work better,” suggested the mole.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“You shall have them,” answered the General stiffly.
+“Good day to you, sir.” Lifting his hat politely, he ordered
+the soldiers to march back to camp.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id005'>
+<img src='images/i083.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch19' class='c007'>Chapter Nineteen<br /> <br />THE OLD SOLDIER’S WAR MACHINE</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>At exactly four o’clock the next morning the mole
+came into camp, and as the General had promised,
+his breakfast was ready. After the mole had eaten his
+grubs, he reported for work. The General showed the
+mole just where he wanted the tunnel to run and immediately
+the old fellow set to work. He burrowed his nose
+down into the soft ground and then pushed the loosened
+earth back with his powerful fore claws. He worked wonderfully
+fast and in less than a minute he had entirely
+disappeared into the ground.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>All day long the mole worked, coming out only for a
+few minutes at noon to eat his lunch, and at half past five
+in the afternoon he again appeared to announce that the
+tunnel had been finished.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General sent the Sailor into the tunnel to measure
+it, for he wanted to be quite sure that it reached a point
+just under the wild men’s fort.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“It’s just exactly eight hundred and fifty-eight feet
+long,” announced the Sailor when he crawled out of the
+tunnel a few minutes later. “I could hear the wild men
+walking on the ground above, so it must stop right in the
+middle of the fort.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“’Course it does,” snapped the mole. “Don’t you suppose
+I know how to dig?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When the mole had been paid for his work, he slipped
+off into the night without ever even thanking the Teenie
+Weenies for his pay.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Queer old surly fellow,” said the General as he
+watched the awkward mole waddle off.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Yes, but you have to admit that he is a wonderful engineer,”
+observed the Old Soldier.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, gentlemen,” said the General turning to his officers,
+“we have got to move our lines forward. You see,
+we are about eight hundred and fifty feet from the wild
+men’s fort and it is quite necessary that trenches be built
+forward so we will not have too great a distance to charge
+when we explode the mine under the enemy’s fort.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The officers all agreed with the General and that very
+night several men were sent out, when it was quite dark,
+to start the work.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The little soldiers had gone but a short distance when
+they were seen by the wild men, who sent a shower of
+arrows at them, and Gogo was slightly scratched on the
+arm, while one of the wild men’s arrows splintered the
+Old Soldier’s wooden leg, so the General ordered the work
+stopped for the time being.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Old Soldier was quite an engineer and when he
+had whittled out a new wooden leg, he set to work trying
+to scheme out some way by which the men could dig
+the trenches without being hit by the wild men’s arrows.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I have it,” he cried after he had puzzled over the matter
+for a time. “We can make a big screen out of sticks,
+one that is quite arrow-proof.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“How are you going to move it?” asked the Turk.
+“It will be too heavy for the men to carry.”</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i086.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>“That will be easy,” smiled the Old Soldier. “There’s
+a spool of thread among our supplies and all we have to
+do is to remove the thread and—”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Use the spool as a sort of wheel to roll the screen
+on,” put in the Cook.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Right,” laughed the Old Soldier. “We can push it
+ahead of us on the spool and be quite safe from the wild
+men’s arrows.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General ordered the screen made and at once, under
+the watchful eye of the Old Soldier, the men set to
+work building it. In a remarkably short time the screen
+was finished and early the next morning the Old Soldier,
+with six chosen men, started to push it toward the wild
+men’s fort.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i087.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>As soon as the wild men saw the screen coming toward
+them, they let fly a shower of arrows, but they either
+stuck fast in the screen or flew harmlessly over the soldier’s
+heads.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Great Guns!” cried the Old Soldier when the little
+party had pushed the screen quite a ways toward the wild
+men’s fort. “We forgot to bring along the picks and
+shovels.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ll get ’em, Captain,” said the Dunce, saluting
+the Old Soldier and hardly waiting for the officer’s permission,
+the Dunce ran for the trench which they had
+just left, as fast as his legs would carry him.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Dunce grabbed up three picks and with the help
+of the Chinaman who volunteered to go along, the two
+brave Teenie Weenies ran for the screen amid the flying
+arrows which whizzed all about them.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>All day long the men worked hard, pulling the screen
+along as they dug back toward the Teenie Weenie trench,
+and at night, six other soldiers took up the work where the
+rest left off. Several days of hard labor finished the work
+and not one Teenie Weenie had been shot, thanks to the
+Old Soldier’s screen.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i088.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch20' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty<br /> <br />THE DUNCE LOOKS FOR EXCITEMENT</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>From the new trenches the Teenie Weenies could see
+the wild men’s fort plainly. The little soldiers had
+to be very careful, however, for every time they showed
+themselves the wild men would let fly a shower of arrows.
+The soldiers thought it great fun to put their hats on
+sticks and push them out in sight of the wild men. At first
+this brought a tremendous number of arrows, but finally
+the wild men caught onto the trick and only an occasional
+arrow would fly at the exposed hat.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The men took turns guarding the front trenches. It was
+very tiresome work sitting in the narrow ditch waiting
+for something to happen and most of the soldiers would
+have welcomed the order to storm the wild men’s fort.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I can’t see why the General doesn’t get busy and
+take the fort,” growled the Scotchman one afternoon. Several
+of the men, who were off duty, were lying in a mossy
+place under some big ferns, discussing the matter.
+“We’ve got everything ready for the attack, the men are
+more than anxious to go into action and we could lick
+the stuffin’ out of the Saboes.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Keep cool, Scotty; we’ll get a chance soon enough,”
+said the Turk, who was very quiet and always took things
+calmly. “The General knows what he’s about and when
+he gets his plans ready, we’ll get all the excitement we
+want.”</p>
+
+<div  class='figleft id008'>
+<img src='images/i090.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+<p class='c004'>“Excitement!” exclaimed the Dunce.
+“That’s me. I’ve got to have some excitement;
+I’m sick and tired of sittin’
+around here without anything doin’.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Let’s get our guns and go out and
+see if we can’t shoot some dragon flies or
+mosquitoes,” suggested the Sailor.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Nah, that ain’t dangerous enough,”
+answered the Dunce. “I want to do
+something that will give me a thrill,” and
+getting up he slowly walked towards the
+tall grass near the Teenie Weenie camp.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General had given orders that
+none of the soldiers should leave camp,
+for the grass was so tangled and thick
+that it would be an easy thing to get lost
+and, besides, the savage wild men might
+be hiding behind the thick stalks of
+grass.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Jinks!” thought the Dunce as he
+peered into the dense grass, “the General
+wouldn’t scold me if I happened to
+stroll out there and capture a wild man.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>After some minutes of thought, the
+Dunce hurried to his tent, got his gun
+and sneaked unseen out of camp into the
+dark grass. He stumbled along for some
+time without making much headway, for the stalks of
+grass grew close together and the dead leaves tangled
+about his feet at almost every step. Presently he came to an
+open spot near the edge of the island, where he found
+walking much easier, but he had gone only a short distance
+when he suddenly saw four wild men ahead of him.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Throw up your hands—you’re surrounded!” shouted
+the Dunce, pointing his gun towards them.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The wild men, not understanding the Teenie Weenie
+language, started running towards the Dunce with loud
+yells.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The poor Dunce was so badly frightened he forgot to
+fire his gun and turning about he ran as fast as his short
+legs could carry him towards the Teenie Weenie camp.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The army aviator, who happened to be scouting above
+the shore of the island, saw the Dunce being chased by
+the wild men.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Quick!” he shouted to the bird on which he flew.
+“Fly just as close as you can to the Dunce and I’ll grab
+him as we sail by.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The bird flew straight for the ground and holding
+tight to its neck, the aviator grabbed the Dunce by the
+collar and snatched him from the very hands of the
+wild men.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Turk pulled the frightened Dunce up on the
+bird’s back and a few minutes later they landed safely
+in the Teenie Weenie camp.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, sir,” said the General when he had heard the
+Turk’s story of the rescue, “what were you doing outside
+the camp without permission to go out?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I-I-I-I j-j-just wanted s-s-some excitement and I-I-I-I
+thought I’d go out and s-s-see if I-I-I couldn’t capture a
+wild man,” stammered the frightened Dunce.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, did you capture any of them?” asked the General
+with a wink at the Old Soldier.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“W-w-w-well, I-I surrounded f-f-four of ’em, but they
+wouldn’t stay surrounded and they started to chase me,
+so I-I-I had to r-r-run.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, did you get any excitement?” smiled the
+General.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Oh, yes, sir, I-I-I got more than I-I-I was looking for.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, sir,” said the General, “I hope you got enough
+excitement to last you for a long time. You are guilty of
+an act of leaving camp without permission and I find it
+necessary to place you under arrest.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The poor Dunce was marched off between four soldiers
+to the tiny guard house, where he was left to think
+over his disobedience.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i092.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div  class='figcenter id014'>
+<img src='images/i093.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><span class='color_blue'><span class='sc'>The army aviator snatches the Dunce from the hands of the Wild Men.</span>—<i>Chapter Twenty.</i></span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch21' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty-One<br /> <br />THE SCOUTS HAVE A NARROW ESCAPE</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>“General, the men are getting restless. They want
+to get into action and it seems to me that we ought
+to hurry our plans for the attack,” said the Old Soldier.
+The two little officers were sitting at the tiny table in front
+of the General’s tent.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Yes, I believe you’re right,” answered the General
+thoughtfully. “The plans for the attack are almost ready,
+but I would like to get some more information about the
+wild men. I’d like to know just how many are guarding
+the fort, what sort of arms they have and a lot of other
+details. The Turk has been able to get much valuable
+information, but the grass is so tall around the fort that
+he has not been able to get very near in the airplane, so
+I’m afraid I’ll have to send the scouts out for the facts I
+want.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“That’s mighty dangerous,” said the Old Soldier,
+stroking his beard. “The jungle is full of the Saboes—they
+are swarming all through the grass, thicker than
+ants on a chocolate drop.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Yes, I know it’s dangerous, but I believe the Cowboy
+and the Indian can get through unseen and bring back
+the information I want,” the General said. “Either one
+of the little fellows is at home in the woods and grass.
+They are both pastmasters in covering up their tracks.
+Why, I believe the Indian could walk through a lady’s
+powder box without ever leaving a single track,” and the
+General said it so earnestly there was no doubt but that
+he spoke the truth.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Turning to the guard that stood near his tent, the
+General ordered him to bring the Indian and the Cowboy.
+“Tell them it is important and that I wish them to
+report at once.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>In a few minutes the two scouts appeared and, clicking
+their tiny heels together, they saluted in the most
+approved military fashion.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“You sent for us, sir?” said the Cowboy.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Yes,” answered the General, looking seriously at the
+sturdy little men. “I have a piece of work for you to do.
+First I want to tell you that it is mighty risky—in fact, it
+is extremely dangerous. I will not send you unless you
+are willing to go—you shall choose.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We are ready to go,” answered the little scouts
+quietly, and their loyalty touched the General greatly.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I want you to go to the wild men’s fort and get all
+the information you can,” said the General. “Find out
+how many men they have, what sort of weapons they use,
+note the condition of their fort and get some idea of the
+ground beyond the fort. Get all the facts you can and
+report to me as soon as possible.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Yes, sir,” answered the scouts and, saluting, they hurried
+to their tent, where they buckled on their tiny pistols.
+Next they each secured a supply of dried minnow
+and half a boiled bean, which they stuffed into their
+pockets.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>They slipped quietly out of camp and after a long and
+tiresome trip they finally drew near to the wild men’s
+fort. They could hear the voices of the wild men now and
+then and the two Teenie Weenies were forced to steal
+along with the greatest care. Presently they crawled up
+to a place quite near the fort where they could see the
+wild men every now and then through the long grass.
+The scouts watched the wild men for several hours and it
+was quite late before the little fellows could find a chance
+to crawl away safely and unseen.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Several times on their way back to the Teenie Weenie
+camp the scouts were forced to hide under leaves and dry
+grass to keep from being discovered, and once they had
+to lie for almost an hour in a hollow stick, as several wild
+men stopped near them to rest.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“It be heap much dark soon,” grunted the Indian as
+he peered through the grass at the sky.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We can never get back to camp before night and we
+couldn’t possibly get through this jungle in the dark, so
+we’ve got to find some place to spend the night,” whispered
+the Cowboy.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The two Teenie Weenies found a deserted bird’s nest
+in a bush near by, and, climbing up the bush, they soon
+made themselves comfortable for the night.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i098.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>Early in the morning the little scouts were awakened
+by voices, and looking over the edge of the nest, they saw
+several wild men coming towards the bush. The wild men
+stopped beneath the bush, where they soon made a fire
+and cooked pieces of frog ham for their breakfast.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The two Teenie Weenies had eaten what little food
+they had brought with them the day before and as they
+smelled the delicious meat cooking it made them as hungry
+as bears. There were too many of the Saboes for the
+two scouts to fight, so they could do nothing but lie quiet
+until the wild men had gone. In a short time the wild men
+finished their breakfast and after talking in their strange
+language for a few minutes they hurried away.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When the wild men had disappeared into the jungle of
+tall grass near by, the two scouts carefully climbed out of
+the nest and set off in the direction of the Teenie Weenie
+camp. Several times they had to hide behind sticks and
+leaves when the wild men passed near them, and once,
+three of the savage little fellows came so close to the spot
+where the scouts lay hidden that they thought they would
+surely be discovered. It was almost evening before the
+Cowboy and the Indian reached camp and the little fellows
+reported at once to the General. They gave the
+Commander of the Teenie Weenie army such valuable
+news that he at once called in his staff for a council of war.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The little officers talked for a long time and when they
+finally came out of the General’s tent, it was very plain to
+see that something was about to happen. Officers dashed
+about the camp giving orders, the Doctor and the two
+nurses busied themselves around the tiny hospital, while
+Paddy Pinn spent much time with his Teenie Weenie
+cannon.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Three of the soldiers carried two big firecrackers into
+the tunnel the mole had made. In fact, everyone was busy
+and the whole camp teemed with excitement, wondering
+as to what was to happen next.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i100.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch22' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty-Two<br /> <br />THE BATTLE</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>Orders had been given to attack the wild men in
+the morning and most of the Teenie Weenie soldiers
+slept very little during the night. At daylight a thimbleful
+of hot cocoa and a supply of bread was brought into
+the front trenches and while the little soldiers ate, the
+artillery kept up a heavy fire on the wild men’s fort.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>At last the order was given to charge and the excited
+Teenie Weenies climbed out of their trenches and dashed
+for the fort.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Although the soldiers’ tiny knees knocked together
+and their teeth chattered with fright,
+they went into battle with great
+eagerness, cheered by the voices of
+several meadow mice and bugs, who
+stood out of range of the wild men’s
+arrows.</p>
+
+<div  class='figleft id008'>
+<img src='images/i101.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>It was a great victory. Probably
+the history of the battle can be better
+told by one who took part in it, so we
+shall hear the story from a letter written
+by Mr. Lover to his wife immediately
+after the battle. The tiny letter
+was written on a piece of very thin birch bark, about half
+the size of a postage stamp, but if you could see it under
+a powerful microscope you would read it, word for
+word, just as it appears on this page.</p>
+
+<p class='c011'>My dear Bab:</p>
+<p class='c013'>As the Indian is carrying the official news of the battle
+back to Shoehurst, you will know before you open this letter
+that we have won. It was wonderful and I will tell you all
+about it from the very first. The wild men’s fort, which was
+made of strong sticks, lay in a narrow path guarding the only
+open road to the village, where the Lady of Fashion and Poet
+are held prisoners. In order to get to the village we had to
+capture the fort. We heard the night before that we were to
+storm the fort in the morning and believe me, we didn’t sleep
+much; that is, I didn’t. I was as nervous as a cat in a dog
+house.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>Early in the morning the aviator flew over the fort and
+dropped pepper bombs. These bombs are made out of red
+pepper tied up in thin pieces of tissue paper and when they
+hit the ground they break and scatter the pepper all around.
+While the wild men were sneezing from the effects of the
+pepper, the artillery opened up and sent a lot of shot into
+the fort.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>Next, a big mine we had made under the fort was exploded.
+There were two big firecrackers in it and, say, you
+ought to have seen the sticks fly up in the air when that mine
+went off! Right after the mine explosion we were ordered
+to charge and we jumped out of the trenches and started on
+the run for the fort.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id015'>
+<img src='images/i103.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><span class='color_blue'><span class='sc'>The Teenie Weenie Army Drives the Wild Men from their WRECKED FORT.</span>—<i>Chapter Twenty-two.</i></span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c013'>We were almost halfway there when the Sailor, who was
+carrying the flag, dropped with an arrow in his chest. The
+Dunce caught up the fallen flag and putting his hat on top of
+the staff, he yelled for us to follow. Everybody cheered, for
+we didn’t think the Dunce had enough nerve to do such a
+brave thing.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>The fort was badly wrecked by the explosion, so it wasn’t
+hard to climb over it to get at the wild men. Most of the
+Saboes were so scared they never tried to fight, but a few of
+them stood their ground. They were quickly subdued, however.
+We captured fourteen men; five of them are wounded,
+but the Doctor has them in the hospital and he’ll fix them
+up all right.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>Four of our men were wounded, but the Sailor is the
+only one who was badly hurt. The Doctor says that he will
+pull through all right.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>We wanted to attack the wild men’s village, but the General
+wouldn’t let us. He says we have got to take care of
+the wounded and make our lines safe before we can go farther.
+Some of the men seem to think that there will be very
+little fight left in the wild men, for they were pretty well
+scared by our attack. The Scotchman and I are doing
+guard duty; we have to guard the prisoners. We are using
+an old bottle for a prison and it certainly makes a good one;
+if we keep on getting prisoners we’ll soon have a bottleful.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>I do hope the General follows up the victory and goes
+right after these wild men, so we can end this war, for I
+want to get home to you and the children.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>Well, I’ll have to stop now as the Indian is about ready
+to start for Shoehurst. Tell the twins I have a nice string
+of blackberry seed beads for each of them and give them each
+a kiss for me.</p>
+<p class='c018'>Affectionately,</p>
+<p class='c014'>Your Husband.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>P. S.: The Cook and the Chinaman have just brought
+up a pot of cocoa and four hot beans! Hurrah! we’re going
+to have a feast.</p>
+<div class='c016'>Hubby.</div>
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch23' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty-Three<br /> <br />THE RED CROSS</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>There was much confusion after the battle, for so
+many things had to be done, and done quickly.
+The lines had to be advanced and made safe against attack
+by the wild men. The prisoners had to be carefully
+guarded until they could be put into the grape juice bottle
+which was being used as a prison.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Then, there were the wounded. Both Teenie Weenies
+and wild men had to be given the best of care. Just as soon
+as the battle was over, the injured were gathered up and
+carried tenderly to the Red Cross field hospital, where
+the Doctor and his two little nurses dressed their wounds.
+The Clown and the Policeman carried the wounded into
+the hospital on tiny stretchers and just as soon as the
+injured little fellows had medical care, they were put into
+clean beds. At first the injured wild men were much
+frightened, but when they were handled so tenderly by
+the Doctor and his lovely nurses, they became quite
+contented.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Doctor’s official report to the General gives the
+best idea of the work of the Red Cross after the battle,
+and it is printed here, word for word, from that tiny
+document.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i107.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c019'>
+    <div><span class='large'>TEENIE WEENIE RED CROSS FIELD HOSPITAL</span></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c013'>Commander in Chief,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Report No. 14.</p>
+<p class='c020'>Teenie Weenie Army.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>Sir: I herein give to you a full detailed report of the
+Red Cross work after the battle of Sabo:</p>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c021'>
+    <div><b>Teenie Weenies Injured</b></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c013'>Sailor—Shot in the right breast with arrow, which
+was removed after a hard operation, as the point had
+broken off between the third and fourth ribs. Eleven
+stitches taken in wound. Patient in bad shape but
+will recover.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>Dunce—Shot in hand; slight wound; will be all
+right in few days.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>Gogo—Two small wounds in right leg and left arm.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>Cowboy—Scratch on cheek from spear thrust.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i108.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c021'>
+    <div><b>Wild Men Injured</b></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c013'>No. 1—Serious wound in neck from rifle bullet; removed
+bullet after much work; patient in bad shape.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>No. 2—Bad bayonet wound in side; will recover.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>No. 3—Piece of shell removed from back; nineteen
+stitches taken in wound; will get well.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>No. 4—Painful scalp wound from being hit on head with
+butt of gun; five stitches taken in wound.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>No. 5—Shot in shoulder; not dangerous.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>I wish to bring to your notice the good work of my staff.
+I commend them for their earnest and skillful help in taking
+care of the wounded. The work of bringing in the wounded
+was promptly done by the Policeman and the Clown in a manner
+that calls for the highest praise.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>Tess Bone and Sally Guff, my two excellent nurses, were
+of the greatest service. Their tenderness in handling the injured
+was of the highest order.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>I wish also to bring to your notice the kindness of Peter
+Meadowlark and Bouncing Ben, the jumping mouse. Peter
+Meadowlark did much towards keeping the patients in a good
+frame of mind by his daily songs. Every day he came to the
+hospital and sang for the wounded.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>Bouncing Ben kept the sick laughing for hours by his
+funny handsprings and somersaults. I owe much to these
+two kind-hearted fellows for the good condition of my patients.</p>
+<p class='c022'>Sincerely yours,</p>
+<p class='c018'>Surgeon General,</p>
+<p class='c014'>Teenie Weenie Army.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id016'>
+<img src='images/i109.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch24' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty-Four<br /> <br />LET THERE BE PEACE</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>After the battle the front lines were moved quite a
+distance towards the center of the island, where
+the wild men’s village stood. A strong breastwork of
+sticks and grass was built and a most careful watch was
+kept at all times. Nothing was seen of the wild men
+except shadowy forms that every now and then dodged
+about among the stalks of big grass. They were surely
+in the tall grass, for the savage little fellows could slip
+about in the jungle almost unseen.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>It was quite certain that the General intended to move
+again in a short time, for everything was made ready
+for another battle.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>One morning the Scotchman, who was in the front
+lines, happened to see a wild man crawling along on his
+stomach towards a stick that lay in front of the Teenie
+Weenie breastwork. The tiny soldier raised his gun and
+waited, thinking the wild men were about to charge, but
+instead a blade of grass appeared above the stick and to
+it was tied a white rag.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Jinks!” exclaimed the Scotchman, lowering his gun,
+“the wild men are showing a flag of truce.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Hold your fire, men!” shouted the Cowboy, who
+was in charge of the Teenie Weenie fort at the time.
+“They are sending out a flag of truce.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Presently the wild man crawled out from behind the
+stick and timidly made his way toward the Teenie
+Weenies.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“What do you want?” asked the Cowboy, peering
+over the top of the fort.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Wap gee goo mah be gum,” answered the wild man
+as he approached the Teenie Weenies. Of course none
+of them could understand a word of this.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id017'>
+<img src='images/i111.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Talk English, you goof,” cried the Cowboy. “I
+can’t understand that kind of talk.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The wild man carried a piece of folded birch bark in
+his hand and when he reached the fort he handed it over
+to the Cowboy. It was addressed to the General, and the
+Cowboy at once sent the note to him.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When the note was delivered to the General, he found
+that it was from the Queen of the wild men, written by
+the Poet, and this is what he read:</p>
+<p class='c011'>&nbsp;&nbsp;Commander in Chief,
+Teenie Weenie Army.
+My dear General:</p>
+<p class='c013'>Her Royal Highness, Mooie, Queen of the wild men, sends
+greetings. Her Highness wishes to talk over terms of peace
+with you and suggests that you and your staff meet her at the
+stream which crosses the path halfway between the Sabo village
+and your camp. Her Highness awaits your pleasure and
+asks Your Excellency to set a date for the meeting.</p>
+<p class='c018'>Respectfully yours</p>
+<p class='c014'>RUFUS RHYME.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>P. S.—Although the Lady of Fashion and I have been
+closely guarded since we have been prisoners, we have been
+very well treated and I ask that you take this into consideration
+when you arrange peace terms.</p>
+<p class='c018'>R. R.</p>
+
+<p class='c017'>The General answered the note at once, making
+arrangements to meet the Queen on the following day.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The next day at the appointed time the General, the
+Old Soldier and a guard of eight soldiers marched off to
+the meeting place, where they found the Queen awaiting
+them.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Queen sat on her favorite turtle and she had with
+her several of her warriors and the Poet.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i113.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>As the Teenie Weenies drew near, the Queen and her
+followers raised their left hands above their heads, which
+is the Sabo custom when friends meet. The Queen was
+the first to speak, and the Poet, who had learned the Sabo
+language while he was held prisoner, translated her
+words to the Teenie Weenies as follows:</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“O, great chief of the thunder wagon (the name, “Men
+of the Thunder Wagon,” was given to the Teenie Weenies
+on account of the cannon which the wild men said
+sounded like thunder), we have come here to ask for
+peace. We do not wish to fight; we ask only for the liberty
+of our brothers whom you hold prisoners. Give us
+back our brothers and we will return the Lady of Fashion
+and the Poet to you. We will also give you two hundred
+smoked frog hams for our brothers’ return.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“O queen of beauty and ruler of all the Saboes,” said
+the General when the Poet had finished, “we do not wish
+to fight, and we ask only for the return of our friends. For
+their safe return we will free your brothers. The hams
+you have offered we could not think of taking, for we took
+up arms against you, not for gain, but only for the freedom
+of the Lady of Fashion and the Poet.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Queen was greatly pleased at the General’s words
+and arrangements were made for the exchange of the prisoners.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>That same day all the wild men, except the ones who
+were in the hospital and who were too sick to leave, were
+set free.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i115.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><span class='color_blue'><span class='sc'>The General and the Queen of the Wild Men at the Peace Dance.</span>—<i>Chapter Twenty-five.</i></span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>They were taken, under guard of several soldiers, to
+the stream where the General had met the Queen. The
+Lady of Fashion and the Poet were waiting for them and
+the Teenie Weenie soldiers gave three mighty cheers
+when they saw their friends. The prisoners were exchanged
+and the Lady of Fashion and the Poet were
+taken to the Teenie Weenie camp, where they were
+given a royal welcome.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Lady of Fashion was so happy to be again among
+her friends that she did a very ladylike thing—she cried.
+The nurses cried and several of the men were seen to blow
+their tiny noses and blink their eyes.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Oh, I’m so happy to be safe with you all again,”
+cried the Lady of Fashion as she hugged the General for
+the tenth time. “I don’t know what those nasty wild men
+captured us for, we never could find out, but I will say for
+them that they were very good to us.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, we are mighty glad to have you with us again,”
+said the General. “And it’s through the loyalty of every
+soldier in our army that your rescue has been accomplished.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I know it. I know it,” cried the little lady, and she
+hugged every single man in the army except the Chinaman,
+who was so embarrassed that he ran off and hid in a
+hollow log for nearly an hour.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The two nurses took the Lady of Fashion to their
+tent, where she washed until she was as clean as a drop
+of dew.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>That night the army gathered around a roaring bonfire
+and eagerly listened to the Poet while he told them
+how he and the Lady of Fashion had spent their time
+as prisoners of the wild men. When he had finished, the
+little people sang songs, told stories and gossiped until
+after midnight, when the General ordered everyone to
+bed.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“It’s so nice to sleep in a clean, honest-to-goodness
+bed again,” said the Lady of Fashion when she crawled
+into one of the tiny cots in the nurses’ tent, but she didn’t
+sleep a great deal, for the three little women had so
+much to talk about. They whispered and giggled until
+early morning.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i118.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch25' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty-Five<br /> <br />THE PEACE DANCE</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>“Well, folks,” announced the General the next
+morning as he sat down to breakfast with several
+of his officers, the Lady of Fashion and the Poet, “we
+must make ready for the march home. We have a long
+journey ahead of us and we must get started as soon as
+possible.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I don’t see how we can,” answered the Doctor, who
+was helping himself to a piece of frog ham. “The
+Sailor is in no condition to be moved and, besides, I still
+have a couple of the wild men on my hands, who are
+in such shape I can’t leave them for a few days.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“That’s so! That’s so!” exclaimed the General. “Of
+course we’ll have to stay until our duty is done.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“My patients are all doing well and I don’t see why
+we won’t be able to get away in five or six days,” said
+the Doctor.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The little soldiers were greatly disappointed when
+they heard that the army would not start immediately
+for home, for now that the war was over they were all
+anxious to return. However, they made the best of their
+time by fishing, swimming and playing games.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>One morning a sentinel came to the General’s tent,
+followed by one of the wild men.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“This fellow has a message for you,” said the sentinel
+pointing to the wild man, who held a piece of folded
+birch bark in his hand. “There are about twenty-five
+more of ’em waiting out beyond our lines and they’ve
+each got a big bundle all wrapped up in leaves.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General opened the note which the wild man
+handed him, but when he found it was written in the
+Sabo language he sent for the Poet.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“You’ll have to translate this gibberish for me,” said
+the General when the Poet appeared. “It’s too much
+for me.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Poet carefully read the note and then repeated
+it to the General.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“It’s from the Queen and she is sending you greetings
+and some presents,” said the Poet. “She also invites
+you to the great Dance of Peace and Plenty. This
+is the dance the wild men dance whenever they make
+peace with their enemies. You must go to the dance,
+for that is the way the wild men have of showing that
+they want to be friendly.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“All right,” answered the General; “tell her I’ll come.
+Thank her for the presents and give her my regards.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>A number of soldiers were sent out to bring in the
+presents the Queen had sent and when they were unwrapped
+the little people were surprised to find a number
+of fat frog hams, a quantity of wild rice, a large jar
+of fruit paste made out of wild berries, many nut meats
+and sweet seeds.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We ought to send a present to the Queen in return
+for all this food,” said the General. “What shall we send
+her?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Send her that thimble the Dunce ruined trying to
+make a suit of armor,” answered the Poet, who had heard
+the story of the Dunce’s armor.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Not that old thimble!” exclaimed the General.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Sure,” laughed the Poet. “She will think that it is
+wonderful!”</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i121.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>So the thimble was sent to the Queen, who prized it
+more than anything else she owned.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>On the appointed day the General set off for the
+dance with a number of the Teenie Weenies, and as they
+drew near the village they were met by a body of wild
+men who had been sent out as a guard of honor to escort
+the General into the village. He was led to a spot beneath
+a big bush where the Queen sat cross-legged on a wonderfully
+soft piece of cloth which had been thrown on
+the ground. Over her head hung another cloth which
+was fastened at the four corners to long poles held in the
+hands of four wild men.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>A great many wild men and women stood about an
+open spot under the bush, which had been swept until
+it was as clean as a pin. Many children ran about the
+place, some of them climbing onto the grass houses and
+into the trees. On the edge of the crowd stood several
+small animals, and some birds were perched in the bush
+overhead.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General made a low bow to the Queen and when
+she motioned for him to sit by her side, he sat down on
+the soft cloth. The Queen and the General talked for
+some time through the Poet, who translated for them.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Presently the Queen gave a command to one of her
+warriors and instantly several men, who were sitting on
+the ground in front of the Queen, began to beat on
+drums. The drums were made out of a piece of hollow
+reed. The ends were covered with snake skin and they
+made a very pretty, mellow sound. Another man beat
+on a piece of wood which had been fixed to a split reed,
+while three or four women beat paddles together in
+time with the music.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Instantly a number of voices broke into a loud song
+from behind a house near by and presently the dancers
+came hopping and prancing into the cleared spot
+before the Queen. First came a warrior with a long
+spear and when he danced directly in front of the Queen
+he broke the spear in two over his knee. Next came a
+man with a queer seed pod over his head and in one
+hand he carried a whip with which he struck the warrior
+every now and then. In the other hand he carried
+a dried seed pod which rattled loudly in time with the
+song. The next dancer wore a frog’s head and hopped
+in time with the music, much after the fashion of a frog.
+Several girls followed the frog man, carrying plates of
+smoked frog ham and rice cakes.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“The first man in the dance,” explained the Poet to
+the General, “is the Spirit of War. He broke the spear
+to show you that the war was over and the next man
+rattled the seed pod and struck him with the whip to
+scare him away, which means that the wild men are
+through with war and wish to get rid of the War Spirit.
+The frog man represents the frog meat which the wild
+men eat, and his funny dance means that good times are
+coming, for you see the pretty girls follow with plates
+of rice cakes and meat.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The dancers performed for several minutes and then
+the man with the whip and rattle chased the Spirit of
+War over the hill out of sight, which meant that the
+Spirit of War was gone for good.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>After the dance a great fire was built and when a
+heap of hot ashes had burned, the wild men wrapped
+several frog hams in sassafras leaves and put them into
+the hot bed of ashes to roast. When the hams were cooked
+they were cut into slices and served to the Teenie Weenies
+and the wild men. Wonderfully delicious rice cakes
+were also served and the Teenie Weenies ate until they
+were quite filled. The greedy Dunce ate so much he
+became quite ill and had to be carried back to the Teenie
+Weenie camp, where the Doctor was kept busy most
+of the night putting heated buttons on his aching
+tummy, until the pain was gone.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id012'>
+<img src='images/i124.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch26' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty-Six<br /> <br />HOME</h2>
+</div>
+<div class='lg-container-b c023'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'>Put a bean on to boil, Mr. Cook!</div>
+      <div class='line'>Put a bean on to boil, Mr. Cook!</div>
+      <div class='line in2'>For an army, it must eat</div>
+      <div class='line in2'>And rest its weary feet;</div>
+      <div class='line'>So put on a bean, Mr. Cook!</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c017'>The Teenie Weenie soldiers sang this song as they
+sat about their tiny camp fire one evening shortly
+after the peace dance. They were all happy, for they
+were to start for home in the morning. The Sailor was
+now well enough to stand the long trip and that was all
+that had been holding them back.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“He can stand the trip,” the Doctor said, “if he is carried
+in some way that will not jolt him. He was badly
+wounded and I wouldn’t care to have him ride in one
+of the army wagons, as they are much too rough.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We can make a litter and get two mice to carry it,”
+suggested Tess Bone.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“That’s a good idea,” said the Doctor. “He will rest
+that way in fine shape.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Turk and the Old Soldier agreed to make the
+litter and in a short time they had built such a cozy one
+the Sailor was quite pleased with it.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Crickety!” exclaimed the Dunce when he saw the litter,
+“I wish I was wounded so I could ride in that instead
+of walkin’ all the way home.”</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i126.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>The army wagons were loaded and early in the morning
+the little army began the long journey home. First
+the cannon and then the baggage and wagons had to
+be moved across the river on the raft. It took the little
+people all day to move across the river, for many trips
+had to be made with the clumsy raft. But at the end of
+the day not a single Teenie Weenie was left on Sabo
+Island.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>As Queen Mooie had given the Teenie Weenies so
+many presents of frog hams, rice cakes, delicious seeds
+and many hickory nut meats, the little people were well
+supplied with good food. Every evening after the day’s
+march the happy little army ate their meal gathered
+around a glowing camp fire. They laughed and joked,
+sang songs, told stories and gossiped with the many
+birds and animals of the woods who gathered about the
+camp fire.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Often the Teenie Weenies listened to a strange tale of
+the forest, told by some owl or chipmunk, and quite
+often the birds sang to them.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>One evening a wicked old weasel came prowling
+around the camp. The little folks were quite alarmed
+about it, for the old fellow hung around for a long time.
+They could see his wicked green eyes shining in the
+light from the camp fire and when the General asked
+him what he wanted, he never answered. At last the
+General told several of the soldiers to fire off their rifles.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Shoot in the air over his head and give him a good
+scare,” ordered the General. “I think that will fix him.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>At the first sound of the guns the weasel quickly disappeared
+into the night and nothing more was seen of
+him, although the men kept a mighty close watch for
+several days.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When the army came to the place where they had
+built the bridge, they found the squirrel whom they had
+hired to guard it, on duty.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, here I am,” shouted the squirrel. “And here is
+the bridge just as you left it.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“You have done your duty well,” said the General,
+and he ordered the Cook to pay the squirrel the ten sunflower
+seeds and the hickory nuts which had been promised
+him.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, I always believe in doin’ my duty,” said the
+squirrel. “If I agree to do a thing I always stick to my
+word—I’d rather lose every whisker I’ve got than go
+back on my word.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>A bluejay who was sitting in a bush near by snickered
+and the squirrel gave him a nasty look. The Teenie
+Weenies thought for a minute that there might be
+a quarrel, but the bluejay flew off, so they felt much
+easier.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>After a pleasant talk with the squirrel, the General
+ordered the army to march on and as long as the Teenie
+Weenies were in sight the squirrel waved to them
+from the top of an old stump.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The trip seemed to agree with the Sailor. He grew
+stronger and stronger under the watchful eye of the Doctor
+and the two dainty nurses. He was fed on broth and
+a tiny bit of poached bird’s egg each day, and as the
+army drew near home he was almost strong enough to
+walk.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>One day the Teenie Weenies were surprised to hear
+a bird shout to them from a bush over their heads and
+when they looked up they saw it was Tilly Titter, the
+English Sparrow—an old and trusted friend.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Of course the General ordered a halt, while the men
+gathered around the sparrow and asked many questions.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“How are the twins?” asked Mr. Lover.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Fine! Just fine!” cried the bird. “I was over to the
+village yesterday and they were playin’ foot ball with
+a gooseberry. They are as husky as a caterpillar in a
+mulberry bush. Your wife is as fat as butter; I’ll bet she
+has gained half an ounce since you left her.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>After the Teenie Weenies had learned all the news
+from home the General gave a message to Tilly and
+asked her to deliver it to the Teenie Weenie village.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“You can just bet your last fish worm I’ll carry that
+message as quick as I can,” said the bird. “Everyone in
+the village will be tickled to death to hear that you are
+so near home. Grandpa will be so ’appy ’e’ll shout
+’imself ’oarse.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Spreading her wings, Tilly Titter flew into the air and
+quickly disappeared in the direction of the Teenie Weenie
+village.</p>
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch27' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty-seven<br /> <br />THE GRAND REVIEW</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>Tilly Titter flew as she never flew
+before and in a short time she
+landed on the ground beside the shoe
+house, her feathers all ruffled up with
+excitement.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ve got news,” she shouted, as the
+little women gathered about her. “I’ve
+just come from the General
+and the army will be home
+in about three days.”</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i130.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Is my husband well?”
+shouted Mrs. Lover.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“He’s as healthy as a
+dandelion and as pink as a rose bud,” answered Tilly.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“How’s the Poet and the Lady of Fashion?” asked
+Grandpa.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well and ’appy,” cried Tilly. “As I was a sayin’,
+the army will be ’ome in about three days. The General
+said to tell you that they would arrive on Friday afternoon
+if everthing goes well. He says for you to have a
+good supper ready for the boys and to have plenty, for
+they will be as hungry as young robins.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Is the Sailor getting along nicely?” asked Miss Guff.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Fine as a fiddle! Fine as a fiddle!” answered the
+sparrow. “Wants to walk, ’e’s feelin’ so well, but the Doctor
+makes ’im stay in the litter and ride.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, we have got to get busy and do somethin’ for
+the boys,” cried Grandpa. “We’ve got to give ’em a big
+feed and decorate the place with flags and show ’em
+we’re glad to see ’em.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We’ll get up a grand supper for them,” cried Mrs.
+Lover, “and we’ll have a dance afterwards.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ll bring over a big chunk of cheese,” cried the
+mouse that had joined the crowd.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ll get some fat worms for the supper,” cried Tilly,
+and instantly she blushed a deep brown. “Oh, I forget
+you don’t eat worms. Well, I’ll get some sunflower seeds.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ll donate a few nuts,” said Nick, the squirrel, who
+had been hoping for a chance to speak.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Oh, I forgot to say that the General said ’e would
+come in ahead of the army so ’e could review them as
+they marched into the village,” cried Tilly.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“He’s going to review the troops, did you say?” asked
+Grandpa, who was hard of hearing.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Yes!” shouted Tilly, right into the old gentleman’s
+ear. “The General is goin’ to review the army.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, we got to get a reviewing stand ready for him,”
+cried Grandpa.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ll help,” shouted the mouse, “and I’ll get some mice
+to help, too.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“All right, get ’em!” cried Grandpa. “The sooner we
+get to work the better it will be.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>In a short time the Teenie Weenies were as busy as
+bees in a clover field. The little women set to work cooking
+and baking. They made cakes and cookies by the
+thimble full. They made ginger cookies, nut cookies,
+chocolate cake, fruit cake and half an English walnut full
+of doughnuts, besides all sorts of other good things.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Grandpa put eight mice, a chipmunk and half a dozen
+bugs to work getting the place ready for the returning
+soldiers. They cleaned up the rubbish under the rose-bush,
+they moved all the desks out of the schoolhouse,
+where the dinner and dance were to be held, and they
+made a reviewing stand out of the top of a candy box.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Nick, the squirrel, worked hard opening nuts. He
+gnawed so many his teeth became sore, but he never complained,
+for he was a very patriotic squirrel and most fond
+of the Teenie Weenies.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i133.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>The little folks decorated the village with Teenie
+Weenie flags and bunting and when the time arrived for
+the army to march home the village was crowded with
+all sorts of visitors. Bugs, mice, squirrels, birds, chipmunks,
+and even a few chickens and ducks, crowded
+under the rose-bush.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General rode in ahead of the army and took his
+place on the reviewing stand amid the wildest shouting
+and waving of flags, but when the troops came marching
+into view there was such a squealing of squirrels and
+mice and squawking of chickens, ducks and birds, one
+could hardly hear oneself think. Grandpa shouted so
+hard that he had one of his choking fits, and a mouse
+had to pound him on the back until he could get his
+breath.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When the review was over there was much hugging
+and kissing and some crying, for most of the little women
+shed a few tears of happiness, but that’s a strange way
+women folks have of showing they are happy. One old
+hen cried so hard she had to be led away. A duck insisted
+on kissing the Dunce and a mouse hugged Paddy Pinn
+so hard it nearly broke his arm.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>After the little soldiers had visited for a time they were
+called into the old derby hat for supper and such a supper
+as they had! There was roasted bird’s egg, frog ham,
+escalloped hickory nut, walnut au gratin, creamed hearts
+of sunflower seed, water cress and wild cherry salad, and
+cakes and cookies and sliced grape and ice cream.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When the little soldiers had eaten until they could not
+hold another morsel, the General arose from his seat at
+the head of the big table and made a speech.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Friends and men of the Teenie Weenie army,” he
+began, “I want to thank you for your loyal and hearty
+service. You have gone through hardships and you have
+risked your lives in battle without complaint. You have
+done this to aid those in trouble and nothing greater can
+be said of your deeds than that they were done willingly.
+Men, I am proud to have been your leader.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Three cheers for the army!” shouted a mouse who
+had been helping to wait on table, and the cheers were
+given with a will.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Next the Lady of Fashion made a little speech. She
+very prettily thanked the General and the army for having
+rescued the Poet and herself from the wild men and
+as she sat down there were tears in her pretty eyes. The
+Poet spoke and Grandpa made a speech about the great
+war in forty-two, but few heard what the old gentleman
+said, for they were anxious to talk to one another about
+the great events of the rescue of their friends.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Friends!” shouted Paddy Pinn, when Grandpa had
+sat down, “I think the Dunce ought to explain to the rest
+of us just why that old duck was so anxious to kiss him.”
+Every one yelled so loudly for the Dunce that he was
+forced to stand up, but he was so embarrassed he couldn’t
+speak a word and the Teenie Weenies laughed so hard
+they cried.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When the tables had been cleared away the orchestra
+started playing and in a few minutes the little folks were
+swinging around to the music of “The Lady of Fashion
+Waltz.” They danced until nearly morning—in fact it
+was broad daylight when the tired little soldiers crawled
+into their tiny beds, every one of them mighty thankful
+that they were safely home again.</p>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c024'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'>“The war is over, our duty is done;</div>
+      <div class='line in1'>Hang up the pistol, the sword and the gun.”</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c025'>Rufus Rhyme,</p>
+<p class='c026'><i>Teenie Weenie Poet</i>.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id017'>
+<img src='images/i136.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c000' />
+</div>
+<p class='c004'>&nbsp;</p>
+<div class='tnbox'>
+
+ <ul class='ul_1 c005'>
+    <li>Transcriber’s Notes:
+      <ul  class='ul_2'>
+        <li>Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
+        </li>
+        <li>Typographical errors were silently corrected.
+        </li>
+        <li>Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant
+        form was found in this book.
+        </li>
+      </ul>
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+
+</div>
+<p class='c004'>&nbsp;</p>
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+  “FRIENDS,” SAID THE GENERAL, ADDRESSING THE CROWD, “I HAVE TERRIBLE
+    NEWS!”—_Chapter One_.
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+------------------------------------------------------------------------
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+
+
+
+
+                                  The
+
+                             TEENIE WEENIES
+
+                            IN THE WILDWOOD
+
+
+                                   BY
+                            WILLIAM DONAHEY
+
+[Illustration]
+
+                             Illustrated by
+                               THE AUTHOR
+
+
+
+
+                          The Reilly & Lee Co.
+                                Chicago
+
+
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
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+[Illustration:
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+  THE REILLY & LEE CO.
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+newspaper the author-artist and the publishers extend thanks for
+courtesies in connection with the publication of this book.
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                            LIST OF CHAPTERS
+
+
+               Chapter                                  Page
+
+                  1 Alarming News                       7
+
+                  2 The Captured Teenie Weenies        11
+
+                  3 Campaign Preparations              16
+
+                  4 A Warning in Camp                  20
+
+                  5 The Queen of the Wild Men          24
+
+                  6 The Storm                          26
+
+                  7 A Suspension Bridge                29
+
+                  8 A Badly Frightened Army            33
+
+                  9 The Captives Attend a Dance        36
+
+                 10 Help from a Ground Robin           39
+
+                 11 The Poet Learns Sabo               44
+
+                 12 Gogo’s Brave Act                   48
+
+                 13 The Attack                         52
+
+                 14 On the Wild Men’s Island           56
+
+                 15 A Council of War                   59
+
+                 16 Wild Men Bottled Up                63
+
+                 17 The Dunce in Disgrace              66
+
+                 18 Consulting an Engineer             70
+
+                 19 The Old Soldier’s War Machine      74
+
+                 20 The Dunce Looks for Excitement     79
+
+                 21 The Scouts Have a Narrow           83
+                    Escape
+
+                 22 The Battle                         89
+
+                 23 The Red Cross                      92
+
+                 24 Let There Be Peace                 96
+
+                 25 The Peace Dance                   103
+
+                 26 Home                              109
+
+                 27 The Grand Review                  114
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+                           The Teenie Weenies
+                            In the Wildwood
+
+
+
+
+                              Chapter One
+
+                             ALARMING NEWS
+
+
+The Teenie Weenies had known for some time that a tribe of tiny wild men
+lived in a big swamp many teenie weenie miles from the shoe house. Field
+mice and birds had carried the news of these strange little people to
+the Teenie Weenies. The wild men lived in the heart of a big forest and
+they spoke a language quite different from the Teenie Weenies.
+
+“These wild men are very cruel,” a friendly bird told the Teenie
+Weenies. “They are called Saboes, or frog eaters, and they would just as
+soon destroy a person as look at him.”
+
+“Well, they will never hurt us,” the General said, “for we shall leave
+them alone and, besides, they live a great distance from the shoe
+house.”
+
+“Well, you’d better watch out for them; there are a great many of these
+wild men and you can never tell when they might come along,” said the
+bird, who was a mourning dove and always looked on the dark side of
+things.
+
+The Teenie Weenies didn’t worry about the wild men much, for they lived
+so far away and, besides, there was the Teenie Weenie army ever ready to
+protect them against an enemy. But the little people soon had cause for
+worry, for a dreadful thing happened.
+
+One afternoon a snail raced slowly up to the shoe house with alarming
+news—the Lady of Fashion and the Poet had been captured by the wild men!
+
+“Gracious!” gasped the General. “How did you find this out?”
+
+“I-I-I-I saw them captured,” answered the snail. “The wild men took them
+and put them in their boat and paddled down the creek. There must have
+been five or six of the wild men. They all had bows and arrows and
+spears too, and they looked terribly fierce.”
+
+“Ring the bell,” cried the General. “We’ll have a great council and see
+what can be done.”
+
+Several of the Teenie Weenies ran to the old derby hat which served the
+little people as a school house and armory, and began furiously to ring
+the tiny bell. All the birds and animals who lived near the little
+village knew that when the bell rang long and loud it was a signal for
+them to come. In a few minutes, two birds flew under the rose bush where
+the village stood and one by one, several mice, a squirrel and a couple
+of intelligent-looking bugs appeared.
+
+“Friends,” said the General, addressing the assembled crowd, “I have
+terrible news! The Lady of Fashion and the Poet have been captured by
+the wild men. This—this snail here has just brought the report.”
+
+The Teenie Weenies and their friends were much shocked by the news,
+while the snail strutted about, feeling quite important at being the
+bearer of such an exciting message.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“When did this happen?” asked the mouse with a squeaky voice.
+
+“About five or six hours ago,” answered the snail. “I was walkin’ near
+the creek when—”
+
+“Five or six hours ago!” shouted the General, turning on the snail. “For
+the land’s sake, why didn’t you come immediately?”
+
+“I-I-I did,” answered the snail, with an injured expression. “I came
+just as fast as I could crawl.”
+
+“Of course you did,” said the General kindly. “I beg your pardon. I
+forgot for the moment that you do not move as fast as most of us.” The
+snail, who had rather a sensitive nature, was quite hurt by the
+General’s words and it instantly shrank back into its shell.
+
+After some talk it was decided to scatter up and down the creek in
+search of the lost Teenie Weenies. The birds flew up and down the creek
+until it was quite too dark for them to see, while the little people and
+the rest of their friends hunted all through the night without a sign of
+the Lady of Fashion and the Poet.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                              Chapter Two
+
+                      THE CAPTURED TEENIE WEENIES
+
+
+While the Teenie Weenies were searching along the creek for the Lady of
+Fashion and the Poet, those two little people were being rapidly paddled
+down the stream and away from their friends.
+
+The Lady of Fashion and the Poet had gone to the bank of the creek for a
+picnic. They had eaten their lunch and the Lady of Fashion suggested
+that they walk down the stream in search of wild flowers. They had only
+gone a little ways when the wild men, who had been watching them,
+suddenly leaped upon them from behind a big bush. In a few seconds the
+wild little fellows had carried their tiny prisoners to their canoe,
+after having securely bound their hands behind them. Lifting the Teenie
+Weenies into the boat the wild men jumped in after them and began to
+paddle down the creek.
+
+“This is a pretty bag of seeds,” moaned the Poet as the boat shot
+rapidly down the stream. “It’s hard to tell what will become of us now.”
+
+“If—if we could just get word to the General,” whispered the Lady of
+Fashion, “he’d bring the army and come after these—these wild men and
+rescue us.”
+
+“There’s no chance of writing a note and dropping it somewhere, with our
+hands tied behind us.”
+
+“I’ll tell you what we can do,” whispered the Lady of Fashion. “If we
+should see a bird we can call to it and ask it to tell the General that
+we have been captured.”
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But the two Teenie Weenies never came close enough to a bird all that
+day, for the wild men paddled their canoe near the shore of the creek
+under the cover of the overhanging ferns and grass.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  THE QUEEN OF THE WILD MEN, SITTING ON THE BACK OF HER TURTLE.—_Chapter
+    Five._
+]
+
+As the canoe floated along down the stream the Lady of Fashion and the
+Poet spent their time studying the strange little wild men, or Saboes,
+as they were called. They were sturdily built little chaps, but a trifle
+smaller than the Teenie Weenies. They had dark brown skins, bushy hair,
+and around their fierce-looking eyes were painted circles of white. One
+or two of the wild men wore shirts with skirts almost to their knees,
+but the most of them were dressed only in trousers which were made from
+the skins of young frogs. Their spears were made of long sticks with a
+sharp fish bone tied to the end, and several of them carried bows and
+arrows, while their war clubs were made by fastening sharp blackberry
+thorns to a short handle. Many of the little wild men wore strings of
+beautifully carved raspberry beads about their necks and arms, which the
+little fellows called “gum gum,” the Sabo name for money.
+
+The canoe, which the little men paddled very skillfully, was made from a
+huge cucumber, and on the end of the boat was painted a queer face. This
+face was supposed to look like a cat and was meant to frighten the
+Saboes’ enemies.
+
+When evening came on and it began to grow dark, the wild men stopped on
+a sandy beach, where they made the two Teenie Weenies understand by
+motions that they would rest a while.
+
+Several of the Saboes bent over the stem of a tall dandelion, while one
+of the little men gathered an armful of the soft, fluffy down, which he
+put on the ground and covered with dry grass and sticks. He then took
+two sticks and rubbed them together so hard that they grew very hot and
+soon a spark fell into the dandelion down, which blazed up and quickly
+set fire to the grass and sticks.
+
+Presently two of the wild men, who had disappeared in the direction of
+the creek, returned and one of them carried the leg of a frog over his
+shoulder. The little men cut the leg into great chunks almost as big as
+a pea and these were soon roasting over the fire.
+
+The Lady of Fashion and the Poet sat on a log beside the fire and
+although the Lady of Fashion tried hard to keep from crying, every now
+and then a tear would trickle down her tiny cheek.
+
+“Don’t worry,” said the Poet. “The General will find some way to come to
+our rescue. He won’t let any harm come to us.”
+
+“I-I-I s-s-s-suppose so,” sobbed the little lady. “But I-I-I haven’t a
+clean handkerchief and—and—and my hair is a sight!”
+
+In spite of the fact that the Teenie Weenies were terribly worried, the
+roasting meat smelled wonderfully good and when it was done the
+prisoners’ hands were untied and they were each given a piece. Both ate
+a good portion and agreed that it was delicious. They wiped their
+fingers on a leaf and then the wild men tied their hands again and made
+them understand that they were to sleep.
+
+All night long the wild men kept up a bright fire. They took turns
+sleeping and watching their prisoners, but the two Teenie Weenies needed
+very little watching, for they were quite tired out with the day’s
+experience and slept most of the night.
+
+At the very first break of day the wild men were awake and after a
+hurried breakfast of frog ham and a blackberry which one of the men
+found, they once more pushed out in the canoe and paddled down the
+stream.
+
+Two days later they landed on the island where the wild men lived. When
+the two Teenie Weenies stepped out of the canoe a great number of the
+wild little people came running toward them. The women and children
+stared at them in great astonishment, while the men danced and swung
+their clubs and spears in a most terrible way.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                             Chapter Three
+
+                         CAMPAIGN PREPARATIONS
+
+
+All night long the Teenie Weenies searched without success for the
+captured Lady of Fashion and the Poet. The Indian found the spot where
+they had been surprised and taken. Their tiny footprints and the tracks
+of the wild men, as well as the spot where the canoe had been pushed
+into the water, showed plainly in the moist sand.
+
+“Him wild man, him get good start,” grunted the Indian after he had
+studied the footprints for some time. “We no catch ’um before him get
+home.”
+
+“I’m afraid not,” answered the General. “If that slow-poke snail had
+been a little faster we might have caught them.”
+
+“Ugh!” was all the Indian said.
+
+When all the Teenie Weenies had returned to the little village after the
+search, the General called a meeting.
+
+“Men,” he began, “we have got to do something and do it quickly!”
+
+“Call out the army, why don’t you?” shouted an excited mouse that had
+joined the crowd.
+
+“I believe we’ll have to,” answered the General. “I hate to use the
+army, but I don’t see what else we can do. These wild men are very
+savage and I have been told that there are many of them. If we go after
+the Lady of Fashion and the Poet, we are going on a hard and dangerous
+mission. We will have many long miles to march and there—there may be
+fighting. Now, men, I will put it to a vote. All those in favor of
+sending the army after the wild men in order to free our friends will
+say ‘yes.’”
+
+“Yes!” shouted every single Teenie Weenie, so loudly that they made the
+leaves tremble on the old rose bush overhead.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The little people started at once to prepare for the trip into the
+forest, for it was there that the wild men lived. It takes a great deal
+of work to outfit an army and the little men were soon buzzing about as
+busy as bees.
+
+Two squirrels offered their services, but the General was forced to
+refuse them, for they were such big eaters that the army could not
+afford to feed them.
+
+Several mice were hired to pull the wagons and the cannons and also for
+the officers to ride.
+
+A great quantity of food and tools had to be brought out and loaded into
+the wagons. It took seven hundred grains of wheat, six hundred grains of
+corn, thirty raisins, six dried prunes, fifty-eight beans, to say
+nothing of cocoa, salt, pepper, baking powder, picks, shovels, pulleys,
+ropes, tents, a great quantity of cheese for the mice-horses and many
+other things.
+
+It was quite late that night before the wagons were loaded and most of
+the little soldiers slept in their uniforms, for the army was to start
+into the forest soon after daylight.
+
+The army was to be made up of a division of ten infantrymen, two
+artillerymen, two mounted scouts, two cooks, a doctor and two nurses.
+
+The General was in command, with the Old Soldier as chief of staff,
+while Paddy Pinn had command of the artillery.
+
+When the little soldiers had said their last good-byes, the men stepped
+into line and at the gruff command of the General they swung away
+towards the great forest in which the wild men lived. The Indian and the
+Cowboy, mounted on mice, rode ahead of the army and picked out the best
+and easiest road for the soldiers, while the Turk, who was chosen as the
+aviator, flew above the army on the back of a bird, ever watchful for
+enemies.
+
+At noon the army halted for lunch beneath the shade of a lilac bush,
+where each man eagerly devoured the grain of baked wheat which had been
+given to each soldier that morning as his ration.
+
+After they had rested a bit, and when they had filled their tiny
+canteens with water from an old tin can, the command was given to “fall
+in.” Once more the army took up the march.
+
+The army had a hard time that afternoon, for the road it traveled was
+very rough. The little soldiers had to stop every now and then to chop
+weeds and dandelions from the road so the wagons and cannon could pass.
+Late in the afternoon the Turk told the General he had sighted an
+excellent place for a camp, and all the tired little chaps were made
+very happy when the order was given to make camp for the night.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                              Chapter Four
+
+                           A WARNING IN CAMP
+
+
+The first day’s march was very hard on the soldiers, for the sun was hot
+and the little fellows were not used to such long tramps. When the order
+came for the army to break ranks and make camp ready for the night, the
+soldiers worked with a will unloading the wagons and putting up the
+tents. The kitchen tent was put up first so the Cook and the Chinaman
+would lose no time in getting dinner ready for the hungry army.
+
+The mice that pulled the army wagons were given a good feed of cheese
+and they were quartered in a hollow tree for the night. The airplane ate
+ten grains of bird seed and hopped onto the limb of the bush under which
+the tiny camp lay.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+When the camp had been put in order for the night, mess call was sounded
+and the soldiers formed in line with their tin plates. The Cook had
+prepared two boiled beans and a thimbleful of corn soup for the army.
+Each man was given a plate of soup, a big spoonful of bean and a large
+piece of bread.
+
+After dinner the little soldiers gathered on the bank of a puddle of
+water, where they bathed their aching feet, while others took off their
+uniforms and enjoyed a good swim. The foolish Dunce dived head first
+into the pool without first testing the water to see how deep it was and
+he nearly broke his silly neck, for the hole was only three Teenie
+Weenie feet (a little over an inch and a half) deep.
+
+“Believe me!” exclaimed the Dunce after he was pulled out of the water
+and sat on the bank rubbing a big bump on his head, “I’m through diving.
+I wouldn’t dive into a teacup full of water even if I could see the
+bottom.”
+
+The General decided to let the army rest for a day, as the soldiers all
+complained of sore feet and, besides, one of the horses was bothered
+with a lame leg, which had been hurt in a mouse trap a few days before.
+The men were given a little light rifle practice, while Paddy Pinn tried
+out the cannon at long range shooting, bringing down a dandelion in
+three shots at the remarkable range of four hundred and twenty Teenie
+Weenie feet (17 feet in our measurement).
+
+The noise of the cannon attracted the attention of many birds,
+squirrels, bugs and field mice, who gathered around the edge of the camp
+with wide-open eyes.
+
+“What’s the trouble?” asked a bright-eyed chipmunk. “Is there a war or
+somethin’?”
+
+“No,” answered the General kindly. “We are on our way to rescue a couple
+of Teenie Weenies who have been stolen by the wild men who live in the
+heart of the big woods.”
+
+“Well, you’d better go back,” warned the Chipmunk. “Those wild men are a
+bad lot and they are as thick as bees in clover time.”
+
+“We are not afraid,” answered the General. “We will keep on until we
+have rescued our friends.”
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“All right! All right!” said the Chipmunk solemnly. “I wouldn’t give a
+wormy chestnut for your lives, but that’s your choosing, not mine. Let
+me tell you one thing—don’t forget that I warned you.”
+
+“Thank you just the same for your advice,” said the General, “but we
+must go on.”
+
+“All right!” muttered the Chipmunk. “But remember I warned you.” And
+shaking his head wisely he scampered off into the thick weeds.
+
+The little soldiers rolled themselves up in their tiny blankets almost
+immediately after supper and almost before the sun had disappeared over
+the western hills they were sound asleep, for they were to be up and
+well on the march before daylight again would appear.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                              Chapter Five
+
+                       THE QUEEN OF THE WILD MEN
+
+
+Although the wild men who had captured the Lady of Fashion and the Poet
+were good to them, the two Teenie Weenies nevertheless were much alarmed
+as to what might happen, for the wild men kept their captives’ hands
+securely tied, and they watched them closely at all times.
+
+When the wild men brought the two Teenie Weenies to the island where the
+savages lived, the captives were the center of much interest.
+
+The Sabo men and women came swarming down to the water’s edge from all
+directions. They shouted and jabbered in a language the Lady of Fashion
+and the Poet had never before heard. Some came gliding out of the tall
+grass, while others peered from behind bushes and pebbles, quite as
+though they were a little afraid of the two helpless Teenie Weenies.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The women were curious little people. They were dressed in short dresses
+which came down to their knees and the cloth was woven out of
+thistledown and was wonderfully soft. The women dressed their hair in a
+strange manner. The Lady of Fashion could hardly keep from laughing at
+them, for it was coiled up to a point high in the air, shaped much like
+an ice cream cone. Most of the men were dressed in frogskin trousers,
+while the children wore bits of cloth about their waists.
+
+The men and women gathered around and carefully examined the clothes of
+the two Teenie Weenies, especially the Poet’s glasses, which were
+considered very wonderful by the wild little people.
+
+After a time the Lady of Fashion and the Poet were led along a path
+toward the center of the island, followed by a great crowd of Saboes.
+Presently one of the wild men who was walking ahead suddenly dropped to
+his knees and kissed the ground. Looking up, the two Teenie Weenies saw
+a very big turtle with a very short, fat woman sitting on its back. A
+man who walked beside the turtle with a hook in his hand, gave the
+turtle a sharp blow on the nose and the big fellow pulled his head into
+his shell and stopped.
+
+“Well!” exclaimed the Lady of Fashion. “I wonder who this fine lady can
+be.”
+
+“Why, why, this must be a sort of queen,” answered the Poet. “Maybe she
+is the queen of the wild men.”
+
+The Poet had guessed correctly. The fat lady on the turtle was no other
+than Her Royal Highness, Queen Mooie, ruler of the wild men.
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                              Chapter Six
+
+                               THE STORM
+
+
+Before the sun had time to peep over the eastern hills the third
+morning, the little army was on the march. All day the soldiers tramped
+along, stopping every now and then to rest a few minutes beneath the
+shade of a friendly dandelion or burdock. All along the line of march
+many bugs, ants and birds gathered by the roadside to cheer the brave
+little army as it trudged by.
+
+“General,” said the Turk, as he slid off the back of the airplane, “it
+looks to me as though we were going to have a storm and I would suggest
+that you lose no time in finding a dry place to house the army.”
+
+“All right,” answered the General, “I’ll order the Indian to ride ahead
+and select a place to camp.”
+
+Even as the General spoke, the little soldiers heard the distant rumble
+of thunder, and the Indian, putting spurs to his mouse, quickly bounded
+away in search of a camp. Presently he returned with the good news that
+he had found a fine place to weather the storm.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A hollow log had been selected for the camp and the little men soon
+pulled the cannon and army wagons into the dark hole. In a short time
+the storm broke with great fury and it was a mighty good thing that the
+little army was protected by the hollow log, for the burdock leaves
+under which the Teenie Weenies always sought shelter from the rain would
+have been a poor place in such a big storm. The poor mice who pulled the
+army wagons trembled in terror at the loud peals of thunder. The Dunce
+shook so much with fright he almost loosened the buttons of his uniform.
+
+The storm passed quickly and the General ordered the army to be on its
+way, but the marching was hard and the men made slow progress, for the
+ground was muddy. The army marched around most of the mud holes, but one
+was too long and they were forced to wade through the thick mud. Most of
+the soldiers got over safely, but one of the wagons stuck in the mud and
+to make things worse, one of the back wheels was broken in trying to
+pull it out.
+
+“This is a pretty pickle!” growled the Old Soldier, sliding off his
+mouse at the edge of the puddle. “We’ll have to work fast to get this
+wagon out before dark.”
+
+“We might just as well unload the wagon, for we will never be able to
+pull it out while it’s loaded,” said the General.
+
+As the mud was quite deep, several of the soldiers were ordered to put
+on bathing suits and carry the baggage to solid ground. After much hard
+work the wagon was finally pulled out of the mud, although it took half
+the army and six of the mice to do it. As it was quite late in the
+afternoon, the army went into camp, while the Turk and the Old Soldier
+set to work to mend the broken wheel.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  THE TEENIE WEENIE CAPTIVES VIEW THE FIRE-DANCE OF THE
+  WILD MEN.—_Chapter Nine._
+]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                             Chapter Seven
+
+                          A SUSPENSION BRIDGE
+
+
+The General fumed and fussed over the delay caused by the broken wheel.
+
+“It’s just one thing after another,” he grumbled. “If it isn’t one thing
+it’s something else.”
+
+“Well, General, it won’t do a bit of good to worry,” said Tess Bone, one
+of the Red Cross Nurses. “We’ll have to do the best we can and that’s
+all anybody can do—even a Teenie Weenie can’t do more.”
+
+“Of course, of course,” answered the General, as he paced up and down
+before his tiny tent. “I know it doesn’t do a bit of good to worry, but
+we must hurry if we ever expect to rescue the Lady of Fashion and the
+Poet.”
+
+The anxious General had the army up before daylight the next morning.
+They ate a hurried breakfast and were well on the way before the sun
+came up. In fact, the Dunce marched nearly an hour before he was fully
+awake.
+
+The big rain of the day before had left many puddles along the way and
+the little army often had to splash through them.
+
+With the help of the scouts, the army was able to find the best roads,
+for the Indian and the Cowboy, mounted on mice, rode ahead and picked
+out the best path. The Turk was of much help, too, in picking out the
+best roads, for he was able to see a great distance from the back of his
+bird airplane.
+
+“General,” said the Cowboy one afternoon as he rode up to the commander
+of the little army, “I believe there’s more trouble ahead of us.”
+
+“What!” shouted the General. “Great guns, now what’s the trouble?”
+
+“Well, sir, there’s a stream of water and I’m afraid we’ll be forced to
+march a long way out of our road before we can find a place shallow
+enough to cross. I talked to a field mouse who seemed to be familiar
+with the country, and he said there was no place where the stream could
+be crossed for many miles in each direction.”
+
+“I hope, sir, you were careful not to say where you were going,” said
+the General. “We are now nearing the land of our enemies and we are
+liable to meet with a spy at almost any time.”
+
+“I was mighty careful, sir, and told him nothing that might be used
+against us,” answered the Cowboy.
+
+The General ordered the Turk to fly up and down the stream on a scouting
+trip while the army stopped for lunch. Late in the afternoon the Turk
+reported to the General that they would have to take a two days’ march
+out of their road to a place where the stream could be crossed. The army
+pushed on and shortly after dark stopped near the stream, where camp was
+made for the night.
+
+The next morning the Doctor, the Old Soldier, Paddy Pinn and the General
+gathered on the banks of the raging stream to see what plan could be
+made for crossing the water.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The banks were very steep and the water was quite too swift to ford,
+although the stream was only two feet wide (in our measurement). It was
+finally determined that there was nothing to do but build a bridge.
+
+“We can throw a sort of suspension bridge across the stream,” said the
+Old Soldier, who was quite an engineer. “It will take us about a day and
+a half to do the work, but we will save time, for it would take fully
+two or three days to march to a place where we could cross without a
+bridge.”
+
+The war council thought the Old Soldier’s idea a good one and the
+General ordered the men to start work at once. Pulleys and ropes were
+brought out of the army wagons and some big logs for supports were cut
+from a bush near by. Several cattails, which grew near the stream, were
+sawed up into logs for the floor of the bridge. The bird airplane
+carried the workmen and ropes to the other side of the stream, where
+work was soon started on a bridge fifty-two Teenie Weenie feet long.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                             Chapter Eight
+
+                        A BADLY FRIGHTENED ARMY
+
+
+It took a lot of hard work to build the big bridge. Every single Teenie
+Weenie worked with might and main. Even the mice who pulled the wagons
+and cannon, helped the work along by dragging the heavy logs up to the
+place where the bridge was being built.
+
+The little army was a full day and a half building the bridge and when
+the task was finished the wagons were loaded, the mice hitched to them,
+and led by the General, the army marched safely across the bridge.
+
+A big squirrel who lived in a tree near by was hired to watch the
+bridge.
+
+“We may want to get across this stream in a hurry,” the General told the
+squirrel. “If the wild men should push us back to this stream, and the
+bridge is destroyed, we certainly will be in a pretty pickle.”
+
+“I’ll guard it with my life,” answered the squirrel, who had been
+promised ten sunflower seeds and four hickory nuts for his work.
+
+The army once more took up the march and presently they drew nearer and
+nearer the forest. Great bushes overhung the path along which the
+soldiers marched. Tall, bright-colored toadstools grew by the wayside
+and everything was dark and mysterious.
+
+At noon the army was halted for lunch. The little soldiers sat on the
+soft moss under a big fern and each man ate the grain of boiled rice and
+bit of dried raisin which he had tucked into his tiny haversack that
+morning.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+When the men had eaten, the General ordered them to fall into line and
+stepping in front of them he said: “Men, I have been informed by our
+aviator and by our scouts that we are rapidly drawing near the land of
+the wild men, so from now on straggling will not be permitted. Soldiers
+wandering away from the army run the chance of being captured and we
+will soon have need of all our brave men.”
+
+The General’s talk impressed the little soldiers, and the Dunce and
+Gogo, who often wandered away from the line of march, were very much “on
+the job” all afternoon.
+
+As the army marched beneath a bush, late in the day, it suddenly came
+face to face with a small garter snake that lay near a big stone.
+
+“O-O-O-O-O-oh, j-j-j-imminie C-c-c-c-christmas!” screamed the Dunce.
+
+The mouse on which the General rode gave one frightened look at the
+snake and quickly ran up the bush, dumping the dignified General off on
+his Teenie Weenie head. The rest of the army fled in all directions, in
+spite of the Old Soldier, who tried with all his might to stop the
+frightened soldiers. The snake was almost as badly scared as the army
+and it wriggled into a hole near by with remarkable speed.
+
+“Well, this is a fine army, I must say!” growled the General when the
+Old Soldier had finally got the soldiers back in line. “If you men run
+at the sight of a little snake, what will you do when you face real wild
+men?”
+
+“Pardon me, sir,” said Gogo, saluting the General. “We-all don’t mind
+fightin’ the wild men, but—we-all done object to bein’ et.”
+
+“Forward, march!” shouted the General, and the little army moved on
+towards the wild men’s land.
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                              Chapter Nine
+
+                      THE CAPTIVES ATTEND A DANCE
+
+
+While the Teenie Weenie soldiers were gallantly marching to the rescue
+of their little friends, the Lady of Fashion and the Poet were being
+kept prisoners in one of the funny little houses of the wild men.
+
+Queen Mooie, ruler of the Saboes, was a very fat little lady, and like
+all fat people, big or little, she was very good-natured. When the Lady
+of Fashion and the Poet were brought before her, she was much interested
+in them and she made a long speech to the two Teenie Weenies in her
+strange language, but not one word could the little people understand.
+
+The house in which the Lady of Fashion and the Poet were kept was built
+up on posts about six Teenie Weenie feet (three inches in our
+measurement) from the ground. The houses were built up high as
+protection from the dampness, for the Saboes lived on a little island in
+the heart of a big swamp, and it also protected the little people from
+bugs. The floor of the house was made of sticks and the roof and sides
+were covered with a peculiar swamp grass. A flat stone about the size of
+a half dollar was placed on the floor, on which the wild men built a
+tiny fire to keep themselves warm in winter, and a small hole in the
+roof provided a chimney for the smoke.
+
+Twice a day the wild men brought the two Teenie Weenies delicious pieces
+of smoked frog ham, with many tiny rice cakes, and every other day the
+two prisoners were given a blackberry.
+
+One night shortly after the Lady of Fashion and the Poet had been
+brought to the wild men’s village, the two Teenie Weenies heard the
+beating of a drum. For what seemed hours the little prisoners listened
+to the tumtum, tumtum, tumtum, of the drum. There was no use asking the
+wild man who guarded them just outside their door, for he couldn’t
+understand them, so there was nothing to do but listen to the tumtum,
+tumtum, tumtum, and wonder what it was all about.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Presently one of the wild men climbed up the ladder to their house and
+motioned the two Teenie Weenies to follow him. He led them beneath a
+bush near by, where a lot of wild men were dancing about a great fire.
+The men sang a queer sort of song as they danced, while one
+strange-looking fellow, who was a sort of witch doctor, rattled a huge
+seed pod fastened to the end of a forked stick. The wild men performed
+this strange dance once a month, as they believed it would keep bad luck
+away from their tribe.
+
+The Queen of the wild men sat near the fire on the back of her turtle,
+while the rest of the Saboes stood in a circle about the dancing men.
+The fire had been built in a deep hole on top of a large stone and when
+the stone was almost red-hot, the wild men scraped the fire all out with
+long sticks.
+
+Then they lined the hole in the stone with sassafras leaves, into which
+they threw four large frog hams and then covered them over with several
+big leaves. Sand was then thrown onto the leaves, covering the hams
+tightly in the hot hole.
+
+The wild men built a fire all around the outside edge of the stone, and
+while the hams cooked they again took up the wild dance. When the hams
+were baked they were taken out and a piece was served to each person and
+the Lady of Fashion and the Poet both enjoyed the delicious meat.
+
+After everyone had eaten of the ham, the Queen ordered the two Teenie
+Weenies to be taken back to their prison, but although it was very late,
+the Lady of Fashion and the Poet could hear the loud shouts of the wild
+little people for many hours.
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                              Chapter Ten
+
+                        HELP FROM A GROUND ROBIN
+
+
+The army was now in the very heart of the great forest and it took a lot
+of hard work to get the heavy wagons and cannon through the jungle. At
+times a path had to be chopped through the tall grass and all this had
+to be done as silently as possible, for the army was now likely to run
+across the wild men at any time.
+
+“I don’t want these wild men to know that we are in the neighborhood,”
+the General warned the troops. “It is much better to surprise them, and,
+besides, there is no telling just what they may do to the Lady of
+Fashion and the Poet if they discover that we have come to rescue them.”
+
+The path the army now followed was so rough that little headway could be
+made and the General had to order a halt every now and then to rest the
+mice and men. During one of these stops the General fell into
+conversation with a pert-looking little ground robin who had hopped onto
+the limb of a bush near by.
+
+“Do you know just where these wild men live?” asked the General.
+
+“I’ll say I does,” answered the robin, who used very bad grammar. “I
+knows more about ’em than I wants to. The nasty little scalawags! These
+wild men get most all the seeds hereabouts and it’s all an honest bird
+can do to scratch out a bare living.”
+
+“Could you guide us for a few days?” put in the General.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“Gracious!” tittered the bird, “you’d never reach the wild men’s place
+in a few days with all those wagons and mice. They live on an island.
+You’ll have to have a boat or somethin’ to carry you over the water.”
+
+“I have heard that they live on an island,” said the General, “but I
+mean could you show us the way to the water where we would be nearest to
+the island?”
+
+“Of course I could,” answered the bird; “that is, providin’ it would be
+worth my time.”
+
+“We will pay you,” said the General. “We’ll give you six sunflower seeds
+for your work.”
+
+“Make it six and a half seeds and I’ll do it,” cried the bird.
+
+The General agreed and the bird hopped along ahead of the army, jumping
+onto a bush occasionally to point out the best path. After a couple of
+hours’ march, the army came out onto a sandy beach, where the General
+called a halt.
+
+“This is the place and over there is the island,” cried the bird,
+nodding his head towards the water.
+
+The Teenie Weenies looked across the water and they could see the dim
+outlines of the island.
+
+The ground robin was paid his six and a half sunflower seeds and in a
+short time the tired little soldiers put up the tiny tents and made a
+most cozy little camp. They named it camp Bitem, because of the many
+mosquitoes about the place.
+
+As the General did not wish a fire to be built for fear the wild men
+might see the light, the little army made its dinner on two sliced
+strawberries and a few grains of rice. No lights were lit that night in
+the camp and a strong guard watched carefully throughout the silent
+hours, which were disturbed only by the sentinels as they killed
+mosquitoes with the butts of their rifles or stabbed them with their
+bayonets.
+
+Early the next morning the men set to work building a raft which was to
+be used in carrying the army across the water to the wild men’s island.
+
+A great many logs had to be cut, trimmed and brought to the water’s
+edge. The Cowboy hitched one of the strongest mice to the heavy logs and
+one by one they were hauled up to the workmen, who labored for nearly
+three days before the raft was done.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+While the men were at work on the raft, the Turk flew over the wild
+men’s island in search of a good place for the army to land and at the
+same time he kept an eye open for the Lady of Fashion and the Poet. He
+flew as near as he could to the wild men’s village without being seen,
+but he could see no signs of the two Teenie Weenies.
+
+“I think the wild men have the Lady of Fashion and the Poet locked up in
+one of their houses,” the Turk told the General when he slid off the
+bird’s back at the army camp. “I noticed one of the houses was closely
+guarded and I think we shall find them there.”
+
+“We’ll soon find out,” answered the General, “for the army will be on
+the wild men’s island in a mighty short time.” Taking the Turk by the
+arm, the General showed him where the raft was being built.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                             Chapter Eleven
+
+                          THE POET LEARNS SABO
+
+
+While the Lady of Fashion and the Poet were being held prisoner by the
+Saboes, the Poet very carefully listened to the wild men’s strange
+language and in a short time he was able to speak a few of their words.
+
+“Jinks, but it is hot in this shanty!” he said to the Lady of Fashion
+one morning as he wiped his forehead with his Teenie Weenie handkerchief
+and looked out through the tiny hole that served as a window in the
+house in which they were held prisoners.
+
+“If the Queen would just let us go out and take a little exercise once
+in a while it would help a lot,” suggested the Lady of Fashion fanning
+herself with a dry leaf. “Why don’t you ask the Queen? Maybe she will
+let us take a walk now and then.”
+
+“I’ll do it,” answered the Poet, and looking out through the door he
+called to one of the wild men who stood near guarding the house.
+
+“Gip bah wah hoo,” said the Poet, which means in Sabo, “We need
+exercise.” “Tell the Queen we want to get out of this shanty and take a
+walk once in a while,” he continued in the wild men’s language.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  THE WILD MEN ATTACK THE TEENIE WEENIES, AS THEIR RAFT
+  NEARS THE ISLAND.—_Chapter Thirteen._
+]
+
+The wild man grunted a couple of times and hurried off through the long
+grass towards the Queen’s house, while the two Teenie Weenies sat down
+near the tiny door to await his return.
+
+Presently the wild man came back and told the Poet that the Queen said
+that the Teenie Weenies could take a walk whenever they liked.
+
+“Well, we’ll take a walk right this minute,” announced the Poet, and he
+quickly helped the Lady of Fashion down the tiny ladder.
+
+The Teenie Weenies strolled along through the streets of the village
+while the two guards walked a few feet behind them. A great many
+children followed the Teenie Weenies about but, although the Lady of
+Fashion tried to make friends with them, they were very timid and stood
+off at a safe distance.
+
+At one place two wild women were preparing dinner and the Teenie Weenies
+were much interested in what they saw. One woman was baking rice cakes
+on a flat stone under which a fire was burning, while a young girl was
+grinding wild rice into flour by pounding the rice with a small rock in
+a hollowed-out stone. Near the house was a hollowed-out log with leaves
+spread over the top to keep out the dust, and one of the guards told the
+Poet that the log was filled with salt water in which the frog hams were
+pickled before they were smoked.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The two Teenie Weenies spent a very pleasant afternoon looking about the
+village and it was quite late before they returned to their prison.
+
+“Oh, dear me,” said the Lady of Fashion as she threw herself down on one
+of the soft grass mats, “I wonder what is going to happen to us. Do you
+think the General will come with the army and rescue us?”
+
+“Of course he will,” answered the Poet. “All we have to do is to be
+patient and he’ll be here pretty soon.”
+
+“But what if he doesn’t know that we have been captured by these wild
+men?” asked the Lady of Fashion anxiously.
+
+“He will know all right,” said the Poet. “The Teenie Weenies could see
+the footprints of the wild men in the sand where we were captured. That
+is enough to tell them what has happened to us.”
+
+“Oh, dear, if they would only come!” And the poor little lady began to
+sob.
+
+“Here! Here!” said the Poet anxiously, for he always felt mighty
+uncomfortable whenever the Lady of Fashion cried. “You must not cry.
+That won’t do a bit of good—just makes you feel bad and me worse.”
+
+“I-I-I c-c-can’t help it,” sobbed the little lady. “I want clean
+clothes, my hair needs washing, I want some of the Cook’s good apple
+butter, I want my toothbrush and I-I-I want to go home.”
+
+The Poet tried his best to comfort her and presently she cried herself
+to sleep.
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                             Chapter Twelve
+
+                            GOGO’S BRAVE ACT
+
+
+After much sawing, chopping and splitting of logs, the Teenie Weenies
+finally finished building the raft which was to carry the little army to
+the wild men’s island.
+
+“We’ve got to give the raft a trial before we get all loaded up with
+supplies,” said the Old Soldier when the work had been done. “I’ll take
+it on the water this afternoon and give it a good try-out.”
+
+“Quite right, quite right,” agreed the General as he sat down on a dry
+fern leaf. “We’ll have to send the army over in two trips. First the
+infantry can be taken over, then the raft can return for the artillery
+and some supplies.”
+
+“Will the raft carry the cannon and the two mice that pull it?” asked
+the Doctor.
+
+“Certainly,” said the Old Soldier. “It even ought to hold a good-sized
+paving brick.”
+
+“Well, you can just bet I won’t get on that old raft until it has been
+thoroughly tried out,” announced Tess Bone as she arranged her dainty
+little cap and patted the Red Cross badge on her arm.
+
+“That’s the way I feel about it too,” added Sally Guff, the other nurse
+with the army.
+
+“You don’t need to worry about this raft,” laughed the Old Soldier.
+“It’s well made and every log is securely tied with strong, number forty
+thread.”
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Right after lunch the General ordered several of the soldiers to help
+the Old Soldier take the raft out for a trial trip.
+
+With the help of the big sweep on the stern of the raft and the use of
+several long poles, the little men slowly pushed the craft out into the
+stream.
+
+“Jumping beans!” exclaimed the Old Soldier as the raft slid easily out
+into the water. “That is what I call a good—” but the Old Soldier never
+finished the sentence, for at that very moment a big frog poked his head
+out of the water and hopped up onto the raft.
+
+“Oooooo, a-a-a s-s-submarine!” gasped the Dunce. “Jump for your lives,”
+and he leaped head first into the deep water.
+
+Most of the Teenie Weenies gave one look at the ugly frog, followed the
+Dunce into the water and swam as fast as they could for shore. The Old
+Soldier and Gogo were the only men to hold their ground, and if it had
+not been for these brave little fellows, the frog would have captured
+the transport without a battle. The Old Soldier drew his sword and
+attacked the frog, while Gogo struck the big fellow over the head with
+the boat pole. The frog, who had been attracted by the red coats of the
+soldiers, had hopped onto the raft in search of a meal, but he quickly
+slid back into the water at the first blow of the boat pole.
+
+The soldiers who had jumped into the water were much ashamed of their
+behavior and they all quickly returned to the raft and finished the
+trial trip they had started.
+
+“My brave lad,” said the General, grasping Gogo by the hand when the
+raft returned from its trip, “in behalf of the Teenie Weenie army I want
+to thank you for your great bravery and I hereby promote you to first
+sergeant in the Teenie Weenie army.”
+
+“Oh, dat’s all right, General,” said Gogo, much confused at the honor
+thrust upon him. “There’s no fool frog what’s done gonna scare me when
+I’s mad, and I was certainly mad at that fool frog.”
+
+The raft proved to be thoroughly seaworthy, so the General gave orders
+for the men to be ready to board her just as soon as the wind and
+current were favorable for the trip to the wild men’s island.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                            Chapter Thirteen
+
+                               THE ATTACK
+
+
+It was a long trip to the wild men’s island and the General wished to
+make the journey under cover of darkness. “I want to land on the island
+before daybreak so we can surprise the wild men,” the General told his
+officers, who were gathered for a council of war.
+
+“The Sailor tells me,” continued the General, “that the wind and current
+are just right to sail the raft over to-night. I will take over the
+infantry on the first trip and then the raft can return for the
+artillery and the baggage and the rear guard, which the Old Soldier will
+command.”
+
+The Cook had a great pot of rice cooked and he had stewed five lima
+beans. This great amount of food was portioned out, and three days’
+rations were given to each soldier.
+
+A number of picks and shovels, with a lot of bags and a chest of
+bullets, was loaded onto the raft.
+
+Promptly at eleven o’clock the General, followed by several men, marched
+onto the raft and some of the soldiers with long poles quickly pushed
+out into the dark stream.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  THE TEENIE WEENIES PULL THE CAPTURED WILD MEN OUT OF
+  THE BOTTLE.—_Chapter Sixteen._
+]
+
+The Sailor and the Cowboy handled the big sweep at the back of the raft,
+while the Policeman and the Scotchman pushed wherever they could with
+the long poles.
+
+No lights were allowed on the raft and the men were ordered to talk only
+in whispers, for the General wished to land on the island unknown to the
+wild men.
+
+“J-j-j-jimminie C-c-christmas!” stuttered the trembling Dunce, “I-I-I’m
+not a-a bit s-s-scared. Are you, G-g-gogo?”
+
+“Not v-v-very m-m-much,” answered the colored lad, trying to keep his
+knees from knocking together. “I done hope we-all—”
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But at that minute, the raft struck something with such a bang it nearly
+upset most of the little soldiers. In fact, the Scotchman would have
+tumbled into the water if the Cowboy hadn’t caught him.
+
+The raft had struck the limb of an old tree that lay in the water and to
+the alarm of the General it stuck fast.
+
+“This is terrible. Perfectly terrible,” groaned the General, glancing
+towards the eastern sky. “It will soon be daylight and the wild men will
+see us if we are delayed here.”
+
+The men worked with might and main to free the raft, but it was stuck
+tight to the snag and before they managed to get it free it was broad
+daylight.
+
+“The wild men have very likely seen us by this time,” said the General,
+peering towards the island. “So instead of our surprising them, they
+probably will surprise us, but we have got to land. Examine your rifles
+and see that they are in condition to use, for we are likely to have a
+fight.”
+
+“Look there!” cried the Sailor, pointing towards the shore, for the raft
+was now only a short distance from the island. “There’s something behind
+that stick.”
+
+“Maybe it’s a wild man,” suggested the Dunce, turning a trifle pale.
+“Don’t you think we had better go back, General?”
+
+“We intend to go on,” said the General, glancing scornfully at the
+frightened Dunce, “but if you want to you can jump into the water and
+swim back.”
+
+“I-I-I think I’ll stay here,” said the Dunce as he thought of the many
+frogs and turtles that might snap him up if he tried to swim back.
+
+As the raft drew near the shore, several arrows whistled over the
+soldiers’ heads and instantly a number of wild men sprang up from behind
+a stick that lay on the shore and began shooting at the raft.
+
+“Make ready, men!” shouted the General, drawing his sword. “Shoot over
+the wild men’s heads when I give the word to fire. We don’t want to hurt
+any of them if we can avoid it.”
+
+“O-o-o-oh, I-I-I’m shot!” screamed the Dunce, as an arrow knocked his
+hat from his head, but the rest of the little soldiers never heard the
+foolish fellow, for they stood ready, awaiting the General’s order to
+fire.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                            Chapter Fourteen
+
+                        ON THE WILD MEN’S ISLAND
+
+
+“Deliver this note at once to the Old Soldier,” said the General, as he
+handed the following letter to the army aviator:
+
+    Commander of the rear guard of the Teenie Weenie Army, Camp
+    Bitem, on the Swamp Road:
+
+    My dear Captain:
+
+    We have had a battle with the enemy and our brave men have put
+    them to rout.
+
+    Our transport met with an accident and it was broad daylight
+    before we landed on the island.
+
+    The wild men attacked us as we neared the shore and sent a
+    shower of arrows at us.
+
+    I ordered my men to return the fire, and at the first crack of
+    their rifles the wild men were greatly scared and ran off into
+    the tall grass; I believe that it is the first time the wild men
+    have ever heard a rifle shot.
+
+    We have taken possession of a high bank where I have ordered the
+    men to begin work on a trench.
+
+    The raft is now on its way to your camp, and I want you to rush
+    over the cannon and baggage as soon as possible, for I fully
+    expect the wild men to attack us before long.
+
+    I am sending this note by our brave aviator so you can have
+    things ready to load on the raft when it arrives.
+
+                        Respectfully yours,
+
+                             THE GENERAL,
+
+                       Commander in Chief of the Teenie Weenie Army.
+
+    P. S.—I forgot to say that none of my men was hurt in the battle
+    except the Dunce, who was badly scared by being shot through the
+    hat.
+
+“Yes, sir,” saluted the Turk, and springing onto the back of the
+airplane he quickly flew out of sight over the water.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+When the Old Soldier received the General’s message, he set to work at
+once breaking camp and when the raft arrived the artillery was quickly
+loaded. The raft made two trips during the day and most of the necessary
+baggage was taken over to the island.
+
+A line of trenches was considered necessary by the General, who ordered
+Sergeant Gogo to direct the work and that brave little chap had the
+trenches done in a remarkably short time.
+
+Nothing more was seen of the wild men, but the closest watch was kept,
+for there was no telling when they might appear again.
+
+The little soldiers were much too excited to sleep and most of them sat
+about the tiny camp fire until a late hour talking of the day’s
+experience, but one by one they finally rolled up in their tiny blankets
+and slept, while the guards paced back and forth, ever watchful for
+prowling wild men.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                            Chapter Fifteen
+
+                            A COUNCIL OF WAR
+
+
+For several days the army spent their time building trenches and making
+a comfortable camp, while the army scouts learned all they could about
+the wild men and the lie of the land.
+
+The Red Cross tent had been set up and the tiny cots looked very pretty,
+with their clean white sheets. Fortunately, there had been little use
+for them, as the army had been unusually healthy, the only exception
+being the Chinaman, who had been badly bitten by a pollywog, or tadpole,
+while he was taking a swim in the river.
+
+There had been very little excitement in camp for some time. Not a
+single wild man had been seen since the morning the army had landed on
+the raft and the soldiers had nothing much to do while off guard duty
+but to kill mosquitoes, which were thick about the camp.
+
+Early one morning the Turk was called to the General’s tent, where he
+remained for some time.
+
+“Somethin’ doin’, I’ll bet,” thought the Dunce, who was on guard duty at
+the time in front of headquarters.
+
+Something really was doing, for the Turk was ordered to fly out at once
+and make a careful map of Sabo Island. The Turk hurried to his tent,
+where he supplied himself with paper and pencils and a pair of tiny
+field glasses. The army airplane was dining on a fat worm when the Turk
+arrived, so he sat down and waited until the bird had eaten his
+breakfast.
+
+“We’ve got to go out and make a map of the wild men’s island,” said the
+Turk.
+
+“All right,” answered the bird, “I’m ready,” and hopping onto the ground
+he squatted down while the Turk climbed up on his fat back.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Turk headed the bird to a big tree which grew on the river bank near
+the island and in a few minutes the airplane settled easily on the
+topmost branch. The great blue river lay far beneath the Turk and with
+the help of his field glasses he was able to make a good map of the
+island and the surrounding country.
+
+When he returned to the Teenie Weenie camp the General immediately
+called a council of war and the little aviator was asked to explain the
+map in detail.
+
+“Well,” began the Turk, “the circle marked Camp Bitem is the place where
+we camped and built the raft and the dotted line is the course we took
+to our present camp. The wild men have a sort of camp or fort, I
+couldn’t just exactly make out what it was, but anyhow they are gathered
+in some force on the only cleared ground between their village and our
+camp.”
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  MAP OF WILD MEN’S ISLAND.
+]
+
+“We couldn’t march through the grass and trees and cut the wild men’s
+camp off from the village, could we?” asked the Old Soldier.
+
+“No, sir, I don’t think so,” answered the Turk, “for I do not believe
+anyone could possibly get through the grass and trees.”
+
+“Well, that’s too bad,” muttered the General. “I wanted to get those
+wild men out of that place with as little trouble as possible, but it
+looks as though we would have to take their fort by storm.”
+
+All the Teenie Weenie officers gathered in the General’s tent listened
+solemnly to their commander’s words, for they knew it would be mighty
+serious if they were forced to charge the wild men’s fort.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                            Chapter Sixteen
+
+                          WILD MEN BOTTLED UP
+
+
+“I done got ’em bottled up! I done got ’em bottled up!” shouted Gogo,
+the little colored Teenie Weenie, as he ran panting up to the General’s
+tent.
+
+“What’s bottled up? What’s all the excitement about?” asked the General,
+popping his head through the opening of his tent.
+
+“Why I-I-I done ketched one of the wild men and turned him ovah to the
+guard and I done got three mo’ corked up in a bottle.”
+
+“Great Guns! This is exciting. Tell me about it,” cried the General.
+
+“Well, you see it’s dis way,” said Gogo, sitting down on a pebble and
+mopping his head with his tiny handkerchief. “I done took a walk out
+beyond the picket lines yonder. I knew I had no business wanderin’ out
+dere, but I jus’ kept on and pretty soon I run across a big bottle
+a-layin’ on its side.
+
+“I was kind of ’spicious about dat bottle, fo’ I done see through de
+glass where some dry grass had done been fixed up fo’ a bed, mighty like
+some one been sleepin’ dere.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“‘Gogo,’ I says to myself, ‘some one been sleepin’ heah in dis bottle
+and it ain’t none of de Teenie Weenies, fo’ none of dem has been out
+heah dis far.’ Den I made up my mind that it mus’ be some of dem
+scalawag wild men and I reckon dey mus’ stayed in dis bottle when dey
+was on guard duty watchin’ our army.
+
+“‘But why did dey-all stay in dis heah bottle?’ I says to myself. ‘It’s
+not cold nights.’ But jus’ den a big mosquito cam’ a-buzzin’ and
+a-buzzin’ round and den I knew dat the wild men been a-stayin’ in dat
+bottle fo’ to keep de mosquitoes from bitin’ ’em.
+
+“I says to myself, ‘Some of dese wild men will be comin’ ’round heah
+pretty soon and maybe I can done cotch ’em and extinguish myself.’”
+
+“Distinguish yourself,” corrected the General.
+
+“Yes, sah,” continued the little colored fellow. “Well, I done crawl
+under a leaf and waited. I done wait fo’ a long time, but pretty soon I
+done see fo’ of de wild men come sneakin’ along and pretty soon dey done
+make right fo’ de bottle. Three of ’em done crawl in de bottle and one
+of ’em done squat down outside by de openin’ of de bottle kinda like he
+was guardin’.
+
+“‘By de great corn pone,’ I says, ‘if a couple of de Teenie Weenies was
+heah we could done cotch dese scalawags.’
+
+“Pretty soon I thought to myself, ‘Why don’t you ketch ’em yourself?’ So
+I done sneaked out up behind de wild man what was guardin’ de mouth of
+de bottle and done cracked him on de head with de butt of my gun. I
+didn’t hit very hard—just hard enough to stun him a little—and den I
+grabbed a cork dat was layin’ near by and stuffed it into de bottle and
+braced it with a stick of wood so the scalawags couldn’t get out. I then
+picked up de wild man I had knocked down and brought him into camp and
+dat’s all.”
+
+“A very brave deed, sergeant,” said the General. “And I will immediately
+send out a squad of men to bring your prisoners into camp.”
+
+The Old Soldier was ordered to take a squad of men and go after the
+prisoners, while the Doctor was sent to dress the bump on the head of
+the wild man that Gogo had knocked down. After a great deal of work the
+soldiers managed to pull the three wild men out of the bottle and when
+they were brought into camp they were securely tied to a strong blade of
+grass.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                           Chapter Seventeen
+
+                         THE DUNCE IN DISGRACE
+
+
+“Why are you making such a fine camp here, General?” asked the Doctor,
+as he noticed that the Teenie Weenies continued to improve the camp.
+“Won’t we have to move on pretty soon if the wild men do not attack?”
+
+“We’ll stay right here for some time,” answered the General, taking off
+his tiny sword and laying it on the table which stood in front of his
+tent. “We are within striking distance of the wild men’s village, so the
+aviator tells me, and we’ll use this camp for our base of operations.”
+
+“General,” said the Cook, saluting the commander of the Teenie Weenie
+army, “I beg your pardon, but there is something I must tell you.”
+
+“What is it, sir?” said the General, returning the Cook’s salute.
+
+“Why sir, there’s a thimble missing from among my cooking things. I put
+two beans to soak in it last night and when I went to look at them a
+little while ago the beans were lying on the ground and the thimble was
+gone.”
+
+“That’s most strange,” said the General; “I’ll have the Cowboy look into
+the matter and see if he can find out what has happened to the thimble.”
+
+“Thank you, sir,” said the Cook, “I’m a little short of cooking pans and
+kettles and I’d like to have it back.”
+
+The Cowboy was ordered to look for the lost thimble, but before he had
+fairly started the search, the thimble turned up in a most peculiar way.
+Down the main street of the camp towards the General’s tent marched the
+Dunce with the lost thimble over his head and followed by a laughing
+crowd of soldier.
+
+“What’s the idea of this?” asked the General as the Dunce stopped before
+him.
+
+“Safety first,” answered the Dunce.
+
+“What do you mean by safety first?” asked the General, trying hard to
+keep from laughing at the ridiculous sight.
+
+“W-w-well, you s-s-see,” began the Dunce, “I thought this thimble would
+make a fine suit of armor, and protect me from the wild men’s arrows. I
+took it out back of camp, got some tools and cut a couple of holes for
+my arms to go through and another hole to see through—”
+
+“Yes, and spoiled a perfectly good thimble,” put in the General.
+
+“Jinks!” exclaimed the Dunce, “I never thought of that.”
+
+“Of course you didn’t,” answered the General sternly. “You have a habit
+of doing your thinking afterwards, and that is a mighty bad habit.”
+
+“Quite right! Quite right!” cried a field mouse, who had been hanging
+around the camp for a few days. “Quite right, I says. There’s always a
+time to think. One ought to do a heap of thinking before one acts, I
+says.”
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“Yes, you’re right,” put in the General, glaring at the mouse, who was
+very talkative. “One ought to think a great deal and then he ought to
+say only about one half of what he thinks.”
+
+“Words of wisdom! Words of wisdom!” cried the mouse, never dreaming the
+General’s rebuke was aimed at him, and he strolled down the camp street
+quite pleased with himself.
+
+“Now, Dunce,” said the General, “I’m going to try to see if I can help
+you do a little thinking.”
+
+“Y-y-yes, s-s-s-sir,” answered the Dunce.
+
+“I’m going to make you wear that thimble for the rest of the day and
+that ought to help you to remember that you have spoiled a perfectly
+good cooking pot, just because you didn’t happen to think.”
+
+All day long the poor Dunce was forced to walk up and down in front of
+the General’s tent, wearing the heavy thimble. It was a warm day and the
+thimble grew quite hot in the sunshine, so his punishment was pretty
+hard, but there is no doubt it did him a great deal of good.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                            Chapter Eighteen
+
+                         CONSULTING AN ENGINEER
+
+
+The General studied the map of the wild men’s island which the Turk had
+drawn, in the hope that he could figure out a way to attack the Saboes
+without storming their fort. In storming the fort, the General felt sure
+that many of his soldiers might be injured and he wished to rout the
+enemy with as little damage as possible.
+
+“I have it! I have it!” exclaimed the General one morning as he sat
+studying the tiny map. “We can hire a mole to tunnel under the wild
+men’s fort and then we can blow it up with a firecracker.”
+
+“Bully!” shouted the Old Soldier. “And before they get over the surprise
+of the explosion we can charge through the destroyed fort into the
+village.”
+
+“That’s the idea,” smiled the General. “We’ll go over to-morrow and
+engage the old mole who lives down by the river.”
+
+“Moles are great engineers,” said the Doctor, “and what they don’t know
+about underground digging isn’t worth knowing.”
+
+The next day the General and the Doctor, with an escort of four
+soldiers, set out on the journey to the mole’s home.
+
+“S-s-say, what is a m-m-mole anyhow?” asked the Dunce as the little
+party marched along.
+
+“A mole? Why, a mole—let’s see, a mole—why a mole is a mole,” answered
+Gogo.
+
+“I’ll tell you what a mole is like,” laughed the Doctor, who had
+overheard the Dunce’s question. “A mole is an animal almost the size of
+a rat and he lives under the ground. He has very small eyes and ears,
+and he very seldom comes out in the day time, for it is pretty hard for
+him to see in the bright sunlight. He has very short and powerful legs
+with which he can dig very fast. He lives on worms and grubs and roots,
+and he is usually very gruff and bad-tempered.”
+
+Presently the little party came to the place where the mole lived and
+the General ordered the soldiers to halt. They had stopped by the side
+of a steep bank and near the top was a hole under the roots of a tree,
+which was the front door of the mole’s home.
+
+“Dress up in line, men!” commanded the General, “and when Mr. Mole comes
+to the door of his house I want you all to present arms, for we will
+have to use the greatest diplomacy in order to engage this fellow.”
+
+The General stepped up near the bank and called loudly several times
+into the hole and presently a long furry nose appeared in the opening.
+
+“Well, what do you mean by awakening honest people out of a sound
+sleep?” growled the mole. “What is it? What do you want?”
+
+“I beg your pardon,” said the General as he lifted his hat and made a
+low bow; “I’m awfully sorry I disturbed your rest, but having heard of
+your reputation as an engineer I have come to beg your services for the
+Teenie Weenie army. We want to engage you to dig a trench for us.”
+
+“I’ll work for four fat white grubs a day and not a grub less,” snapped
+the mole.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“That’s quite satisfactory,” answered the General. “We are willing to
+pay whatever you ask, but I want you to know just what the work will be.
+We want you to dig a tunnel in the ground so we can explode a mine in
+it.”
+
+“I don’t care a snap of my tail what kind of work it is; all I want is
+my pay,” growled the mole.
+
+“When may we expect you?” asked the General.
+
+“To-morrow at four o’clock, not a minute sooner or later,” answered the
+mole.
+
+“Shall we have breakfast for you?” asked the General.
+
+“Why, certainly! Why, certainly!” exclaimed the mole. “How in the name
+of angleworms do you expect me to work without food? What do you suppose
+I’m workin’ for—pleasure?”
+
+“We’ll have a couple of nice young grubs for you,” said the General
+politely, although he was quite disturbed by the mole’s ungentlemanly
+manner.
+
+“Two grubs and a couple of angleworms would make me work better,”
+suggested the mole.
+
+“You shall have them,” answered the General stiffly. “Good day to you,
+sir.” Lifting his hat politely, he ordered the soldiers to march back to
+camp.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                            Chapter Nineteen
+
+                     THE OLD SOLDIER’S WAR MACHINE
+
+
+At exactly four o’clock the next morning the mole came into camp, and as
+the General had promised, his breakfast was ready. After the mole had
+eaten his grubs, he reported for work. The General showed the mole just
+where he wanted the tunnel to run and immediately the old fellow set to
+work. He burrowed his nose down into the soft ground and then pushed the
+loosened earth back with his powerful fore claws. He worked wonderfully
+fast and in less than a minute he had entirely disappeared into the
+ground.
+
+All day long the mole worked, coming out only for a few minutes at noon
+to eat his lunch, and at half past five in the afternoon he again
+appeared to announce that the tunnel had been finished.
+
+The General sent the Sailor into the tunnel to measure it, for he wanted
+to be quite sure that it reached a point just under the wild men’s fort.
+
+“It’s just exactly eight hundred and fifty-eight feet long,” announced
+the Sailor when he crawled out of the tunnel a few minutes later. “I
+could hear the wild men walking on the ground above, so it must stop
+right in the middle of the fort.”
+
+“’Course it does,” snapped the mole. “Don’t you suppose I know how to
+dig?”
+
+When the mole had been paid for his work, he slipped off into the night
+without ever even thanking the Teenie Weenies for his pay.
+
+“Queer old surly fellow,” said the General as he watched the awkward
+mole waddle off.
+
+“Yes, but you have to admit that he is a wonderful engineer,” observed
+the Old Soldier.
+
+“Well, gentlemen,” said the General turning to his officers, “we have
+got to move our lines forward. You see, we are about eight hundred and
+fifty feet from the wild men’s fort and it is quite necessary that
+trenches be built forward so we will not have too great a distance to
+charge when we explode the mine under the enemy’s fort.”
+
+The officers all agreed with the General and that very night several men
+were sent out, when it was quite dark, to start the work.
+
+The little soldiers had gone but a short distance when they were seen by
+the wild men, who sent a shower of arrows at them, and Gogo was slightly
+scratched on the arm, while one of the wild men’s arrows splintered the
+Old Soldier’s wooden leg, so the General ordered the work stopped for
+the time being.
+
+The Old Soldier was quite an engineer and when he had whittled out a new
+wooden leg, he set to work trying to scheme out some way by which the
+men could dig the trenches without being hit by the wild men’s arrows.
+
+“I have it,” he cried after he had puzzled over the matter for a time.
+“We can make a big screen out of sticks, one that is quite arrow-proof.”
+
+“How are you going to move it?” asked the Turk. “It will be too heavy
+for the men to carry.”
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“That will be easy,” smiled the Old Soldier. “There’s a spool of thread
+among our supplies and all we have to do is to remove the thread and—”
+
+“Use the spool as a sort of wheel to roll the screen on,” put in the
+Cook.
+
+“Right,” laughed the Old Soldier. “We can push it ahead of us on the
+spool and be quite safe from the wild men’s arrows.”
+
+The General ordered the screen made and at once, under the watchful eye
+of the Old Soldier, the men set to work building it. In a remarkably
+short time the screen was finished and early the next morning the Old
+Soldier, with six chosen men, started to push it toward the wild men’s
+fort.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As soon as the wild men saw the screen coming toward them, they let fly
+a shower of arrows, but they either stuck fast in the screen or flew
+harmlessly over the soldier’s heads.
+
+“Great Guns!” cried the Old Soldier when the little party had pushed the
+screen quite a ways toward the wild men’s fort. “We forgot to bring
+along the picks and shovels.”
+
+“I’ll get ’em, Captain,” said the Dunce, saluting the Old Soldier and
+hardly waiting for the officer’s permission, the Dunce ran for the
+trench which they had just left, as fast as his legs would carry him.
+
+The Dunce grabbed up three picks and with the help of the Chinaman who
+volunteered to go along, the two brave Teenie Weenies ran for the screen
+amid the flying arrows which whizzed all about them.
+
+All day long the men worked hard, pulling the screen along as they dug
+back toward the Teenie Weenie trench, and at night, six other soldiers
+took up the work where the rest left off. Several days of hard labor
+finished the work and not one Teenie Weenie had been shot, thanks to the
+Old Soldier’s screen.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                             Chapter Twenty
+
+                     THE DUNCE LOOKS FOR EXCITEMENT
+
+
+From the new trenches the Teenie Weenies could see the wild men’s fort
+plainly. The little soldiers had to be very careful, however, for every
+time they showed themselves the wild men would let fly a shower of
+arrows. The soldiers thought it great fun to put their hats on sticks
+and push them out in sight of the wild men. At first this brought a
+tremendous number of arrows, but finally the wild men caught onto the
+trick and only an occasional arrow would fly at the exposed hat.
+
+The men took turns guarding the front trenches. It was very tiresome
+work sitting in the narrow ditch waiting for something to happen and
+most of the soldiers would have welcomed the order to storm the wild
+men’s fort.
+
+“I can’t see why the General doesn’t get busy and take the fort,”
+growled the Scotchman one afternoon. Several of the men, who were off
+duty, were lying in a mossy place under some big ferns, discussing the
+matter. “We’ve got everything ready for the attack, the men are more
+than anxious to go into action and we could lick the stuffin’ out of the
+Saboes.”
+
+“Keep cool, Scotty; we’ll get a chance soon enough,” said the Turk, who
+was very quiet and always took things calmly. “The General knows what
+he’s about and when he gets his plans ready, we’ll get all the
+excitement we want.”
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“Excitement!” exclaimed the Dunce. “That’s me. I’ve got to have some
+excitement; I’m sick and tired of sittin’ around here without anything
+doin’.”
+
+“Let’s get our guns and go out and see if we can’t shoot some dragon
+flies or mosquitoes,” suggested the Sailor.
+
+“Nah, that ain’t dangerous enough,” answered the Dunce. “I want to do
+something that will give me a thrill,” and getting up he slowly walked
+towards the tall grass near the Teenie Weenie camp.
+
+The General had given orders that none of the soldiers should leave
+camp, for the grass was so tangled and thick that it would be an easy
+thing to get lost and, besides, the savage wild men might be hiding
+behind the thick stalks of grass.
+
+“Jinks!” thought the Dunce as he peered into the dense grass, “the
+General wouldn’t scold me if I happened to stroll out there and capture
+a wild man.”
+
+After some minutes of thought, the Dunce hurried to his tent, got his
+gun and sneaked unseen out of camp into the dark grass. He stumbled
+along for some time without making much headway, for the stalks of grass
+grew close together and the dead leaves tangled about his feet at almost
+every step. Presently he came to an open spot near the edge of the
+island, where he found walking much easier, but he had gone only a short
+distance when he suddenly saw four wild men ahead of him.
+
+“Throw up your hands—you’re surrounded!” shouted the Dunce, pointing his
+gun towards them.
+
+The wild men, not understanding the Teenie Weenie language, started
+running towards the Dunce with loud yells.
+
+The poor Dunce was so badly frightened he forgot to fire his gun and
+turning about he ran as fast as his short legs could carry him towards
+the Teenie Weenie camp.
+
+The army aviator, who happened to be scouting above the shore of the
+island, saw the Dunce being chased by the wild men.
+
+“Quick!” he shouted to the bird on which he flew. “Fly just as close as
+you can to the Dunce and I’ll grab him as we sail by.”
+
+The bird flew straight for the ground and holding tight to its neck, the
+aviator grabbed the Dunce by the collar and snatched him from the very
+hands of the wild men.
+
+The Turk pulled the frightened Dunce up on the bird’s back and a few
+minutes later they landed safely in the Teenie Weenie camp.
+
+“Well, sir,” said the General when he had heard the Turk’s story of the
+rescue, “what were you doing outside the camp without permission to go
+out?”
+
+“I-I-I-I j-j-just wanted s-s-some excitement and I-I-I-I thought I’d go
+out and s-s-see if I-I-I couldn’t capture a wild man,” stammered the
+frightened Dunce.
+
+“Well, did you capture any of them?” asked the General with a wink at
+the Old Soldier.
+
+“W-w-w-well, I-I surrounded f-f-four of ’em, but they wouldn’t stay
+surrounded and they started to chase me, so I-I-I had to r-r-run.”
+
+“Well, did you get any excitement?” smiled the General.
+
+“Oh, yes, sir, I-I-I got more than I-I-I was looking for.”
+
+“Well, sir,” said the General, “I hope you got enough excitement to last
+you for a long time. You are guilty of an act of leaving camp without
+permission and I find it necessary to place you under arrest.”
+
+The poor Dunce was marched off between four soldiers to the tiny guard
+house, where he was left to think over his disobedience.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  THE ARMY AVIATOR SNATCHES THE DUNCE FROM THE HANDS OF
+  THE WILD MEN.—_Chapter Twenty._
+]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                           Chapter Twenty-One
+
+                    THE SCOUTS HAVE A NARROW ESCAPE
+
+
+“General, the men are getting restless. They want to get into action and
+it seems to me that we ought to hurry our plans for the attack,” said
+the Old Soldier. The two little officers were sitting at the tiny table
+in front of the General’s tent.
+
+“Yes, I believe you’re right,” answered the General thoughtfully. “The
+plans for the attack are almost ready, but I would like to get some more
+information about the wild men. I’d like to know just how many are
+guarding the fort, what sort of arms they have and a lot of other
+details. The Turk has been able to get much valuable information, but
+the grass is so tall around the fort that he has not been able to get
+very near in the airplane, so I’m afraid I’ll have to send the scouts
+out for the facts I want.”
+
+“That’s mighty dangerous,” said the Old Soldier, stroking his beard.
+“The jungle is full of the Saboes—they are swarming all through the
+grass, thicker than ants on a chocolate drop.”
+
+“Yes, I know it’s dangerous, but I believe the Cowboy and the Indian can
+get through unseen and bring back the information I want,” the General
+said. “Either one of the little fellows is at home in the woods and
+grass. They are both pastmasters in covering up their tracks. Why, I
+believe the Indian could walk through a lady’s powder box without ever
+leaving a single track,” and the General said it so earnestly there was
+no doubt but that he spoke the truth.
+
+Turning to the guard that stood near his tent, the General ordered him
+to bring the Indian and the Cowboy. “Tell them it is important and that
+I wish them to report at once.”
+
+In a few minutes the two scouts appeared and, clicking their tiny heels
+together, they saluted in the most approved military fashion.
+
+“You sent for us, sir?” said the Cowboy.
+
+“Yes,” answered the General, looking seriously at the sturdy little men.
+“I have a piece of work for you to do. First I want to tell you that it
+is mighty risky—in fact, it is extremely dangerous. I will not send you
+unless you are willing to go—you shall choose.”
+
+“We are ready to go,” answered the little scouts quietly, and their
+loyalty touched the General greatly.
+
+“I want you to go to the wild men’s fort and get all the information you
+can,” said the General. “Find out how many men they have, what sort of
+weapons they use, note the condition of their fort and get some idea of
+the ground beyond the fort. Get all the facts you can and report to me
+as soon as possible.”
+
+“Yes, sir,” answered the scouts and, saluting, they hurried to their
+tent, where they buckled on their tiny pistols. Next they each secured a
+supply of dried minnow and half a boiled bean, which they stuffed into
+their pockets.
+
+They slipped quietly out of camp and after a long and tiresome trip they
+finally drew near to the wild men’s fort. They could hear the voices of
+the wild men now and then and the two Teenie Weenies were forced to
+steal along with the greatest care. Presently they crawled up to a place
+quite near the fort where they could see the wild men every now and then
+through the long grass. The scouts watched the wild men for several
+hours and it was quite late before the little fellows could find a
+chance to crawl away safely and unseen.
+
+Several times on their way back to the Teenie Weenie camp the scouts
+were forced to hide under leaves and dry grass to keep from being
+discovered, and once they had to lie for almost an hour in a hollow
+stick, as several wild men stopped near them to rest.
+
+“It be heap much dark soon,” grunted the Indian as he peered through the
+grass at the sky.
+
+“We can never get back to camp before night and we couldn’t possibly get
+through this jungle in the dark, so we’ve got to find some place to
+spend the night,” whispered the Cowboy.
+
+The two Teenie Weenies found a deserted bird’s nest in a bush near by,
+and, climbing up the bush, they soon made themselves comfortable for the
+night.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Early in the morning the little scouts were awakened by voices, and
+looking over the edge of the nest, they saw several wild men coming
+towards the bush. The wild men stopped beneath the bush, where they soon
+made a fire and cooked pieces of frog ham for their breakfast.
+
+The two Teenie Weenies had eaten what little food they had brought with
+them the day before and as they smelled the delicious meat cooking it
+made them as hungry as bears. There were too many of the Saboes for the
+two scouts to fight, so they could do nothing but lie quiet until the
+wild men had gone. In a short time the wild men finished their breakfast
+and after talking in their strange language for a few minutes they
+hurried away.
+
+When the wild men had disappeared into the jungle of tall grass near by,
+the two scouts carefully climbed out of the nest and set off in the
+direction of the Teenie Weenie camp. Several times they had to hide
+behind sticks and leaves when the wild men passed near them, and once,
+three of the savage little fellows came so close to the spot where the
+scouts lay hidden that they thought they would surely be discovered. It
+was almost evening before the Cowboy and the Indian reached camp and the
+little fellows reported at once to the General. They gave the Commander
+of the Teenie Weenie army such valuable news that he at once called in
+his staff for a council of war.
+
+The little officers talked for a long time and when they finally came
+out of the General’s tent, it was very plain to see that something was
+about to happen. Officers dashed about the camp giving orders, the
+Doctor and the two nurses busied themselves around the tiny hospital,
+while Paddy Pinn spent much time with his Teenie Weenie cannon.
+
+Three of the soldiers carried two big firecrackers into the tunnel the
+mole had made. In fact, everyone was busy and the whole camp teemed with
+excitement, wondering as to what was to happen next.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                           Chapter Twenty-Two
+
+                               THE BATTLE
+
+
+Orders had been given to attack the wild men in the morning and most of
+the Teenie Weenie soldiers slept very little during the night. At
+daylight a thimbleful of hot cocoa and a supply of bread was brought
+into the front trenches and while the little soldiers ate, the artillery
+kept up a heavy fire on the wild men’s fort.
+
+At last the order was given to charge and the excited Teenie Weenies
+climbed out of their trenches and dashed for the fort.
+
+Although the soldiers’ tiny knees knocked together and their teeth
+chattered with fright, they went into battle with great eagerness,
+cheered by the voices of several meadow mice and bugs, who stood out of
+range of the wild men’s arrows.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+It was a great victory. Probably the history of the battle can be better
+told by one who took part in it, so we shall hear the story from a
+letter written by Mr. Lover to his wife immediately after the battle.
+The tiny letter was written on a piece of very thin birch bark, about
+half the size of a postage stamp, but if you could see it under a
+powerful microscope you would read it, word for word, just as it appears
+on this page.
+
+    My dear Bab:
+
+    As the Indian is carrying the official news of the battle back
+    to Shoehurst, you will know before you open this letter that we
+    have won. It was wonderful and I will tell you all about it from
+    the very first. The wild men’s fort, which was made of strong
+    sticks, lay in a narrow path guarding the only open road to the
+    village, where the Lady of Fashion and Poet are held prisoners.
+    In order to get to the village we had to capture the fort. We
+    heard the night before that we were to storm the fort in the
+    morning and believe me, we didn’t sleep much; that is, I didn’t.
+    I was as nervous as a cat in a dog house.
+
+    Early in the morning the aviator flew over the fort and dropped
+    pepper bombs. These bombs are made out of red pepper tied up in
+    thin pieces of tissue paper and when they hit the ground they
+    break and scatter the pepper all around. While the wild men were
+    sneezing from the effects of the pepper, the artillery opened up
+    and sent a lot of shot into the fort.
+
+    Next, a big mine we had made under the fort was exploded. There
+    were two big firecrackers in it and, say, you ought to have seen
+    the sticks fly up in the air when that mine went off! Right
+    after the mine explosion we were ordered to charge and we jumped
+    out of the trenches and started on the run for the fort.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  THE TEENIE WEENIE ARMY DRIVES THE WILD MEN FROM THEIR
+  WRECKED FORT.—_Chapter Twenty-two._
+]
+
+    We were almost halfway there when the Sailor, who was carrying
+    the flag, dropped with an arrow in his chest. The Dunce caught
+    up the fallen flag and putting his hat on top of the staff, he
+    yelled for us to follow. Everybody cheered, for we didn’t think
+    the Dunce had enough nerve to do such a brave thing.
+
+    The fort was badly wrecked by the explosion, so it wasn’t hard
+    to climb over it to get at the wild men. Most of the Saboes were
+    so scared they never tried to fight, but a few of them stood
+    their ground. They were quickly subdued, however. We captured
+    fourteen men; five of them are wounded, but the Doctor has them
+    in the hospital and he’ll fix them up all right.
+
+    Four of our men were wounded, but the Sailor is the only one who
+    was badly hurt. The Doctor says that he will pull through all
+    right.
+
+    We wanted to attack the wild men’s village, but the General
+    wouldn’t let us. He says we have got to take care of the wounded
+    and make our lines safe before we can go farther. Some of the
+    men seem to think that there will be very little fight left in
+    the wild men, for they were pretty well scared by our attack.
+    The Scotchman and I are doing guard duty; we have to guard the
+    prisoners. We are using an old bottle for a prison and it
+    certainly makes a good one; if we keep on getting prisoners
+    we’ll soon have a bottleful.
+
+    I do hope the General follows up the victory and goes right
+    after these wild men, so we can end this war, for I want to get
+    home to you and the children.
+
+    Well, I’ll have to stop now as the Indian is about ready to
+    start for Shoehurst. Tell the twins I have a nice string of
+    blackberry seed beads for each of them and give them each a kiss
+    for me.
+
+                   Affectionately,
+
+                        Your Husband.
+
+    P. S.: The Cook and the Chinaman have just brought up a pot of
+    cocoa and four hot beans! Hurrah! we’re going to have a feast.
+
+                                                              Hubby.
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                          Chapter Twenty-Three
+
+                             THE RED CROSS
+
+
+There was much confusion after the battle, for so many things had to be
+done, and done quickly. The lines had to be advanced and made safe
+against attack by the wild men. The prisoners had to be carefully
+guarded until they could be put into the grape juice bottle which was
+being used as a prison.
+
+Then, there were the wounded. Both Teenie Weenies and wild men had to be
+given the best of care. Just as soon as the battle was over, the injured
+were gathered up and carried tenderly to the Red Cross field hospital,
+where the Doctor and his two little nurses dressed their wounds. The
+Clown and the Policeman carried the wounded into the hospital on tiny
+stretchers and just as soon as the injured little fellows had medical
+care, they were put into clean beds. At first the injured wild men were
+much frightened, but when they were handled so tenderly by the Doctor
+and his lovely nurses, they became quite contented.
+
+The Doctor’s official report to the General gives the best idea of the
+work of the Red Cross after the battle, and it is printed here, word for
+word, from that tiny document.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+                 TEENIE WEENIE RED CROSS FIELD HOSPITAL
+
+    Commander in Chief,     Report No. 14.
+
+          Teenie Weenie Army.
+
+    Sir: I herein give to you a full detailed report of the Red
+    Cross work after the battle of Sabo:
+
+                        =Teenie Weenies Injured=
+
+    Sailor—Shot in the right breast with arrow, which was removed
+    after a hard operation, as the point had broken off between the
+    third and fourth ribs. Eleven stitches taken in wound. Patient
+    in bad shape but will recover.
+
+    Dunce—Shot in hand; slight wound; will be all right in few days.
+
+    Gogo—Two small wounds in right leg and left arm.
+
+    Cowboy—Scratch on cheek from spear thrust.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+                           =Wild Men Injured=
+
+    No. 1—Serious wound in neck from rifle bullet; removed bullet
+    after much work; patient in bad shape.
+
+    No. 2—Bad bayonet wound in side; will recover.
+
+    No. 3—Piece of shell removed from back; nineteen stitches taken
+    in wound; will get well.
+
+    No. 4—Painful scalp wound from being hit on head with butt of
+    gun; five stitches taken in wound.
+
+    No. 5—Shot in shoulder; not dangerous.
+
+    I wish to bring to your notice the good work of my staff. I
+    commend them for their earnest and skillful help in taking care
+    of the wounded. The work of bringing in the wounded was promptly
+    done by the Policeman and the Clown in a manner that calls for
+    the highest praise.
+
+    Tess Bone and Sally Guff, my two excellent nurses, were of the
+    greatest service. Their tenderness in handling the injured was
+    of the highest order.
+
+    I wish also to bring to your notice the kindness of Peter
+    Meadowlark and Bouncing Ben, the jumping mouse. Peter Meadowlark
+    did much towards keeping the patients in a good frame of mind by
+    his daily songs. Every day he came to the hospital and sang for
+    the wounded.
+
+    Bouncing Ben kept the sick laughing for hours by his funny
+    handsprings and somersaults. I owe much to these two
+    kind-hearted fellows for the good condition of my patients.
+
+              Sincerely yours,
+
+                   Surgeon General,
+
+                        Teenie Weenie Army.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                          Chapter Twenty-Four
+
+                           LET THERE BE PEACE
+
+
+After the battle the front lines were moved quite a distance towards the
+center of the island, where the wild men’s village stood. A strong
+breastwork of sticks and grass was built and a most careful watch was
+kept at all times. Nothing was seen of the wild men except shadowy forms
+that every now and then dodged about among the stalks of big grass. They
+were surely in the tall grass, for the savage little fellows could slip
+about in the jungle almost unseen.
+
+It was quite certain that the General intended to move again in a short
+time, for everything was made ready for another battle.
+
+One morning the Scotchman, who was in the front lines, happened to see a
+wild man crawling along on his stomach towards a stick that lay in front
+of the Teenie Weenie breastwork. The tiny soldier raised his gun and
+waited, thinking the wild men were about to charge, but instead a blade
+of grass appeared above the stick and to it was tied a white rag.
+
+“Jinks!” exclaimed the Scotchman, lowering his gun, “the wild men are
+showing a flag of truce.”
+
+“Hold your fire, men!” shouted the Cowboy, who was in charge of the
+Teenie Weenie fort at the time. “They are sending out a flag of truce.”
+
+Presently the wild man crawled out from behind the stick and timidly
+made his way toward the Teenie Weenies.
+
+“What do you want?” asked the Cowboy, peering over the top of the fort.
+
+“Wap gee goo mah be gum,” answered the wild man as he approached the
+Teenie Weenies. Of course none of them could understand a word of this.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“Talk English, you goof,” cried the Cowboy. “I can’t understand that
+kind of talk.”
+
+The wild man carried a piece of folded birch bark in his hand and when
+he reached the fort he handed it over to the Cowboy. It was addressed to
+the General, and the Cowboy at once sent the note to him.
+
+When the note was delivered to the General, he found that it was from
+the Queen of the wild men, written by the Poet, and this is what he
+read:
+
+      Commander in Chief, Teenie Weenie Army. My dear General:
+
+    Her Royal Highness, Mooie, Queen of the wild men, sends
+    greetings. Her Highness wishes to talk over terms of peace with
+    you and suggests that you and your staff meet her at the stream
+    which crosses the path halfway between the Sabo village and your
+    camp. Her Highness awaits your pleasure and asks Your Excellency
+    to set a date for the meeting.
+
+                   Respectfully yours
+
+                        RUFUS RHYME.
+
+    P. S.—Although the Lady of Fashion and I have been closely
+    guarded since we have been prisoners, we have been very well
+    treated and I ask that you take this into consideration when you
+    arrange peace terms.
+
+                   R. R.
+
+The General answered the note at once, making arrangements to meet the
+Queen on the following day.
+
+The next day at the appointed time the General, the Old Soldier and a
+guard of eight soldiers marched off to the meeting place, where they
+found the Queen awaiting them.
+
+The Queen sat on her favorite turtle and she had with her several of her
+warriors and the Poet.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As the Teenie Weenies drew near, the Queen and her followers raised
+their left hands above their heads, which is the Sabo custom when
+friends meet. The Queen was the first to speak, and the Poet, who had
+learned the Sabo language while he was held prisoner, translated her
+words to the Teenie Weenies as follows:
+
+“O, great chief of the thunder wagon (the name, “Men of the Thunder
+Wagon,” was given to the Teenie Weenies on account of the cannon which
+the wild men said sounded like thunder), we have come here to ask for
+peace. We do not wish to fight; we ask only for the liberty of our
+brothers whom you hold prisoners. Give us back our brothers and we will
+return the Lady of Fashion and the Poet to you. We will also give you
+two hundred smoked frog hams for our brothers’ return.”
+
+“O queen of beauty and ruler of all the Saboes,” said the General when
+the Poet had finished, “we do not wish to fight, and we ask only for the
+return of our friends. For their safe return we will free your brothers.
+The hams you have offered we could not think of taking, for we took up
+arms against you, not for gain, but only for the freedom of the Lady of
+Fashion and the Poet.”
+
+The Queen was greatly pleased at the General’s words and arrangements
+were made for the exchange of the prisoners.
+
+That same day all the wild men, except the ones who were in the hospital
+and who were too sick to leave, were set free.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  THE GENERAL AND THE QUEEN OF THE WILD MEN AT THE
+  PEACE DANCE.—_Chapter Twenty-five._
+]
+
+They were taken, under guard of several soldiers, to the stream where
+the General had met the Queen. The Lady of Fashion and the Poet were
+waiting for them and the Teenie Weenie soldiers gave three mighty cheers
+when they saw their friends. The prisoners were exchanged and the Lady
+of Fashion and the Poet were taken to the Teenie Weenie camp, where they
+were given a royal welcome.
+
+The Lady of Fashion was so happy to be again among her friends that she
+did a very ladylike thing—she cried. The nurses cried and several of the
+men were seen to blow their tiny noses and blink their eyes.
+
+“Oh, I’m so happy to be safe with you all again,” cried the Lady of
+Fashion as she hugged the General for the tenth time. “I don’t know what
+those nasty wild men captured us for, we never could find out, but I
+will say for them that they were very good to us.”
+
+“Well, we are mighty glad to have you with us again,” said the General.
+“And it’s through the loyalty of every soldier in our army that your
+rescue has been accomplished.”
+
+“I know it. I know it,” cried the little lady, and she hugged every
+single man in the army except the Chinaman, who was so embarrassed that
+he ran off and hid in a hollow log for nearly an hour.
+
+The two nurses took the Lady of Fashion to their tent, where she washed
+until she was as clean as a drop of dew.
+
+That night the army gathered around a roaring bonfire and eagerly
+listened to the Poet while he told them how he and the Lady of Fashion
+had spent their time as prisoners of the wild men. When he had finished,
+the little people sang songs, told stories and gossiped until after
+midnight, when the General ordered everyone to bed.
+
+“It’s so nice to sleep in a clean, honest-to-goodness bed again,” said
+the Lady of Fashion when she crawled into one of the tiny cots in the
+nurses’ tent, but she didn’t sleep a great deal, for the three little
+women had so much to talk about. They whispered and giggled until early
+morning.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                          Chapter Twenty-Five
+
+                            THE PEACE DANCE
+
+
+“Well, folks,” announced the General the next morning as he sat down to
+breakfast with several of his officers, the Lady of Fashion and the
+Poet, “we must make ready for the march home. We have a long journey
+ahead of us and we must get started as soon as possible.”
+
+“I don’t see how we can,” answered the Doctor, who was helping himself
+to a piece of frog ham. “The Sailor is in no condition to be moved and,
+besides, I still have a couple of the wild men on my hands, who are in
+such shape I can’t leave them for a few days.”
+
+“That’s so! That’s so!” exclaimed the General. “Of course we’ll have to
+stay until our duty is done.”
+
+“My patients are all doing well and I don’t see why we won’t be able to
+get away in five or six days,” said the Doctor.
+
+The little soldiers were greatly disappointed when they heard that the
+army would not start immediately for home, for now that the war was over
+they were all anxious to return. However, they made the best of their
+time by fishing, swimming and playing games.
+
+One morning a sentinel came to the General’s tent, followed by one of
+the wild men.
+
+“This fellow has a message for you,” said the sentinel pointing to the
+wild man, who held a piece of folded birch bark in his hand. “There are
+about twenty-five more of ’em waiting out beyond our lines and they’ve
+each got a big bundle all wrapped up in leaves.”
+
+The General opened the note which the wild man handed him, but when he
+found it was written in the Sabo language he sent for the Poet.
+
+“You’ll have to translate this gibberish for me,” said the General when
+the Poet appeared. “It’s too much for me.”
+
+The Poet carefully read the note and then repeated it to the General.
+
+“It’s from the Queen and she is sending you greetings and some
+presents,” said the Poet. “She also invites you to the great Dance of
+Peace and Plenty. This is the dance the wild men dance whenever they
+make peace with their enemies. You must go to the dance, for that is the
+way the wild men have of showing that they want to be friendly.”
+
+“All right,” answered the General; “tell her I’ll come. Thank her for
+the presents and give her my regards.”
+
+A number of soldiers were sent out to bring in the presents the Queen
+had sent and when they were unwrapped the little people were surprised
+to find a number of fat frog hams, a quantity of wild rice, a large jar
+of fruit paste made out of wild berries, many nut meats and sweet seeds.
+
+“We ought to send a present to the Queen in return for all this food,”
+said the General. “What shall we send her?”
+
+“Send her that thimble the Dunce ruined trying to make a suit of armor,”
+answered the Poet, who had heard the story of the Dunce’s armor.
+
+“Not that old thimble!” exclaimed the General.
+
+“Sure,” laughed the Poet. “She will think that it is wonderful!”
+
+[Illustration]
+
+So the thimble was sent to the Queen, who prized it more than anything
+else she owned.
+
+On the appointed day the General set off for the dance with a number of
+the Teenie Weenies, and as they drew near the village they were met by a
+body of wild men who had been sent out as a guard of honor to escort the
+General into the village. He was led to a spot beneath a big bush where
+the Queen sat cross-legged on a wonderfully soft piece of cloth which
+had been thrown on the ground. Over her head hung another cloth which
+was fastened at the four corners to long poles held in the hands of four
+wild men.
+
+A great many wild men and women stood about an open spot under the bush,
+which had been swept until it was as clean as a pin. Many children ran
+about the place, some of them climbing onto the grass houses and into
+the trees. On the edge of the crowd stood several small animals, and
+some birds were perched in the bush overhead.
+
+The General made a low bow to the Queen and when she motioned for him to
+sit by her side, he sat down on the soft cloth. The Queen and the
+General talked for some time through the Poet, who translated for them.
+
+Presently the Queen gave a command to one of her warriors and instantly
+several men, who were sitting on the ground in front of the Queen, began
+to beat on drums. The drums were made out of a piece of hollow reed. The
+ends were covered with snake skin and they made a very pretty, mellow
+sound. Another man beat on a piece of wood which had been fixed to a
+split reed, while three or four women beat paddles together in time with
+the music.
+
+Instantly a number of voices broke into a loud song from behind a house
+near by and presently the dancers came hopping and prancing into the
+cleared spot before the Queen. First came a warrior with a long spear
+and when he danced directly in front of the Queen he broke the spear in
+two over his knee. Next came a man with a queer seed pod over his head
+and in one hand he carried a whip with which he struck the warrior every
+now and then. In the other hand he carried a dried seed pod which
+rattled loudly in time with the song. The next dancer wore a frog’s head
+and hopped in time with the music, much after the fashion of a frog.
+Several girls followed the frog man, carrying plates of smoked frog ham
+and rice cakes.
+
+“The first man in the dance,” explained the Poet to the General, “is the
+Spirit of War. He broke the spear to show you that the war was over and
+the next man rattled the seed pod and struck him with the whip to scare
+him away, which means that the wild men are through with war and wish to
+get rid of the War Spirit. The frog man represents the frog meat which
+the wild men eat, and his funny dance means that good times are coming,
+for you see the pretty girls follow with plates of rice cakes and meat.”
+
+The dancers performed for several minutes and then the man with the whip
+and rattle chased the Spirit of War over the hill out of sight, which
+meant that the Spirit of War was gone for good.
+
+After the dance a great fire was built and when a heap of hot ashes had
+burned, the wild men wrapped several frog hams in sassafras leaves and
+put them into the hot bed of ashes to roast. When the hams were cooked
+they were cut into slices and served to the Teenie Weenies and the wild
+men. Wonderfully delicious rice cakes were also served and the Teenie
+Weenies ate until they were quite filled. The greedy Dunce ate so much
+he became quite ill and had to be carried back to the Teenie Weenie
+camp, where the Doctor was kept busy most of the night putting heated
+buttons on his aching tummy, until the pain was gone.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                           Chapter Twenty-Six
+
+                                  HOME
+
+
+                    Put a bean on to boil, Mr. Cook!
+                    Put a bean on to boil, Mr. Cook!
+                      For an army, it must eat
+                      And rest its weary feet;
+                    So put on a bean, Mr. Cook!
+
+The Teenie Weenie soldiers sang this song as they sat about their tiny
+camp fire one evening shortly after the peace dance. They were all
+happy, for they were to start for home in the morning. The Sailor was
+now well enough to stand the long trip and that was all that had been
+holding them back.
+
+“He can stand the trip,” the Doctor said, “if he is carried in some way
+that will not jolt him. He was badly wounded and I wouldn’t care to have
+him ride in one of the army wagons, as they are much too rough.”
+
+“We can make a litter and get two mice to carry it,” suggested Tess
+Bone.
+
+“That’s a good idea,” said the Doctor. “He will rest that way in fine
+shape.”
+
+The Turk and the Old Soldier agreed to make the litter and in a short
+time they had built such a cozy one the Sailor was quite pleased with
+it.
+
+“Crickety!” exclaimed the Dunce when he saw the litter, “I wish I was
+wounded so I could ride in that instead of walkin’ all the way home.”
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The army wagons were loaded and early in the morning the little army
+began the long journey home. First the cannon and then the baggage and
+wagons had to be moved across the river on the raft. It took the little
+people all day to move across the river, for many trips had to be made
+with the clumsy raft. But at the end of the day not a single Teenie
+Weenie was left on Sabo Island.
+
+As Queen Mooie had given the Teenie Weenies so many presents of frog
+hams, rice cakes, delicious seeds and many hickory nut meats, the little
+people were well supplied with good food. Every evening after the day’s
+march the happy little army ate their meal gathered around a glowing
+camp fire. They laughed and joked, sang songs, told stories and gossiped
+with the many birds and animals of the woods who gathered about the camp
+fire.
+
+Often the Teenie Weenies listened to a strange tale of the forest, told
+by some owl or chipmunk, and quite often the birds sang to them.
+
+One evening a wicked old weasel came prowling around the camp. The
+little folks were quite alarmed about it, for the old fellow hung around
+for a long time. They could see his wicked green eyes shining in the
+light from the camp fire and when the General asked him what he wanted,
+he never answered. At last the General told several of the soldiers to
+fire off their rifles.
+
+“Shoot in the air over his head and give him a good scare,” ordered the
+General. “I think that will fix him.”
+
+At the first sound of the guns the weasel quickly disappeared into the
+night and nothing more was seen of him, although the men kept a mighty
+close watch for several days.
+
+When the army came to the place where they had built the bridge, they
+found the squirrel whom they had hired to guard it, on duty.
+
+“Well, here I am,” shouted the squirrel. “And here is the bridge just as
+you left it.”
+
+“You have done your duty well,” said the General, and he ordered the
+Cook to pay the squirrel the ten sunflower seeds and the hickory nuts
+which had been promised him.
+
+“Well, I always believe in doin’ my duty,” said the squirrel. “If I
+agree to do a thing I always stick to my word—I’d rather lose every
+whisker I’ve got than go back on my word.”
+
+A bluejay who was sitting in a bush near by snickered and the squirrel
+gave him a nasty look. The Teenie Weenies thought for a minute that
+there might be a quarrel, but the bluejay flew off, so they felt much
+easier.
+
+After a pleasant talk with the squirrel, the General ordered the army to
+march on and as long as the Teenie Weenies were in sight the squirrel
+waved to them from the top of an old stump.
+
+The trip seemed to agree with the Sailor. He grew stronger and stronger
+under the watchful eye of the Doctor and the two dainty nurses. He was
+fed on broth and a tiny bit of poached bird’s egg each day, and as the
+army drew near home he was almost strong enough to walk.
+
+One day the Teenie Weenies were surprised to hear a bird shout to them
+from a bush over their heads and when they looked up they saw it was
+Tilly Titter, the English Sparrow—an old and trusted friend.
+
+Of course the General ordered a halt, while the men gathered around the
+sparrow and asked many questions.
+
+“How are the twins?” asked Mr. Lover.
+
+“Fine! Just fine!” cried the bird. “I was over to the village yesterday
+and they were playin’ foot ball with a gooseberry. They are as husky as
+a caterpillar in a mulberry bush. Your wife is as fat as butter; I’ll
+bet she has gained half an ounce since you left her.”
+
+After the Teenie Weenies had learned all the news from home the General
+gave a message to Tilly and asked her to deliver it to the Teenie Weenie
+village.
+
+“You can just bet your last fish worm I’ll carry that message as quick
+as I can,” said the bird. “Everyone in the village will be tickled to
+death to hear that you are so near home. Grandpa will be so ’appy ’e’ll
+shout ’imself ’oarse.”
+
+Spreading her wings, Tilly Titter flew into the air and quickly
+disappeared in the direction of the Teenie Weenie village.
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                          Chapter Twenty-seven
+
+                            THE GRAND REVIEW
+
+
+Tilly Titter flew as she never flew before and in a short time she
+landed on the ground beside the shoe house, her feathers all ruffled up
+with excitement.
+
+“I’ve got news,” she shouted, as the little women gathered about her.
+“I’ve just come from the General and the army will be home in about
+three days.”
+
+[Illustration]
+
+“Is my husband well?” shouted Mrs. Lover.
+
+“He’s as healthy as a dandelion and as pink as a rose bud,” answered
+Tilly.
+
+“How’s the Poet and the Lady of Fashion?” asked Grandpa.
+
+“Well and ’appy,” cried Tilly. “As I was a sayin’, the army will be ’ome
+in about three days. The General said to tell you that they would arrive
+on Friday afternoon if everthing goes well. He says for you to have a
+good supper ready for the boys and to have plenty, for they will be as
+hungry as young robins.”
+
+“Is the Sailor getting along nicely?” asked Miss Guff.
+
+“Fine as a fiddle! Fine as a fiddle!” answered the sparrow. “Wants to
+walk, ’e’s feelin’ so well, but the Doctor makes ’im stay in the litter
+and ride.”
+
+“Well, we have got to get busy and do somethin’ for the boys,” cried
+Grandpa. “We’ve got to give ’em a big feed and decorate the place with
+flags and show ’em we’re glad to see ’em.”
+
+“We’ll get up a grand supper for them,” cried Mrs. Lover, “and we’ll
+have a dance afterwards.”
+
+“I’ll bring over a big chunk of cheese,” cried the mouse that had joined
+the crowd.
+
+“I’ll get some fat worms for the supper,” cried Tilly, and instantly she
+blushed a deep brown. “Oh, I forget you don’t eat worms. Well, I’ll get
+some sunflower seeds.”
+
+“I’ll donate a few nuts,” said Nick, the squirrel, who had been hoping
+for a chance to speak.
+
+“Oh, I forgot to say that the General said ’e would come in ahead of the
+army so ’e could review them as they marched into the village,” cried
+Tilly.
+
+“He’s going to review the troops, did you say?” asked Grandpa, who was
+hard of hearing.
+
+“Yes!” shouted Tilly, right into the old gentleman’s ear. “The General
+is goin’ to review the army.”
+
+“Well, we got to get a reviewing stand ready for him,” cried Grandpa.
+
+“I’ll help,” shouted the mouse, “and I’ll get some mice to help, too.”
+
+“All right, get ’em!” cried Grandpa. “The sooner we get to work the
+better it will be.”
+
+In a short time the Teenie Weenies were as busy as bees in a clover
+field. The little women set to work cooking and baking. They made cakes
+and cookies by the thimble full. They made ginger cookies, nut cookies,
+chocolate cake, fruit cake and half an English walnut full of doughnuts,
+besides all sorts of other good things.
+
+Grandpa put eight mice, a chipmunk and half a dozen bugs to work getting
+the place ready for the returning soldiers. They cleaned up the rubbish
+under the rose-bush, they moved all the desks out of the schoolhouse,
+where the dinner and dance were to be held, and they made a reviewing
+stand out of the top of a candy box.
+
+Nick, the squirrel, worked hard opening nuts. He gnawed so many his
+teeth became sore, but he never complained, for he was a very patriotic
+squirrel and most fond of the Teenie Weenies.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The little folks decorated the village with Teenie Weenie flags and
+bunting and when the time arrived for the army to march home the village
+was crowded with all sorts of visitors. Bugs, mice, squirrels, birds,
+chipmunks, and even a few chickens and ducks, crowded under the
+rose-bush.
+
+The General rode in ahead of the army and took his place on the
+reviewing stand amid the wildest shouting and waving of flags, but when
+the troops came marching into view there was such a squealing of
+squirrels and mice and squawking of chickens, ducks and birds, one could
+hardly hear oneself think. Grandpa shouted so hard that he had one of
+his choking fits, and a mouse had to pound him on the back until he
+could get his breath.
+
+When the review was over there was much hugging and kissing and some
+crying, for most of the little women shed a few tears of happiness, but
+that’s a strange way women folks have of showing they are happy. One old
+hen cried so hard she had to be led away. A duck insisted on kissing the
+Dunce and a mouse hugged Paddy Pinn so hard it nearly broke his arm.
+
+After the little soldiers had visited for a time they were called into
+the old derby hat for supper and such a supper as they had! There was
+roasted bird’s egg, frog ham, escalloped hickory nut, walnut au gratin,
+creamed hearts of sunflower seed, water cress and wild cherry salad, and
+cakes and cookies and sliced grape and ice cream.
+
+When the little soldiers had eaten until they could not hold another
+morsel, the General arose from his seat at the head of the big table and
+made a speech.
+
+“Friends and men of the Teenie Weenie army,” he began, “I want to thank
+you for your loyal and hearty service. You have gone through hardships
+and you have risked your lives in battle without complaint. You have
+done this to aid those in trouble and nothing greater can be said of
+your deeds than that they were done willingly. Men, I am proud to have
+been your leader.”
+
+“Three cheers for the army!” shouted a mouse who had been helping to
+wait on table, and the cheers were given with a will.
+
+Next the Lady of Fashion made a little speech. She very prettily thanked
+the General and the army for having rescued the Poet and herself from
+the wild men and as she sat down there were tears in her pretty eyes.
+The Poet spoke and Grandpa made a speech about the great war in
+forty-two, but few heard what the old gentleman said, for they were
+anxious to talk to one another about the great events of the rescue of
+their friends.
+
+“Friends!” shouted Paddy Pinn, when Grandpa had sat down, “I think the
+Dunce ought to explain to the rest of us just why that old duck was so
+anxious to kiss him.” Every one yelled so loudly for the Dunce that he
+was forced to stand up, but he was so embarrassed he couldn’t speak a
+word and the Teenie Weenies laughed so hard they cried.
+
+When the tables had been cleared away the orchestra started playing and
+in a few minutes the little folks were swinging around to the music of
+“The Lady of Fashion Waltz.” They danced until nearly morning—in fact it
+was broad daylight when the tired little soldiers crawled into their
+tiny beds, every one of them mighty thankful that they were safely home
+again.
+
+              “The war is over, our duty is done;
+               Hang up the pistol, the sword and the gun.”
+
+               Rufus Rhyme,
+
+                    _Teenie Weenie Poet_.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+ ● Transcriber’s Notes:
+    ○ Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
+    ○ Typographical errors were silently corrected.
+    ○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only
+      when a predominant form was found in this book.
+    ○ Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_);
+      text that was bold by “equal” signs (=bold=).
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+<img src='images/inside-front-cover.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id003'>
+<img src='images/i001.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><i>This Book Belongs To</i>—</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c001' />
+</div>
+<div  class='figcenter id004'>
+<img src='images/i004.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><span class='color_blue'>“<span class='sc'>Friends,” said the General, addressing the crowd, “I have terrible news!</span>”—<i>Chapter One</i>.</span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c000' />
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>&nbsp;</p>
+<div class='box'>
+
+<div>
+  <h1 class='c003'><span class='xlarge'><i>The</i></span><br /> <br /><span class='xxlarge'>TEENIE WEENIES</span> <br /> <br /><span class='xlarge'>IN THE WILDWOOD</span></h1>
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c000'>
+    <div class='c000'>BY</div>
+    <div><span class='large'>WILLIAM DONAHEY</span></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id005'>
+<img src='images/i005.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+  <div class='nf-center'>
+    <div><i>Illustrated by</i></div>
+    <div><i>THE AUTHOR</i></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c001'>
+    <div><span class='large'>The Reilly &amp; Lee Co.</span></div>
+    <div><span class='large'>Chicago</span></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>&nbsp;</p>
+
+</div>
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div  class='figcenter id005'>
+<img src='images/i006.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p>Copyright, 1923, by<br /><span class='sc'>The Reilly &amp; Lee Co.</span><br />———<br />All Rights Reserved<br />———<br />PRINTED IN<br />THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p class='c006'><span class='small'>Mr. Donahey is of the staff of The Chicago Tribune, and to that
+newspaper the author-artist and the publishers extend thanks for courtesies
+in connection with the publication of this book.</span></p>
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 class='c007'>LIST OF CHAPTERS</h2>
+</div>
+<table class='table0' summary=''>
+<colgroup>
+<col width='10%' />
+<col width='75%' />
+<col width='15%' />
+</colgroup>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'><span class='small'>Chapter</span></td>
+    <td class='c009'>&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class='c010'><span class='small'>Page</span></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>1</td>
+    <td class='c009'>Alarming News</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch01'>7</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>2</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Captured Teenie Weenies</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch02'>11</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>3</td>
+    <td class='c009'>Campaign Preparations</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch03'>16</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>4</td>
+    <td class='c009'>A Warning in Camp</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch04'>20</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>5</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Queen of the Wild Men</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch05'>24</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>6</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Storm</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch06'>26</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>7</td>
+    <td class='c009'>A Suspension Bridge</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch07'>29</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>8</td>
+    <td class='c009'>A Badly Frightened Army</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch08'>33</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>9</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Captives Attend a Dance</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch09'>36</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>10</td>
+    <td class='c009'>Help from a Ground Robin</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch10'>39</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>11</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Poet Learns Sabo</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch11'>44</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>12</td>
+    <td class='c009'>Gogo’s Brave Act</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch12'>48</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>13</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Attack</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch13'>52</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>14</td>
+    <td class='c009'>On the Wild Men’s Island</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch14'>56</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>15</td>
+    <td class='c009'>A Council of War</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch15'>59</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>16</td>
+    <td class='c009'>Wild Men Bottled Up</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch16'>63</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>17</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Dunce in Disgrace</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch17'>66</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>18</td>
+    <td class='c009'>Consulting an Engineer</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch18'>70</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>19</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Old Soldier’s War Machine</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch19'>74</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>20</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Dunce Looks for Excitement</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch20'>79</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>21</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Scouts Have a Narrow Escape</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch21'>83</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>22</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Battle</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch22'>89</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>23</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Red Cross</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch23'>92</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>24</td>
+    <td class='c009'>Let There Be Peace</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch24'>96</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>25</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Peace Dance</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch25'>103</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>26</td>
+    <td class='c009'>Home</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch26'>109</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class='c008'>27</td>
+    <td class='c009'>The Grand Review</td>
+    <td class='c010'><a href='#ch27'>114</a></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c005'>
+    <div><span class='xlarge'>The Teenie Weenies</span></div>
+    <div><span class='xlarge'>In the Wildwood</span></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch01' class='c007'>Chapter One<br /> <br />ALARMING NEWS</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>The Teenie Weenies had known for some time that a
+tribe of tiny wild men lived in a big swamp many
+teenie weenie miles from the shoe house. Field mice and
+birds had carried the news of these strange little people
+to the Teenie Weenies. The wild men lived in the heart
+of a big forest and they spoke a language quite different
+from the Teenie Weenies.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“These wild men are very cruel,” a friendly bird told
+the Teenie Weenies. “They are called Saboes, or frog
+eaters, and they would just as soon destroy a person as
+look at him.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, they will never hurt us,” the General said, “for
+we shall leave them alone and, besides, they live a great
+distance from the shoe house.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, you’d better watch out for them; there are a
+great many of these wild men and you can never tell
+when they might come along,” said the bird, who was a
+mourning dove and always looked on the dark side of
+things.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Teenie Weenies didn’t worry about the wild men
+much, for they lived so far away and, besides, there was
+the Teenie Weenie army ever ready to protect them
+against an enemy. But the little people soon had cause
+for worry, for a dreadful thing happened.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>One afternoon a snail raced slowly up to the shoe
+house with alarming news—the Lady of Fashion and the
+Poet had been captured by the wild men!</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Gracious!” gasped the General. “How did you find
+this out?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I-I-I-I saw them captured,” answered the snail. “The
+wild men took them and put them in their boat and paddled
+down the creek. There must have been five or six of
+the wild men. They all had bows and arrows and spears
+too, and they looked terribly fierce.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Ring the bell,” cried the General. “We’ll have a great
+council and see what can be done.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Several of the Teenie Weenies ran to the old derby hat
+which served the little people as a school house and armory,
+and began furiously to ring the tiny bell. All the
+birds and animals who lived near the little village knew
+that when the bell rang long and loud it was a signal for
+them to come. In a few minutes, two birds flew under the
+rose bush where the village stood and one by one, several
+mice, a squirrel and a couple of intelligent-looking
+bugs appeared.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Friends,” said the General, addressing the assembled
+crowd, “I have terrible news! The Lady of Fashion and
+the Poet have been captured by the wild men. This—this
+snail here has just brought the report.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Teenie Weenies and their friends were much
+shocked by the news, while the snail strutted about, feeling
+quite important at being the bearer of such an exciting
+message.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i011.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>“When did this happen?” asked the mouse with a
+squeaky voice.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“About five or six hours ago,” answered the snail. “I
+was walkin’ near the creek when—”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Five or six hours ago!” shouted the General, turning
+on the snail. “For the land’s sake, why didn’t you
+come immediately?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I-I-I did,” answered the snail, with an injured expression.
+“I came just as fast as I could crawl.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Of course you did,” said the General kindly. “I beg
+your pardon. I forgot for the moment that you do not
+move as fast as most of us.” The snail, who had rather a
+sensitive nature, was quite hurt by the General’s words
+and it instantly shrank back into its shell.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>After some talk it was decided to scatter up and down
+the creek in search of the lost Teenie Weenies. The birds
+flew up and down the creek until it was quite too dark for
+them to see, while the little people and the rest of their
+friends hunted all through the night without a sign of the
+Lady of Fashion and the Poet.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i012.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch02' class='c007'>Chapter Two<br /> <br />THE CAPTURED TEENIE WEENIES</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>While the Teenie Weenies were searching along
+the creek for the Lady of Fashion and the Poet,
+those two little people were being rapidly paddled down
+the stream and away from their friends.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Lady of Fashion and the Poet had gone to the
+bank of the creek for a picnic. They had eaten their
+lunch and the Lady of Fashion suggested that they walk
+down the stream in search of wild flowers. They had only
+gone a little ways when the wild men, who had been
+watching them, suddenly leaped upon them from behind
+a big bush. In a few seconds the wild little fellows had
+carried their tiny prisoners to their canoe, after having
+securely bound their hands behind them. Lifting the Teenie
+Weenies into the boat the wild men jumped in after
+them and began to paddle down the creek.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“This is a pretty bag of seeds,” moaned the Poet as the
+boat shot rapidly down the stream. “It’s hard to tell
+what will become of us now.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“If—if we could just get word to the General,” whispered
+the Lady of Fashion, “he’d bring the army and
+come after these—these wild men and rescue us.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“There’s no chance of writing a note and dropping it
+somewhere, with our hands tied behind us.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ll tell you what we can do,” whispered the Lady of
+Fashion. “If we should see a bird we can call to it and
+ask it to tell the General that we have been captured.”</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i014.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>But the two Teenie Weenies never came close enough
+to a bird all that day, for the wild men paddled their canoe
+near the shore of the creek under the cover of the
+overhanging ferns and grass.</p>
+<div  class='figcenter id007'>
+<img src='images/i015.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><span class='color_blue'><span class='sc'>The Queen of the Wild Men, sitting on the back of her turtle.</span>—<i>Chapter Five.</i></span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>As the canoe floated along down the stream the Lady
+of Fashion and the Poet spent their time studying the
+strange little wild men, or Saboes, as they were called.
+They were sturdily built little chaps, but a trifle smaller
+than the Teenie Weenies. They had dark brown skins,
+bushy hair, and around their fierce-looking eyes were
+painted circles of white. One or two of the wild men wore
+shirts with skirts almost to their knees, but the most of
+them were dressed only in trousers which were made
+from the skins of young frogs. Their spears were made
+of long sticks with a sharp fish bone tied to the end, and
+several of them carried bows and arrows, while their war
+clubs were made by fastening sharp blackberry thorns to
+a short handle. Many of the little wild men wore strings
+of beautifully carved raspberry beads about their necks
+and arms, which the little fellows called “gum gum,” the
+Sabo name for money.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The canoe, which the little men paddled very skillfully,
+was made from a huge cucumber, and on the end of
+the boat was painted a queer face. This face was supposed
+to look like a cat and was meant to frighten the
+Saboes’ enemies.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When evening came on and it began to grow dark, the
+wild men stopped on a sandy beach, where they made
+the two Teenie Weenies understand by motions that they
+would rest a while.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Several of the Saboes bent over the stem of a tall dandelion,
+while one of the little men gathered an armful of
+the soft, fluffy down, which he put on the ground and
+covered with dry grass and sticks. He then took two
+sticks and rubbed them together so hard that they grew
+very hot and soon a spark fell into the dandelion down,
+which blazed up and quickly set fire to the grass and
+sticks.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Presently two of the wild men, who had disappeared
+in the direction of the creek, returned and one of them
+carried the leg of a frog over his shoulder. The little men
+cut the leg into great chunks almost as big as a pea and
+these were soon roasting over the fire.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Lady of Fashion and the Poet sat on a log beside
+the fire and although the Lady of Fashion tried hard
+to keep from crying, every now and then a tear would
+trickle down her tiny cheek.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Don’t worry,” said the Poet. “The General will find
+some way to come to our rescue. He won’t let any harm
+come to us.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I-I-I s-s-s-suppose so,” sobbed the little lady. “But
+I-I-I haven’t a clean handkerchief and—and—and my
+hair is a sight!”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>In spite of the fact that the Teenie Weenies were terribly
+worried, the roasting meat smelled wonderfully
+good and when it was done the prisoners’ hands were
+untied and they were each given a piece. Both ate a good
+portion and agreed that it was delicious. They wiped
+their fingers on a leaf and then the wild men tied
+their hands again and made them understand that they
+were to sleep.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>All night long the wild men kept up a bright fire. They
+took turns sleeping and watching their prisoners, but the
+two Teenie Weenies needed very little watching, for they
+were quite tired out with the day’s experience and slept
+most of the night.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>At the very first break of day the wild men were
+awake and after a hurried breakfast of frog ham and a
+blackberry which one of the men found, they once more
+pushed out in the canoe and paddled down the stream.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Two days later they landed on the island where the
+wild men lived. When the two Teenie Weenies stepped
+out of the canoe a great number of the wild little people
+came running toward them. The women and children
+stared at them in great astonishment, while the men
+danced and swung their clubs and spears in a most terrible
+way.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i019.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch03' class='c007'>Chapter Three<br /> <br />CAMPAIGN PREPARATIONS</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>All night long the Teenie Weenies searched without
+success for the captured Lady of Fashion and the
+Poet. The Indian found the spot where they had been surprised
+and taken. Their tiny footprints and the tracks
+of the wild men, as well as the spot where the canoe had
+been pushed into the water, showed plainly in the moist
+sand.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Him wild man, him get good start,” grunted the Indian
+after he had studied the footprints for some time.
+“We no catch ’um before him get home.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’m afraid not,” answered the General. “If that slow-poke
+snail had been a little faster we might have caught
+them.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Ugh!” was all the Indian said.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When all the Teenie Weenies had returned to the little
+village after the search, the General called a meeting.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Men,” he began, “we have got to do something and
+do it quickly!”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Call out the army, why don’t you?” shouted an excited
+mouse that had joined the crowd.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I believe we’ll have to,” answered the General. “I
+hate to use the army, but I don’t see what else we can
+do. These wild men are very savage and I have been told
+that there are many of them. If we go after the Lady of
+Fashion and the Poet, we are going on a hard and dangerous
+mission. We will have many long miles to march
+and there—there may be fighting. Now, men, I will put
+it to a vote. All those in favor of sending the army after
+the wild men in order to free our friends will say ‘yes.’”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Yes!” shouted every single Teenie Weenie, so loudly
+that they made the leaves tremble on the old rose bush
+overhead.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i021.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>The little people started at once to prepare for the trip
+into the forest, for it was there that the wild men lived. It
+takes a great deal of work to outfit an army and the little
+men were soon buzzing about as busy as bees.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Two squirrels offered their services, but the General
+was forced to refuse them, for they were such big eaters
+that the army could not afford to feed them.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Several mice were hired to pull the wagons and the
+cannons and also for the officers to ride.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>A great quantity of food and tools had to be brought
+out and loaded into the wagons. It took seven hundred
+grains of wheat, six hundred grains of corn, thirty raisins,
+six dried prunes, fifty-eight beans, to say nothing of
+cocoa, salt, pepper, baking powder, picks, shovels, pulleys,
+ropes, tents, a great quantity of cheese for the mice-horses
+and many other things.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>It was quite late that night before the wagons were
+loaded and most of the little soldiers slept in their uniforms,
+for the army was to start into the forest soon after
+daylight.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The army was to be made up of a division of ten infantrymen,
+two artillerymen, two mounted scouts, two
+cooks, a doctor and two nurses.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General was in command, with the Old Soldier
+as chief of staff, while Paddy Pinn had command of the
+artillery.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When the little soldiers had said their last good-byes,
+the men stepped into line and at the gruff command of the
+General they swung away towards the great forest in
+which the wild men lived. The Indian and the Cowboy,
+mounted on mice, rode ahead of the army and picked out
+the best and easiest road for the soldiers, while the Turk,
+who was chosen as the aviator, flew above the army on
+the back of a bird, ever watchful for enemies.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>At noon the army halted for lunch beneath the shade
+of a lilac bush, where each man eagerly devoured the
+grain of baked wheat which had been given to each soldier
+that morning as his ration.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>After they had rested a bit, and when they had filled
+their tiny canteens with water from an old tin can, the
+command was given to “fall in.” Once more the army
+took up the march.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The army had a hard time that afternoon, for the road
+it traveled was very rough. The little soldiers had to stop
+every now and then to chop weeds and dandelions from
+the road so the wagons and cannon could pass. Late in
+the afternoon the Turk told the General he had sighted
+an excellent place for a camp, and all the tired little chaps
+were made very happy when the order was given to make
+camp for the night.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i023.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch04' class='c007'>Chapter Four<br /> <br />A WARNING IN CAMP</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>The first day’s march was very hard on the soldiers,
+for the sun was hot and the little fellows were not
+used to such long tramps. When the order came for the
+army to break ranks and make camp ready for the night,
+the soldiers worked with a will unloading the wagons
+and putting up the tents. The kitchen tent was put
+up first so the Cook and the Chinaman would lose
+no time in getting dinner ready for the hungry army.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The mice that pulled the army wagons were given a
+good feed of cheese and they were quartered in a hollow
+tree for the night. The airplane ate ten grains of bird
+seed and hopped onto the limb of the bush under which
+the tiny camp lay.</p>
+<div  class='figleft id008'>
+<img src='images/i024.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+<p class='c004'>When the camp had been put in order for the night,
+mess call was sounded and the soldiers formed in line with
+their tin plates. The Cook had prepared
+two boiled beans and a thimbleful of
+corn soup for the army. Each man was
+given a plate of soup, a big spoonful of
+bean and a large piece of bread.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>After dinner the little soldiers gathered
+on the bank of a puddle of water,
+where they bathed their aching feet,
+while others took off their uniforms and enjoyed a
+good swim. The foolish Dunce dived head first into the
+pool without first testing the water to see how deep it
+was and he nearly broke his silly neck, for the hole was
+only three Teenie Weenie feet (a little over an inch and a
+half) deep.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Believe me!” exclaimed the Dunce after he was pulled
+out of the water and sat on the bank rubbing a big bump
+on his head, “I’m through diving. I wouldn’t dive into a
+teacup full of water even if I could see the bottom.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General decided to let the army rest for a day, as
+the soldiers all complained of sore feet and, besides, one
+of the horses was bothered with a lame leg, which had
+been hurt in a mouse trap a few days before. The men
+were given a little light rifle practice, while Paddy Pinn
+tried out the cannon at long range shooting, bringing
+down a dandelion in three shots at the remarkable range
+of four hundred and twenty Teenie Weenie feet (17 feet
+in our measurement).</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The noise of the cannon attracted the attention of
+many birds, squirrels, bugs and field mice, who gathered
+around the edge of the camp with wide-open eyes.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“What’s the trouble?” asked a bright-eyed chipmunk.
+“Is there a war or somethin’?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“No,” answered the General kindly. “We are on our
+way to rescue a couple of Teenie Weenies who have been
+stolen by the wild men who live in the heart of the big
+woods.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, you’d better go back,” warned the Chipmunk.
+“Those wild men are a bad lot and they are as thick as
+bees in clover time.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We are not afraid,” answered the General. “We will
+keep on until we have rescued our friends.”</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i026.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>“All right! All right!” said the Chipmunk solemnly.
+“I wouldn’t give a wormy chestnut for your lives, but
+that’s your choosing, not mine. Let me tell you one thing—don’t
+forget that I warned you.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Thank you just the same for your advice,” said the
+General, “but we must go on.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“All right!” muttered the Chipmunk. “But remember
+I warned you.” And shaking his head wisely he scampered
+off into the thick weeds.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The little soldiers rolled themselves up in their tiny
+blankets almost immediately after supper and almost before
+the sun had disappeared over the western hills they
+were sound asleep, for they were to be up and well on the
+march before daylight again would appear.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i027.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch05' class='c007'>Chapter Five<br /> <br />THE QUEEN OF THE WILD MEN</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>Although the wild men who had captured the
+Lady of Fashion and the Poet were good to them,
+the two Teenie Weenies nevertheless were much alarmed
+as to what might happen, for the wild men kept their captives’
+hands securely tied, and they watched them closely
+at all times.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When the wild men brought the two Teenie Weenies
+to the island where the savages lived, the captives were
+the center of much interest.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Sabo men and women came swarming down to
+the water’s edge from all directions. They shouted and
+jabbered in a language the Lady of Fashion and the Poet
+had never before heard. Some came gliding out of the
+tall grass, while others peered from behind bushes and
+pebbles, quite as though they were a little afraid of the
+two helpless Teenie Weenies.</p>
+
+<div  class='figleft id009'>
+<img src='images/i028.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>The women were curious
+little people. They
+were dressed in short
+dresses which came down
+to their knees and the
+cloth was woven out of
+thistledown and was
+wonderfully soft. The women dressed their hair in a
+strange manner. The Lady of Fashion could hardly
+keep from laughing at them, for it was coiled up to a
+point high in the air, shaped much like an ice cream cone.
+Most of the men were dressed in frogskin trousers, while
+the children wore bits of cloth about their waists.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The men and women gathered around and carefully
+examined the clothes of the two Teenie Weenies, especially
+the Poet’s glasses, which were considered very wonderful
+by the wild little people.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>After a time the Lady of Fashion and the Poet were
+led along a path toward the center of the island, followed
+by a great crowd of Saboes. Presently one of the wild men
+who was walking ahead suddenly dropped to his knees
+and kissed the ground. Looking up, the two Teenie
+Weenies saw a very big turtle with a very short, fat
+woman sitting on its back. A man who walked beside
+the turtle with a hook in his hand, gave the turtle a sharp
+blow on the nose and the big fellow pulled his head into
+his shell and stopped.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well!” exclaimed the Lady of Fashion. “I wonder
+who this fine lady can be.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Why, why, this must be a sort of queen,” answered
+the Poet. “Maybe she is the queen of the wild men.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Poet had guessed correctly. The fat lady on the
+turtle was no other than Her Royal Highness, Queen
+Mooie, ruler of the wild men.</p>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch06' class='c007'>Chapter Six<br /> <br />THE STORM</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>Before the sun had time to peep over the eastern
+hills the third morning, the little army was on the
+march. All day the soldiers tramped along, stopping
+every now and then to rest a few minutes beneath the
+shade of a friendly dandelion or burdock. All along the
+line of march many bugs, ants and birds gathered by the
+roadside to cheer the brave little army as it trudged by.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“General,” said the Turk, as he slid off the back of the
+airplane, “it looks to me as though we were going to have
+a storm and I would suggest that you lose no time in finding
+a dry place to house the army.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“All right,” answered the General, “I’ll order the Indian
+to ride ahead and select a place to camp.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Even as the General spoke, the little soldiers heard the
+distant rumble of thunder, and the Indian, putting spurs
+to his mouse, quickly bounded away in search of a camp.
+Presently he returned with the good news that he had
+found a fine place to weather the storm.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i031.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>A hollow log had been selected for the camp and the
+little men soon pulled the cannon and army wagons into
+the dark hole. In a short time the storm broke with great
+fury and it was a mighty good thing that the little army
+was protected by the hollow log, for the burdock leaves
+under which the Teenie Weenies always sought shelter
+from the rain would have been a poor place in such a big
+storm. The poor mice who pulled the army wagons trembled
+in terror at the loud peals of thunder. The Dunce
+shook so much with fright he almost loosened the buttons
+of his uniform.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The storm passed quickly and the General ordered
+the army to be on its way, but the marching was hard and
+the men made slow progress, for the ground was muddy.
+The army marched around most of the mud holes, but one
+was too long and they were forced to wade through the
+thick mud. Most of the soldiers got over safely, but one
+of the wagons stuck in the mud and to make things
+worse, one of the back wheels was broken in trying to
+pull it out.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“This is a pretty pickle!” growled the Old Soldier,
+sliding off his mouse at the edge of the puddle. “We’ll
+have to work fast to get this wagon out before dark.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We might just as well unload the wagon, for we will
+never be able to pull it out while it’s loaded,” said the
+General.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>As the mud was quite deep, several of the soldiers
+were ordered to put on bathing suits and carry the baggage
+to solid ground. After much hard work the wagon
+was finally pulled out of the mud, although it took half
+the army and six of the mice to do it. As it was quite late
+in the afternoon, the army went into camp, while the Turk
+and the Old Soldier set to work to mend the broken
+wheel.</p>
+<div  class='figcenter id010'>
+<img src='images/i033.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><span class='color_blue'><span class='sc'>The Teenie Weenie captives view the fire-dance of the Wild Men.</span>—<i>Chapter Nine.</i></span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch07' class='c007'>Chapter Seven<br /> <br />A SUSPENSION BRIDGE</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>The General fumed and fussed over the delay caused
+by the broken wheel.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“It’s just one thing after another,” he grumbled. “If
+it isn’t one thing it’s something else.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, General, it won’t do a bit of good to worry,”
+said Tess Bone, one of the Red Cross Nurses. “We’ll have
+to do the best we can and that’s all anybody can do—even
+a Teenie Weenie can’t do more.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Of course, of course,” answered the General, as he
+paced up and down before his tiny tent. “I know it
+doesn’t do a bit of good to worry, but we must hurry if we
+ever expect to rescue the Lady of Fashion and the Poet.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The anxious General had the army up before daylight
+the next morning. They ate a hurried breakfast and were
+well on the way before the sun came up. In fact, the
+Dunce marched nearly an hour before he was fully
+awake.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The big rain of the day before had left many puddles
+along the way and the little army often had to splash
+through them.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>With the help of the scouts, the army was able to find
+the best roads, for the Indian and the Cowboy, mounted
+on mice, rode ahead and picked out the best path. The
+Turk was of much help, too, in picking out the best roads,
+for he was able to see a great distance from the back of
+his bird airplane.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“General,” said the Cowboy one afternoon as he rode
+up to the commander of the little army, “I believe there’s
+more trouble ahead of us.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“What!” shouted the General. “Great guns, now
+what’s the trouble?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, sir, there’s a stream of water and I’m afraid
+we’ll be forced to march a long way out of our road before
+we can find a place shallow enough to cross. I talked to
+a field mouse who seemed to be familiar with the country,
+and he said there was no place where the stream
+could be crossed for many miles in each direction.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I hope, sir, you were careful not to say where you
+were going,” said the General. “We are now nearing the
+land of our enemies and we are liable to meet with a spy
+at almost any time.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I was mighty careful, sir, and told him nothing that
+might be used against us,” answered the Cowboy.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General ordered the Turk to fly up and down the
+stream on a scouting trip while the army stopped for
+lunch. Late in the afternoon the Turk reported to the
+General that they would have to take a two days’ march
+out of their road to a place where the stream could be
+crossed. The army pushed on and shortly after dark
+stopped near the stream, where camp was made for the
+night.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The next morning the Doctor, the Old Soldier, Paddy
+Pinn and the General gathered on the banks of the raging
+stream to see what plan could be made for crossing the
+water.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i037.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>The banks were very steep and the water was quite
+too swift to ford, although the stream was only two feet
+wide (in our measurement). It was finally determined
+that there was nothing to do but build a bridge.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We can throw a sort of suspension bridge across the
+stream,” said the Old Soldier, who was quite an engineer.
+“It will take us about a day and a half to do the work,
+but we will save time, for it would take fully two or three
+days to march to a place where we could cross without a
+bridge.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The war council thought the Old Soldier’s idea a good
+one and the General ordered the men to start work at
+once. Pulleys and ropes were brought out of the army
+wagons and some big logs for supports were cut from a
+bush near by. Several cattails, which grew near the
+stream, were sawed up into logs for the floor of the bridge.
+The bird airplane carried the workmen and ropes to the
+other side of the stream, where work was soon started on
+a bridge fifty-two Teenie Weenie feet long.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i038.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch08' class='c007'>Chapter Eight<br /> <br />A BADLY FRIGHTENED ARMY</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>It took a lot of hard work to build the big bridge. Every
+single Teenie Weenie worked with might and main.
+Even the mice who pulled the wagons and cannon,
+helped the work along by dragging the heavy logs up to
+the place where the bridge was being built.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The little army was a full day and a half building the
+bridge and when the task was finished the wagons were
+loaded, the mice hitched to them, and led by the General,
+the army marched safely across the bridge.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>A big squirrel who lived in a tree near by was hired to
+watch the bridge.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We may want to get across this stream in a hurry,”
+the General told the squirrel. “If the wild men should push
+us back to this stream, and the bridge is destroyed, we
+certainly will be in a pretty pickle.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ll guard it with my life,” answered the squirrel, who
+had been promised ten sunflower seeds and four hickory
+nuts for his work.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The army once more took up the march and presently
+they drew nearer and nearer the forest. Great bushes
+overhung the path along which the soldiers marched.
+Tall, bright-colored toadstools grew by the wayside and
+everything was dark and mysterious.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>At noon the army was halted for lunch. The little soldiers
+sat on the soft moss under a big fern and each man
+ate the grain of boiled rice and bit of dried raisin which
+he had tucked into his tiny haversack that morning.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i040.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>When the men had eaten, the General ordered them
+to fall into line and stepping in front of them he said:
+“Men, I have been informed by our aviator and by our
+scouts that we are rapidly drawing near the land of the
+wild men, so from now on straggling will not be permitted.
+Soldiers wandering away from the army run the
+chance of being captured and we will soon have need of
+all our brave men.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General’s talk impressed the little soldiers, and
+the Dunce and Gogo, who often wandered away from the
+line of march, were very much “on the job” all afternoon.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>As the army marched beneath a bush, late in the day,
+it suddenly came face to face with a small garter snake
+that lay near a big stone.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“O-O-O-O-O-oh, j-j-j-imminie C-c-c-c-christmas!”
+screamed the Dunce.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The mouse on which the General rode gave one frightened
+look at the snake and quickly ran up the bush,
+dumping the dignified General off on his Teenie Weenie
+head. The rest of the army fled in all directions, in spite
+of the Old Soldier, who tried with all his might to stop the
+frightened soldiers. The snake was almost as badly
+scared as the army and it wriggled into a hole near by
+with remarkable speed.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, this is a fine army, I must say!” growled the
+General when the Old Soldier had finally got the soldiers
+back in line. “If you men run at the sight of a little snake,
+what will you do when you face real wild men?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Pardon me, sir,” said Gogo, saluting the General.
+“We-all don’t mind fightin’ the wild men, but—we-all
+done object to bein’ et.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Forward, march!” shouted the General, and the little
+army moved on towards the wild men’s land.</p>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch09' class='c007'>Chapter Nine<br /> <br />THE CAPTIVES ATTEND A DANCE</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>While the Teenie Weenie soldiers were gallantly
+marching to the rescue of their little friends, the
+Lady of Fashion and the Poet were being kept prisoners
+in one of the funny little houses of the wild men.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Queen Mooie, ruler of the Saboes, was a very fat little
+lady, and like all fat people, big or little, she was very
+good-natured. When the Lady of Fashion and the Poet
+were brought before her, she was much interested in them
+and she made a long speech to the two Teenie Weenies in
+her strange language, but not one word could the little
+people understand.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The house in which the Lady of Fashion and the Poet
+were kept was built up on posts about six Teenie Weenie
+feet (three inches in our measurement) from the ground.
+The houses were built up high as protection from the
+dampness, for the Saboes lived on a little island in the
+heart of a big swamp, and it also protected the little people
+from bugs. The floor of the house was made of sticks
+and the roof and sides were covered with a peculiar
+swamp grass. A flat stone about the size of a half dollar
+was placed on the floor, on which the wild men built a tiny
+fire to keep themselves warm in winter, and a small hole in
+the roof provided a chimney for the smoke.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Twice a day the wild men brought the two Teenie
+Weenies delicious pieces of smoked frog ham, with many
+tiny rice cakes, and every other day the two prisoners
+were given a blackberry.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>One night shortly after the Lady of Fashion and the
+Poet had been brought to the wild men’s village, the two
+Teenie Weenies heard the beating of a drum. For what
+seemed hours the little prisoners listened to the tumtum,
+tumtum, tumtum, of the drum. There was no use asking
+the wild man who guarded them just outside their door,
+for he couldn’t understand them, so there was nothing to
+do but listen to the tumtum, tumtum, tumtum, and wonder
+what it was all about.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i043.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>Presently one of the wild men
+climbed up the ladder to their house
+and motioned the two Teenie Weenies
+to follow him. He led them beneath a
+bush near by, where a lot
+of wild men were dancing
+about a great fire. The
+men sang a queer sort of
+song as they danced, while one strange-looking fellow,
+who was a sort of witch doctor, rattled a huge seed pod
+fastened to the end of a forked stick. The wild men performed
+this strange dance once a month, as they believed
+it would keep bad luck away from their tribe.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Queen of the wild men sat near the fire on the
+back of her turtle, while the rest of the Saboes stood in a
+circle about the dancing men. The fire had been built in
+a deep hole on top of a large stone and when the stone
+was almost red-hot, the wild men scraped the fire all out
+with long sticks.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Then they lined the hole in the stone with sassafras
+leaves, into which they threw four large frog hams and
+then covered them over with several big leaves. Sand
+was then thrown onto the leaves, covering the hams
+tightly in the hot hole.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The wild men built a fire all around the outside edge
+of the stone, and while the hams cooked they again took
+up the wild dance. When the hams were baked they
+were taken out and a piece was served to each person
+and the Lady of Fashion and the Poet both enjoyed the
+delicious meat.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>After everyone had eaten of the ham, the Queen
+ordered the two Teenie Weenies to be taken back to their
+prison, but although it was very late, the Lady of Fashion
+and the Poet could hear the loud shouts of the wild little
+people for many hours.</p>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch10' class='c007'>Chapter Ten<br /> <br />HELP FROM A GROUND ROBIN</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>The army was now in the very heart of the great
+forest and it took a lot of hard work to get the heavy
+wagons and cannon through the jungle. At times a path
+had to be chopped through the tall grass and all this
+had to be done as silently as possible, for the army was
+now likely to run across the wild men at any time.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I don’t want these wild men to know that we are in
+the neighborhood,” the General warned the troops. “It
+is much better to surprise them, and, besides, there is no
+telling just what they may do to the Lady of Fashion
+and the Poet if they discover that we have come to
+rescue them.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The path the army now followed was so rough that
+little headway could be made and the General had to
+order a halt every now and then to rest the mice and
+men. During one of these stops the General fell into conversation
+with a pert-looking little ground robin who had
+hopped onto the limb of a bush near by.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Do you know just where these wild men live?”
+asked the General.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ll say I does,” answered the robin, who used very
+bad grammar. “I knows more about ’em than I wants
+to. The nasty little scalawags! These wild men get most
+all the seeds hereabouts and it’s all an honest bird can
+do to scratch out a bare living.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Could you guide us for a few days?” put in the
+General.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i046.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Gracious!” tittered the bird, “you’d never reach the
+wild men’s place in a few days with all those wagons
+and mice. They live on an island. You’ll have to have a
+boat or somethin’ to carry you over the water.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I have heard that they live on an island,” said the
+General, “but I mean could you show us the way to the
+water where we would be nearest to the island?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Of course I could,” answered the bird; “that is, providin’
+it would be worth my time.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We will pay you,” said the General. “We’ll give you
+six sunflower seeds for your work.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Make it six and a half seeds and I’ll do it,” cried
+the bird.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General agreed and the bird hopped along ahead
+of the army, jumping onto a bush occasionally to point
+out the best path. After a couple of hours’ march, the
+army came out onto a sandy beach, where the General
+called a halt.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“This is the place and over there is the island,” cried
+the bird, nodding his head towards the water.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Teenie Weenies looked across the water and they
+could see the dim outlines of the island.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The ground robin was paid his six and a half sunflower
+seeds and in a short time the tired little soldiers put up the
+tiny tents and made a most cozy little camp. They named
+it camp Bitem, because of the many mosquitoes about the
+place.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>As the General did not wish a fire to be built for fear
+the wild men might see the light, the little army made its
+dinner on two sliced strawberries and a few grains of rice.
+No lights were lit that night in the camp and a strong
+guard watched carefully throughout the silent hours,
+which were disturbed only by the sentinels as they killed
+mosquitoes with the butts of their rifles or stabbed them
+with their bayonets.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Early the next morning the men set to work building
+a raft which was to be used in carrying the army across
+the water to the wild men’s island.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>A great many logs had to be cut, trimmed and brought
+to the water’s edge. The Cowboy hitched one of the
+strongest mice to the heavy logs and one by one they
+were hauled up to the workmen, who labored for nearly
+three days before the raft was done.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i048.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>While the men were at work on the raft, the Turk flew
+over the wild men’s island in search of a good place for
+the army to land and at the same time he kept an eye
+open for the Lady of Fashion and the Poet. He flew as
+near as he could to the wild men’s village without being
+seen, but he could see no signs of the two Teenie Weenies.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I think the wild men have the Lady of Fashion and
+the Poet locked up in one of their houses,” the Turk told
+the General when he slid off the bird’s back at the army
+camp. “I noticed one of the houses was closely guarded
+and I think we shall find them there.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We’ll soon find out,” answered the General, “for the
+army will be on the wild men’s island in a mighty short
+time.” Taking the Turk by the arm, the General showed
+him where the raft was being built.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i049.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch11' class='c007'>Chapter Eleven<br /> <br />THE POET LEARNS SABO</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>While the Lady of Fashion and the Poet were being
+held prisoner by the Saboes, the Poet very carefully
+listened to the wild men’s strange language and in
+a short time he was able to speak a few of their words.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Jinks, but it is hot in this shanty!” he said to the
+Lady of Fashion one morning as he wiped his forehead
+with his Teenie Weenie handkerchief and looked out
+through the tiny hole that served as a window in the
+house in which they were held prisoners.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“If the Queen would just let us go out and take a little
+exercise once in a while it would help a lot,” suggested
+the Lady of Fashion fanning herself with a dry leaf.
+“Why don’t you ask the Queen? Maybe she will let us
+take a walk now and then.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ll do it,” answered the Poet, and looking out
+through the door he called to one of the wild men who
+stood near guarding the house.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Gip bah wah hoo,” said the Poet, which means in
+Sabo, “We need exercise.” “Tell the Queen we want to
+get out of this shanty and take a walk once in a while,”
+he continued in the wild men’s language.</p>
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i051.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><span class='color_blue'><span class='sc'>The Wild Men attack the Teenie Weenies, as their raft nears the island.</span>—<i>Chapter Thirteen.</i></span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>The wild man grunted a couple of times and hurried
+off through the long grass towards the Queen’s house,
+while the two Teenie Weenies sat down near the tiny door
+to await his return.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Presently the wild man came back and told the Poet
+that the Queen said that the Teenie Weenies could take
+a walk whenever they liked.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, we’ll take a walk right this minute,” announced
+the Poet, and he quickly helped the Lady of Fashion
+down the tiny ladder.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Teenie Weenies strolled along through the
+streets of the village while the two guards walked a few
+feet behind them. A great many children followed the
+Teenie Weenies about but, although the Lady of Fashion
+tried to make friends with them, they were very timid
+and stood off at a safe distance.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>At one place two wild women were preparing dinner
+and the Teenie Weenies were much interested in what
+they saw. One woman was baking rice cakes on a flat
+stone under which a fire was burning, while a young girl
+was grinding wild rice into flour by pounding the rice
+with a small rock in a hollowed-out stone. Near the house
+was a hollowed-out log with leaves spread over the top
+to keep out the dust, and one of the guards told the Poet
+that the log was filled with salt water in which the frog
+hams were pickled before they were smoked.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i054.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>The two Teenie Weenies spent a very pleasant afternoon
+looking about the village and it was quite late before
+they returned to their prison.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Oh, dear me,” said the Lady of Fashion as she threw
+herself down on one of the soft grass mats, “I wonder
+what is going to happen to us. Do you think the General
+will come with the army and rescue us?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Of course he will,” answered the Poet. “All we have
+to do is to be patient and he’ll be here pretty soon.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“But what if he doesn’t know that we have been captured
+by these wild men?” asked the Lady of Fashion
+anxiously.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“He will know all right,” said the Poet. “The Teenie
+Weenies could see the footprints of the wild men in the
+sand where we were captured. That is enough to tell
+them what has happened to us.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Oh, dear, if they would only come!” And the poor
+little lady began to sob.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Here! Here!” said the Poet anxiously, for he always
+felt mighty uncomfortable whenever the Lady of Fashion
+cried. “You must not cry. That won’t do a bit of good—just
+makes you feel bad and me worse.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I-I-I c-c-can’t help it,” sobbed the little lady. “I want
+clean clothes, my hair needs washing, I want some of the
+Cook’s good apple butter, I want my toothbrush and I-I-I
+want to go home.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Poet tried his best to comfort her and presently
+she cried herself to sleep.</p>
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch12' class='c007'>Chapter Twelve<br /> <br />GOGO’S BRAVE ACT</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>After much sawing, chopping and splitting of logs,
+the Teenie Weenies finally finished building the raft
+which was to carry the little army to the wild men’s
+island.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We’ve got to give the raft a trial before we get all
+loaded up with supplies,” said the Old Soldier when the
+work had been done. “I’ll take it on the water this afternoon
+and give it a good try-out.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Quite right, quite right,” agreed the General as he
+sat down on a dry fern leaf. “We’ll have to send the army
+over in two trips. First the infantry can be taken over,
+then the raft can return for the artillery and some supplies.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Will the raft carry the cannon and the two mice that
+pull it?” asked the Doctor.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Certainly,” said the Old Soldier. “It even ought to
+hold a good-sized paving brick.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, you can just bet I won’t get on that old raft until
+it has been thoroughly tried out,” announced Tess
+Bone as she arranged her dainty little cap and patted the
+Red Cross badge on her arm.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“That’s the way I feel about it too,” added Sally Guff,
+the other nurse with the army.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“You don’t need to worry about this raft,” laughed
+the Old Soldier. “It’s well made and every log is securely
+tied with strong, number forty thread.”</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i057.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>Right after lunch the General ordered several of the
+soldiers to help the Old Soldier take the raft out for a trial
+trip.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>With the help of the big sweep on the stern of the raft
+and the use of several long poles, the little men slowly
+pushed the craft out into the stream.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Jumping beans!” exclaimed the Old Soldier as the
+raft slid easily out into the water. “That is what I call a
+good—” but the Old Soldier never finished the sentence,
+for at that very moment a big frog poked his head out of
+the water and hopped up onto the raft.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Oooooo, a-a-a s-s-submarine!” gasped the Dunce.
+“Jump for your lives,” and he leaped head first into the
+deep water.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Most of the Teenie Weenies gave one look at the ugly
+frog, followed the Dunce into the water and swam as
+fast as they could for shore. The Old Soldier and Gogo
+were the only men to hold their ground, and if it had
+not been for these brave little fellows, the frog would
+have captured the transport without a battle. The Old
+Soldier drew his sword and attacked the frog, while Gogo
+struck the big fellow over the head with the boat pole.
+The frog, who had been attracted by the red coats of the
+soldiers, had hopped onto the raft in search of a meal,
+but he quickly slid back into the water at the first blow
+of the boat pole.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The soldiers who had jumped into the water were
+much ashamed of their behavior and they all quickly
+returned to the raft and finished the trial trip they had
+started.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“My brave lad,” said the General, grasping Gogo by
+the hand when the raft returned from its trip, “in behalf
+of the Teenie Weenie army I want to thank you for your
+great bravery and I hereby promote you to first sergeant
+in the Teenie Weenie army.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Oh, dat’s all right, General,” said Gogo, much confused
+at the honor thrust upon him. “There’s no fool
+frog what’s done gonna scare me when I’s mad, and I was
+certainly mad at that fool frog.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The raft proved to be thoroughly seaworthy, so the
+General gave orders for the men to be ready to board
+her just as soon as the wind and current were favorable
+for the trip to the wild men’s island.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i059.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch13' class='c007'>Chapter Thirteen<br /> <br />THE ATTACK</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>It was a long trip to the wild men’s island and the
+General wished to make the journey under cover of
+darkness. “I want to land on the island before daybreak
+so we can surprise the wild men,” the General told his
+officers, who were gathered for a council of war.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“The Sailor tells me,” continued the General, “that
+the wind and current are just right to sail the raft over
+to-night. I will take over the infantry on the first trip
+and then the raft can return for the artillery and the baggage
+and the rear guard, which the Old Soldier will command.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Cook had a great pot of rice cooked and he had
+stewed five lima beans. This great amount of food was
+portioned out, and three days’ rations were given to each
+soldier.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>A number of picks and shovels, with a lot of bags and
+a chest of bullets, was loaded onto the raft.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Promptly at eleven o’clock the General, followed by
+several men, marched onto the raft and some of the soldiers
+with long poles quickly pushed out into the dark
+stream.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i061.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><span class='color_blue'><span class='sc'>The Teenie Weenies pull the captured Wild Men out of the bottle.</span>—<i>Chapter Sixteen.</i></span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Sailor and the Cowboy handled the big sweep at
+the back of the raft, while the Policeman and the Scotchman
+pushed wherever they could with the long poles.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>No lights were allowed on the raft and the men were
+ordered to talk only in whispers, for the General wished
+to land on the island unknown to the wild men.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“J-j-j-jimminie C-c-christmas!” stuttered the trembling
+Dunce, “I-I-I’m not a-a bit s-s-scared. Are you,
+G-g-gogo?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Not v-v-very m-m-much,” answered the colored lad,
+trying to keep his knees from knocking together. “I
+done hope we-all—”</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i063.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>But at that minute, the raft struck something with such
+a bang it nearly upset most of the little soldiers. In fact,
+the Scotchman would have tumbled into the water if the
+Cowboy hadn’t caught him.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The raft had struck the limb of an old tree that lay in
+the water and to the alarm of the General it stuck fast.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“This is terrible. Perfectly terrible,” groaned the General,
+glancing towards the eastern sky. “It will soon be
+daylight and the wild men will see us if we are delayed
+here.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The men worked with might and main to free the raft,
+but it was stuck tight to the snag and before they managed
+to get it free it was broad daylight.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“The wild men have very likely seen us by this time,”
+said the General, peering towards the island. “So instead
+of our surprising them, they probably will surprise
+us, but we have got to land. Examine your rifles and see
+that they are in condition to use, for we are likely to have
+a fight.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Look there!” cried the Sailor, pointing towards the
+shore, for the raft was now only a short distance from the
+island. “There’s something behind that stick.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Maybe it’s a wild man,” suggested the Dunce, turning
+a trifle pale. “Don’t you think we had better go back,
+General?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We intend to go on,” said the General, glancing
+scornfully at the frightened Dunce, “but if you want to
+you can jump into the water and swim back.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I-I-I think I’ll stay here,” said the Dunce as he
+thought of the many frogs and turtles that might snap
+him up if he tried to swim back.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>As the raft drew near the shore, several arrows whistled
+over the soldiers’ heads and instantly a number of
+wild men sprang up from behind a stick that lay on the
+shore and began shooting at the raft.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Make ready, men!” shouted the General, drawing his
+sword. “Shoot over the wild men’s heads when I give the
+word to fire. We don’t want to hurt any of them if we can
+avoid it.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“O-o-o-oh, I-I-I’m shot!” screamed the Dunce, as an
+arrow knocked his hat from his head, but the rest of the
+little soldiers never heard the foolish fellow, for they stood
+ready, awaiting the General’s order to fire.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i065.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch14' class='c007'>Chapter Fourteen<br /> <br />ON THE WILD MEN’S ISLAND</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>“Deliver this note at once to the Old Soldier,” said
+the General, as he handed the following letter to
+the army aviator:</p>
+
+<p class='c011'>Commander of the rear guard of the Teenie Weenie Army,
+Camp Bitem, on the Swamp Road:</p>
+
+<p class='c012'>My dear Captain:</p>
+<p class='c013'>We have had a battle with the enemy and our brave men
+have put them to rout.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>Our transport met with an accident and it was broad daylight
+before we landed on the island.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>The wild men attacked us as we neared the shore and sent
+a shower of arrows at us.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>I ordered my men to return the fire, and at the first crack
+of their rifles the wild men were greatly scared and ran off
+into the tall grass; I believe that it is the first time the wild
+men have ever heard a rifle shot.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>We have taken possession of a high bank where I have
+ordered the men to begin work on a trench.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>The raft is now on its way to your camp, and I want you
+to rush over the cannon and baggage as soon as possible, for
+I fully expect the wild men to attack us before long.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>I am sending this note by our brave aviator so you can
+have things ready to load on the raft when it arrives.</p>
+<p class='c014'>Respectfully yours,</p>
+<p class='c015'>THE GENERAL,</p>
+<div class='c016'>Commander in Chief of the Teenie Weenie Army.</div>
+
+<p class='c013'>P. S.—I forgot to say that none of my men was hurt in
+the battle except the Dunce, who was badly scared by being
+shot through the hat.</p>
+
+<p class='c017'>“Yes, sir,” saluted the Turk, and springing onto the
+back of the airplane he quickly flew out of sight over the
+water.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i067.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>When the Old Soldier received the General’s message,
+he set to work at once breaking camp and when the raft
+arrived the artillery was quickly loaded. The raft made
+two trips during the day and most of the necessary baggage
+was taken over to the island.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>A line of trenches was considered necessary by the
+General, who ordered Sergeant Gogo to direct the work
+and that brave little chap had the trenches done in a remarkably
+short time.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Nothing more was seen of the wild men, but the closest
+watch was kept, for there was no telling when they might
+appear again.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The little soldiers were much too excited to sleep and
+most of them sat about the tiny camp fire until a late hour
+talking of the day’s experience, but one by one they finally
+rolled up in their tiny blankets and slept, while the guards
+paced back and forth, ever watchful for prowling wild
+men.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id011'>
+<img src='images/i068.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch15' class='c007'>Chapter Fifteen<br /> <br />A COUNCIL OF WAR</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>For several days the army spent their time building
+trenches and making a comfortable camp, while the
+army scouts learned all they could about the wild men
+and the lie of the land.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Red Cross tent had been set up and the tiny cots
+looked very pretty, with their clean white sheets. Fortunately,
+there had been little use for them, as the army had
+been unusually healthy, the only exception being the
+Chinaman, who had been badly bitten by a pollywog, or
+tadpole, while he was taking a swim in the river.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>There had been very little excitement in camp for
+some time. Not a single wild man had been seen since
+the morning the army had landed on the raft and the soldiers
+had nothing much to do while off guard duty but to
+kill mosquitoes, which were thick about the camp.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Early one morning the Turk was called to the General’s
+tent, where he remained for some time.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Somethin’ doin’, I’ll bet,” thought the Dunce, who
+was on guard duty at the time in front of headquarters.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Something really was doing, for the Turk was ordered
+to fly out at once and make a careful map of Sabo Island.
+The Turk hurried to his tent, where he supplied himself
+with paper and pencils and a pair of tiny field glasses.
+The army airplane was dining on a fat worm when the
+Turk arrived, so he sat down and waited until the bird had
+eaten his breakfast.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We’ve got to go out and make a map of the wild men’s
+island,” said the Turk.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“All right,” answered the bird, “I’m ready,” and hopping
+onto the ground he squatted down while the Turk
+climbed up on his fat back.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id012'>
+<img src='images/i070.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Turk headed the bird to a big tree which grew on
+the river bank near the island and in a few minutes the
+airplane settled easily on the topmost branch. The great
+blue river lay far beneath the Turk and with the help of
+his field glasses he was able to make a good map of the
+island and the surrounding country.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When he returned to the Teenie Weenie camp the
+General immediately called a council of war and the little
+aviator was asked to explain the map in detail.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well,” began the Turk, “the circle marked Camp Bitem
+is the place where we camped and built the raft and the
+dotted line is the course we took to our present camp. The
+wild men have a sort of camp or fort, I couldn’t just exactly
+make out what it was, but anyhow they are gathered
+in some force on the only cleared ground between
+their village and our camp.”</p>
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i071.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p>MAP OF WILD MEN’S ISLAND.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We couldn’t march through the grass and trees and
+cut the wild men’s camp off from the village, could we?”
+asked the Old Soldier.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“No, sir, I don’t think so,” answered the Turk, “for I
+do not believe anyone could possibly get through the
+grass and trees.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, that’s too bad,” muttered the General. “I
+wanted to get those wild men out of that place with as little
+trouble as possible, but it looks as though we would
+have to take their fort by storm.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>All the Teenie Weenie officers gathered in the General’s
+tent listened solemnly to their commander’s words,
+for they knew it would be mighty serious if they were
+forced to charge the wild men’s fort.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i072.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch16' class='c007'>Chapter Sixteen<br /> <br />WILD MEN BOTTLED UP</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>“I done got ’em bottled up! I done got ’em bottled
+up!” shouted Gogo, the little colored Teenie Weenie,
+as he ran panting up to the General’s tent.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“What’s bottled up? What’s all the excitement
+about?” asked the General, popping his head through
+the opening of his tent.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Why I-I-I done ketched one of the wild men and
+turned him ovah to the guard and I done got three mo’
+corked up in a bottle.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Great Guns! This is exciting. Tell me about it,” cried
+the General.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, you see it’s dis way,” said Gogo, sitting down
+on a pebble and mopping his head with his tiny handkerchief.
+“I done took a walk out beyond the picket lines yonder.
+I knew I had no business wanderin’ out dere, but I
+jus’ kept on and pretty soon I run across a big bottle
+a-layin’ on its side.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I was kind of ’spicious about dat bottle, fo’ I done see
+through de glass where some dry grass had done been
+fixed up fo’ a bed, mighty like some one been sleepin’
+dere.</p>
+
+<div  class='figleft id013'>
+<img src='images/i074.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+<p class='c004'>“‘Gogo,’ I says to myself, ‘some one been sleepin’ heah
+in dis bottle and it ain’t none of de Teenie Weenies, fo’
+none of dem has been out heah dis
+far.’ Den I made up my mind that
+it mus’ be some of dem scalawag
+wild men and I reckon dey mus’
+stayed in dis bottle when dey was on
+guard duty watchin’ our army.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“‘But why did dey-all stay in
+dis heah bottle?’ I says to myself.
+‘It’s not cold nights.’ But jus’ den a
+big mosquito cam’ a-buzzin’ and a-buzzin’ round and den
+I knew dat the wild men been a-stayin’ in dat bottle fo’ to
+keep de mosquitoes from bitin’ ’em.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I says to myself, ‘Some of dese wild men will be comin’
+’round heah pretty soon and maybe I can done cotch ’em
+and extinguish myself.’”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Distinguish yourself,” corrected the General.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Yes, sah,” continued the little colored fellow. “Well,
+I done crawl under a leaf and waited. I done wait fo’ a
+long time, but pretty soon I done see fo’ of de wild men
+come sneakin’ along and pretty soon dey done make right
+fo’ de bottle. Three of ’em done crawl in de bottle and
+one of ’em done squat down outside by de openin’ of de
+bottle kinda like he was guardin’.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“‘By de great corn pone,’ I says, ‘if a couple of de Teenie
+Weenies was heah we could done cotch dese scalawags.’</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Pretty soon I thought to myself, ‘Why don’t you ketch
+’em yourself?’ So I done sneaked out up behind de wild
+man what was guardin’ de mouth of de bottle and done
+cracked him on de head with de butt of my gun. I didn’t
+hit very hard—just hard enough to stun him a little—and
+den I grabbed a cork dat was layin’ near by and stuffed
+it into de bottle and braced it with a stick of wood so the
+scalawags couldn’t get out. I then picked up de wild man
+I had knocked down and brought him into camp and
+dat’s all.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“A very brave deed, sergeant,” said the General. “And
+I will immediately send out a squad of men to bring your
+prisoners into camp.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Old Soldier was ordered to take a squad of men
+and go after the prisoners, while the Doctor was sent to
+dress the bump on the head of the wild man that Gogo
+had knocked down. After a great deal of work the soldiers
+managed to pull the three wild men out of the bottle
+and when they were brought into camp they were securely
+tied to a strong blade of grass.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i075.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch17' class='c007'>Chapter Seventeen<br /> <br />THE DUNCE IN DISGRACE</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>“Why are you making such a fine camp here, General?”
+asked the Doctor, as he noticed that the
+Teenie Weenies continued to improve the camp. “Won’t
+we have to move on pretty soon if the wild men do not
+attack?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We’ll stay right here for some time,” answered the
+General, taking off his tiny sword and laying it on the
+table which stood in front of his tent. “We are within
+striking distance of the wild men’s village, so the aviator
+tells me, and we’ll use this camp for our base of operations.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“General,” said the Cook, saluting the commander of
+the Teenie Weenie army, “I beg your pardon, but there
+is something I must tell you.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“What is it, sir?” said the General, returning the
+Cook’s salute.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Why sir, there’s a thimble missing from among my
+cooking things. I put two beans to soak in it last night
+and when I went to look at them a little while ago the
+beans were lying on the ground and the thimble was
+gone.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“That’s most strange,” said the General; “I’ll have the
+Cowboy look into the matter and see if he can find out
+what has happened to the thimble.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Thank you, sir,” said the Cook, “I’m a little short of
+cooking pans and kettles and I’d like to have it back.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Cowboy was ordered to look for the lost thimble,
+but before he had fairly started the search, the thimble
+turned up in a most peculiar way. Down the main street
+of the camp towards the General’s tent marched the
+Dunce with the lost thimble over his head and followed
+by a laughing crowd of soldier.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“What’s the idea of this?” asked the General as the
+Dunce stopped before him.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Safety first,” answered the Dunce.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“What do you mean by safety first?” asked the General,
+trying hard to keep from laughing at the ridiculous
+sight.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“W-w-well, you s-s-see,” began the Dunce, “I thought
+this thimble would make a fine suit of armor, and protect
+me from the wild men’s arrows. I took it out back of camp,
+got some tools and cut a couple of holes for my arms to go
+through and another hole to see through—”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Yes, and spoiled a perfectly good thimble,” put in
+the General.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Jinks!” exclaimed the Dunce, “I never thought of
+that.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Of course you didn’t,” answered the General sternly.
+“You have a habit of doing your thinking afterwards,
+and that is a mighty bad habit.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Quite right! Quite right!” cried a field mouse, who had
+been hanging around the camp for a few days. “Quite
+right, I says. There’s always a time to think. One ought
+to do a heap of thinking before one acts, I says.”</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i078.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Yes, you’re right,” put in the General, glaring at the
+mouse, who was very talkative. “One ought to think a
+great deal and then he ought to say only about one half of
+what he thinks.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Words of wisdom! Words of wisdom!” cried the
+mouse, never dreaming the General’s rebuke was aimed at
+him, and he strolled down the camp street quite pleased
+with himself.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Now, Dunce,” said the General, “I’m going to try to
+see if I can help you do a little thinking.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Y-y-yes, s-s-s-sir,” answered the Dunce.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’m going to make you wear that thimble for the rest
+of the day and that ought to help you to remember that
+you have spoiled a perfectly good cooking pot, just because
+you didn’t happen to think.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>All day long the poor Dunce was forced to walk up
+and down in front of the General’s tent, wearing the
+heavy thimble. It was a warm day and the thimble grew
+quite hot in the sunshine, so his punishment was pretty
+hard, but there is no doubt it did him a great deal of good.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i079.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch18' class='c007'>Chapter Eighteen<br /> <br />CONSULTING AN ENGINEER</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>The General studied the map of the wild men’s island
+which the Turk had drawn, in the hope that he could
+figure out a way to attack the Saboes without storming
+their fort. In storming the fort, the General felt sure that
+many of his soldiers might be injured and he wished to
+rout the enemy with as little damage as possible.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I have it! I have it!” exclaimed the General one
+morning as he sat studying the tiny map. “We can hire
+a mole to tunnel under the wild men’s fort and then we
+can blow it up with a firecracker.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Bully!” shouted the Old Soldier. “And before they
+get over the surprise of the explosion we can charge
+through the destroyed fort into the village.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“That’s the idea,” smiled the General. “We’ll go over
+to-morrow and engage the old mole who lives down by
+the river.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Moles are great engineers,” said the Doctor, “and
+what they don’t know about underground digging isn’t
+worth knowing.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The next day the General and the Doctor, with an
+escort of four soldiers, set out on the journey to the mole’s
+home.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“S-s-say, what is a m-m-mole anyhow?” asked the
+Dunce as the little party marched along.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“A mole? Why, a mole—let’s see, a mole—why a
+mole is a mole,” answered Gogo.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ll tell you what a mole is like,” laughed the Doctor,
+who had overheard the Dunce’s question. “A mole is an
+animal almost the size of a rat and he lives under the
+ground. He has very small eyes and ears, and he very seldom
+comes out in the day time, for it is pretty hard for him
+to see in the bright sunlight. He has very short and powerful
+legs with which he can dig very fast. He lives on
+worms and grubs and roots, and he is usually very gruff
+and bad-tempered.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Presently the little party came to the place where the
+mole lived and the General ordered the soldiers to halt.
+They had stopped by the side of a steep bank and near
+the top was a hole under the roots of a tree, which was
+the front door of the mole’s home.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Dress up in line, men!” commanded the General,
+“and when Mr. Mole comes to the door of his house I want
+you all to present arms, for we will have to use the greatest
+diplomacy in order to engage this fellow.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General stepped up near the bank and called
+loudly several times into the hole and presently a long
+furry nose appeared in the opening.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, what do you mean by awakening honest people
+out of a sound sleep?” growled the mole. “What is it?
+What do you want?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I beg your pardon,” said the General as he lifted his
+hat and made a low bow; “I’m awfully sorry I disturbed
+your rest, but having heard of your reputation as an engineer
+I have come to beg your services for the Teenie
+Weenie army. We want to engage you to dig a trench
+for us.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ll work for four fat white grubs a day and not a
+grub less,” snapped the mole.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i082.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>“That’s quite satisfactory,” answered the General.
+“We are willing to pay whatever you ask, but I want you
+to know just what the work will be. We want you to dig
+a tunnel in the ground so we can explode a mine in it.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I don’t care a snap of my tail what kind of work it
+is; all I want is my pay,” growled the mole.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“When may we expect you?” asked the General.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“To-morrow at four o’clock, not a minute sooner or
+later,” answered the mole.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Shall we have breakfast for you?” asked the General.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Why, certainly! Why, certainly!” exclaimed the mole.
+“How in the name of angleworms do you expect me to
+work without food? What do you suppose I’m workin’
+for—pleasure?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We’ll have a couple of nice young grubs for you,” said
+the General politely, although he was quite disturbed by
+the mole’s ungentlemanly manner.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Two grubs and a couple of angleworms would make
+me work better,” suggested the mole.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“You shall have them,” answered the General stiffly.
+“Good day to you, sir.” Lifting his hat politely, he ordered
+the soldiers to march back to camp.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id005'>
+<img src='images/i083.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch19' class='c007'>Chapter Nineteen<br /> <br />THE OLD SOLDIER’S WAR MACHINE</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>At exactly four o’clock the next morning the mole
+came into camp, and as the General had promised,
+his breakfast was ready. After the mole had eaten his
+grubs, he reported for work. The General showed the
+mole just where he wanted the tunnel to run and immediately
+the old fellow set to work. He burrowed his nose
+down into the soft ground and then pushed the loosened
+earth back with his powerful fore claws. He worked wonderfully
+fast and in less than a minute he had entirely
+disappeared into the ground.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>All day long the mole worked, coming out only for a
+few minutes at noon to eat his lunch, and at half past five
+in the afternoon he again appeared to announce that the
+tunnel had been finished.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General sent the Sailor into the tunnel to measure
+it, for he wanted to be quite sure that it reached a point
+just under the wild men’s fort.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“It’s just exactly eight hundred and fifty-eight feet
+long,” announced the Sailor when he crawled out of the
+tunnel a few minutes later. “I could hear the wild men
+walking on the ground above, so it must stop right in the
+middle of the fort.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“’Course it does,” snapped the mole. “Don’t you suppose
+I know how to dig?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When the mole had been paid for his work, he slipped
+off into the night without ever even thanking the Teenie
+Weenies for his pay.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Queer old surly fellow,” said the General as he
+watched the awkward mole waddle off.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Yes, but you have to admit that he is a wonderful engineer,”
+observed the Old Soldier.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, gentlemen,” said the General turning to his officers,
+“we have got to move our lines forward. You see,
+we are about eight hundred and fifty feet from the wild
+men’s fort and it is quite necessary that trenches be built
+forward so we will not have too great a distance to charge
+when we explode the mine under the enemy’s fort.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The officers all agreed with the General and that very
+night several men were sent out, when it was quite dark,
+to start the work.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The little soldiers had gone but a short distance when
+they were seen by the wild men, who sent a shower of
+arrows at them, and Gogo was slightly scratched on the
+arm, while one of the wild men’s arrows splintered the
+Old Soldier’s wooden leg, so the General ordered the work
+stopped for the time being.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Old Soldier was quite an engineer and when he
+had whittled out a new wooden leg, he set to work trying
+to scheme out some way by which the men could dig
+the trenches without being hit by the wild men’s arrows.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I have it,” he cried after he had puzzled over the matter
+for a time. “We can make a big screen out of sticks,
+one that is quite arrow-proof.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“How are you going to move it?” asked the Turk.
+“It will be too heavy for the men to carry.”</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i086.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>“That will be easy,” smiled the Old Soldier. “There’s
+a spool of thread among our supplies and all we have to
+do is to remove the thread and—”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Use the spool as a sort of wheel to roll the screen
+on,” put in the Cook.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Right,” laughed the Old Soldier. “We can push it
+ahead of us on the spool and be quite safe from the wild
+men’s arrows.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General ordered the screen made and at once, under
+the watchful eye of the Old Soldier, the men set to
+work building it. In a remarkably short time the screen
+was finished and early the next morning the Old Soldier,
+with six chosen men, started to push it toward the wild
+men’s fort.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i087.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>As soon as the wild men saw the screen coming toward
+them, they let fly a shower of arrows, but they either
+stuck fast in the screen or flew harmlessly over the soldier’s
+heads.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Great Guns!” cried the Old Soldier when the little
+party had pushed the screen quite a ways toward the wild
+men’s fort. “We forgot to bring along the picks and
+shovels.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ll get ’em, Captain,” said the Dunce, saluting
+the Old Soldier and hardly waiting for the officer’s permission,
+the Dunce ran for the trench which they had
+just left, as fast as his legs would carry him.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Dunce grabbed up three picks and with the help
+of the Chinaman who volunteered to go along, the two
+brave Teenie Weenies ran for the screen amid the flying
+arrows which whizzed all about them.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>All day long the men worked hard, pulling the screen
+along as they dug back toward the Teenie Weenie trench,
+and at night, six other soldiers took up the work where the
+rest left off. Several days of hard labor finished the work
+and not one Teenie Weenie had been shot, thanks to the
+Old Soldier’s screen.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i088.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch20' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty<br /> <br />THE DUNCE LOOKS FOR EXCITEMENT</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>From the new trenches the Teenie Weenies could see
+the wild men’s fort plainly. The little soldiers had
+to be very careful, however, for every time they showed
+themselves the wild men would let fly a shower of arrows.
+The soldiers thought it great fun to put their hats on
+sticks and push them out in sight of the wild men. At first
+this brought a tremendous number of arrows, but finally
+the wild men caught onto the trick and only an occasional
+arrow would fly at the exposed hat.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The men took turns guarding the front trenches. It was
+very tiresome work sitting in the narrow ditch waiting
+for something to happen and most of the soldiers would
+have welcomed the order to storm the wild men’s fort.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I can’t see why the General doesn’t get busy and
+take the fort,” growled the Scotchman one afternoon. Several
+of the men, who were off duty, were lying in a mossy
+place under some big ferns, discussing the matter.
+“We’ve got everything ready for the attack, the men are
+more than anxious to go into action and we could lick
+the stuffin’ out of the Saboes.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Keep cool, Scotty; we’ll get a chance soon enough,”
+said the Turk, who was very quiet and always took things
+calmly. “The General knows what he’s about and when
+he gets his plans ready, we’ll get all the excitement we
+want.”</p>
+
+<div  class='figleft id008'>
+<img src='images/i090.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+<p class='c004'>“Excitement!” exclaimed the Dunce.
+“That’s me. I’ve got to have some excitement;
+I’m sick and tired of sittin’
+around here without anything doin’.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Let’s get our guns and go out and
+see if we can’t shoot some dragon flies or
+mosquitoes,” suggested the Sailor.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Nah, that ain’t dangerous enough,”
+answered the Dunce. “I want to do
+something that will give me a thrill,” and
+getting up he slowly walked towards the
+tall grass near the Teenie Weenie camp.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General had given orders that
+none of the soldiers should leave camp,
+for the grass was so tangled and thick
+that it would be an easy thing to get lost
+and, besides, the savage wild men might
+be hiding behind the thick stalks of
+grass.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Jinks!” thought the Dunce as he
+peered into the dense grass, “the General
+wouldn’t scold me if I happened to
+stroll out there and capture a wild man.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>After some minutes of thought, the
+Dunce hurried to his tent, got his gun
+and sneaked unseen out of camp into the
+dark grass. He stumbled along for some
+time without making much headway, for the stalks of
+grass grew close together and the dead leaves tangled
+about his feet at almost every step. Presently he came to an
+open spot near the edge of the island, where he found
+walking much easier, but he had gone only a short distance
+when he suddenly saw four wild men ahead of him.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Throw up your hands—you’re surrounded!” shouted
+the Dunce, pointing his gun towards them.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The wild men, not understanding the Teenie Weenie
+language, started running towards the Dunce with loud
+yells.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The poor Dunce was so badly frightened he forgot to
+fire his gun and turning about he ran as fast as his short
+legs could carry him towards the Teenie Weenie camp.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The army aviator, who happened to be scouting above
+the shore of the island, saw the Dunce being chased by
+the wild men.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Quick!” he shouted to the bird on which he flew.
+“Fly just as close as you can to the Dunce and I’ll grab
+him as we sail by.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The bird flew straight for the ground and holding
+tight to its neck, the aviator grabbed the Dunce by the
+collar and snatched him from the very hands of the
+wild men.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Turk pulled the frightened Dunce up on the
+bird’s back and a few minutes later they landed safely
+in the Teenie Weenie camp.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, sir,” said the General when he had heard the
+Turk’s story of the rescue, “what were you doing outside
+the camp without permission to go out?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I-I-I-I j-j-just wanted s-s-some excitement and I-I-I-I
+thought I’d go out and s-s-see if I-I-I couldn’t capture a
+wild man,” stammered the frightened Dunce.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, did you capture any of them?” asked the General
+with a wink at the Old Soldier.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“W-w-w-well, I-I surrounded f-f-four of ’em, but they
+wouldn’t stay surrounded and they started to chase me,
+so I-I-I had to r-r-run.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, did you get any excitement?” smiled the
+General.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Oh, yes, sir, I-I-I got more than I-I-I was looking for.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, sir,” said the General, “I hope you got enough
+excitement to last you for a long time. You are guilty of
+an act of leaving camp without permission and I find it
+necessary to place you under arrest.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The poor Dunce was marched off between four soldiers
+to the tiny guard house, where he was left to think
+over his disobedience.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i092.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div  class='figcenter id014'>
+<img src='images/i093.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><span class='color_blue'><span class='sc'>The army aviator snatches the Dunce from the hands of the Wild Men.</span>—<i>Chapter Twenty.</i></span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch21' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty-One<br /> <br />THE SCOUTS HAVE A NARROW ESCAPE</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>“General, the men are getting restless. They want
+to get into action and it seems to me that we ought
+to hurry our plans for the attack,” said the Old Soldier.
+The two little officers were sitting at the tiny table in front
+of the General’s tent.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Yes, I believe you’re right,” answered the General
+thoughtfully. “The plans for the attack are almost ready,
+but I would like to get some more information about the
+wild men. I’d like to know just how many are guarding
+the fort, what sort of arms they have and a lot of other
+details. The Turk has been able to get much valuable
+information, but the grass is so tall around the fort that
+he has not been able to get very near in the airplane, so
+I’m afraid I’ll have to send the scouts out for the facts I
+want.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“That’s mighty dangerous,” said the Old Soldier,
+stroking his beard. “The jungle is full of the Saboes—they
+are swarming all through the grass, thicker than
+ants on a chocolate drop.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Yes, I know it’s dangerous, but I believe the Cowboy
+and the Indian can get through unseen and bring back
+the information I want,” the General said. “Either one
+of the little fellows is at home in the woods and grass.
+They are both pastmasters in covering up their tracks.
+Why, I believe the Indian could walk through a lady’s
+powder box without ever leaving a single track,” and the
+General said it so earnestly there was no doubt but that
+he spoke the truth.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Turning to the guard that stood near his tent, the
+General ordered him to bring the Indian and the Cowboy.
+“Tell them it is important and that I wish them to
+report at once.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>In a few minutes the two scouts appeared and, clicking
+their tiny heels together, they saluted in the most
+approved military fashion.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“You sent for us, sir?” said the Cowboy.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Yes,” answered the General, looking seriously at the
+sturdy little men. “I have a piece of work for you to do.
+First I want to tell you that it is mighty risky—in fact, it
+is extremely dangerous. I will not send you unless you
+are willing to go—you shall choose.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We are ready to go,” answered the little scouts
+quietly, and their loyalty touched the General greatly.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I want you to go to the wild men’s fort and get all
+the information you can,” said the General. “Find out
+how many men they have, what sort of weapons they use,
+note the condition of their fort and get some idea of the
+ground beyond the fort. Get all the facts you can and
+report to me as soon as possible.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Yes, sir,” answered the scouts and, saluting, they hurried
+to their tent, where they buckled on their tiny pistols.
+Next they each secured a supply of dried minnow
+and half a boiled bean, which they stuffed into their
+pockets.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>They slipped quietly out of camp and after a long and
+tiresome trip they finally drew near to the wild men’s
+fort. They could hear the voices of the wild men now and
+then and the two Teenie Weenies were forced to steal
+along with the greatest care. Presently they crawled up
+to a place quite near the fort where they could see the
+wild men every now and then through the long grass.
+The scouts watched the wild men for several hours and it
+was quite late before the little fellows could find a chance
+to crawl away safely and unseen.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Several times on their way back to the Teenie Weenie
+camp the scouts were forced to hide under leaves and dry
+grass to keep from being discovered, and once they had
+to lie for almost an hour in a hollow stick, as several wild
+men stopped near them to rest.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“It be heap much dark soon,” grunted the Indian as
+he peered through the grass at the sky.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We can never get back to camp before night and we
+couldn’t possibly get through this jungle in the dark, so
+we’ve got to find some place to spend the night,” whispered
+the Cowboy.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The two Teenie Weenies found a deserted bird’s nest
+in a bush near by, and, climbing up the bush, they soon
+made themselves comfortable for the night.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i098.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>Early in the morning the little scouts were awakened
+by voices, and looking over the edge of the nest, they saw
+several wild men coming towards the bush. The wild men
+stopped beneath the bush, where they soon made a fire
+and cooked pieces of frog ham for their breakfast.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The two Teenie Weenies had eaten what little food
+they had brought with them the day before and as they
+smelled the delicious meat cooking it made them as hungry
+as bears. There were too many of the Saboes for the
+two scouts to fight, so they could do nothing but lie quiet
+until the wild men had gone. In a short time the wild men
+finished their breakfast and after talking in their strange
+language for a few minutes they hurried away.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When the wild men had disappeared into the jungle of
+tall grass near by, the two scouts carefully climbed out of
+the nest and set off in the direction of the Teenie Weenie
+camp. Several times they had to hide behind sticks and
+leaves when the wild men passed near them, and once,
+three of the savage little fellows came so close to the spot
+where the scouts lay hidden that they thought they would
+surely be discovered. It was almost evening before the
+Cowboy and the Indian reached camp and the little fellows
+reported at once to the General. They gave the
+Commander of the Teenie Weenie army such valuable
+news that he at once called in his staff for a council of war.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The little officers talked for a long time and when they
+finally came out of the General’s tent, it was very plain to
+see that something was about to happen. Officers dashed
+about the camp giving orders, the Doctor and the two
+nurses busied themselves around the tiny hospital, while
+Paddy Pinn spent much time with his Teenie Weenie
+cannon.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Three of the soldiers carried two big firecrackers into
+the tunnel the mole had made. In fact, everyone was busy
+and the whole camp teemed with excitement, wondering
+as to what was to happen next.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i100.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch22' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty-Two<br /> <br />THE BATTLE</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>Orders had been given to attack the wild men in
+the morning and most of the Teenie Weenie soldiers
+slept very little during the night. At daylight a thimbleful
+of hot cocoa and a supply of bread was brought into
+the front trenches and while the little soldiers ate, the
+artillery kept up a heavy fire on the wild men’s fort.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>At last the order was given to charge and the excited
+Teenie Weenies climbed out of their trenches and dashed
+for the fort.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Although the soldiers’ tiny knees knocked together
+and their teeth chattered with fright,
+they went into battle with great
+eagerness, cheered by the voices of
+several meadow mice and bugs, who
+stood out of range of the wild men’s
+arrows.</p>
+
+<div  class='figleft id008'>
+<img src='images/i101.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>It was a great victory. Probably
+the history of the battle can be better
+told by one who took part in it, so we
+shall hear the story from a letter written
+by Mr. Lover to his wife immediately
+after the battle. The tiny letter
+was written on a piece of very thin birch bark, about half
+the size of a postage stamp, but if you could see it under
+a powerful microscope you would read it, word for
+word, just as it appears on this page.</p>
+
+<p class='c011'>My dear Bab:</p>
+<p class='c013'>As the Indian is carrying the official news of the battle
+back to Shoehurst, you will know before you open this letter
+that we have won. It was wonderful and I will tell you all
+about it from the very first. The wild men’s fort, which was
+made of strong sticks, lay in a narrow path guarding the only
+open road to the village, where the Lady of Fashion and Poet
+are held prisoners. In order to get to the village we had to
+capture the fort. We heard the night before that we were to
+storm the fort in the morning and believe me, we didn’t sleep
+much; that is, I didn’t. I was as nervous as a cat in a dog
+house.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>Early in the morning the aviator flew over the fort and
+dropped pepper bombs. These bombs are made out of red
+pepper tied up in thin pieces of tissue paper and when they
+hit the ground they break and scatter the pepper all around.
+While the wild men were sneezing from the effects of the
+pepper, the artillery opened up and sent a lot of shot into
+the fort.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>Next, a big mine we had made under the fort was exploded.
+There were two big firecrackers in it and, say, you
+ought to have seen the sticks fly up in the air when that mine
+went off! Right after the mine explosion we were ordered
+to charge and we jumped out of the trenches and started on
+the run for the fort.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id015'>
+<img src='images/i103.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><span class='color_blue'><span class='sc'>The Teenie Weenie Army Drives the Wild Men from their WRECKED FORT.</span>—<i>Chapter Twenty-two.</i></span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c013'>We were almost halfway there when the Sailor, who was
+carrying the flag, dropped with an arrow in his chest. The
+Dunce caught up the fallen flag and putting his hat on top of
+the staff, he yelled for us to follow. Everybody cheered, for
+we didn’t think the Dunce had enough nerve to do such a
+brave thing.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>The fort was badly wrecked by the explosion, so it wasn’t
+hard to climb over it to get at the wild men. Most of the
+Saboes were so scared they never tried to fight, but a few of
+them stood their ground. They were quickly subdued, however.
+We captured fourteen men; five of them are wounded,
+but the Doctor has them in the hospital and he’ll fix them
+up all right.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>Four of our men were wounded, but the Sailor is the
+only one who was badly hurt. The Doctor says that he will
+pull through all right.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>We wanted to attack the wild men’s village, but the General
+wouldn’t let us. He says we have got to take care of
+the wounded and make our lines safe before we can go farther.
+Some of the men seem to think that there will be very
+little fight left in the wild men, for they were pretty well
+scared by our attack. The Scotchman and I are doing
+guard duty; we have to guard the prisoners. We are using
+an old bottle for a prison and it certainly makes a good one;
+if we keep on getting prisoners we’ll soon have a bottleful.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>I do hope the General follows up the victory and goes
+right after these wild men, so we can end this war, for I
+want to get home to you and the children.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>Well, I’ll have to stop now as the Indian is about ready
+to start for Shoehurst. Tell the twins I have a nice string
+of blackberry seed beads for each of them and give them each
+a kiss for me.</p>
+<p class='c018'>Affectionately,</p>
+<p class='c014'>Your Husband.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>P. S.: The Cook and the Chinaman have just brought
+up a pot of cocoa and four hot beans! Hurrah! we’re going
+to have a feast.</p>
+<div class='c016'>Hubby.</div>
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch23' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty-Three<br /> <br />THE RED CROSS</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>There was much confusion after the battle, for so
+many things had to be done, and done quickly.
+The lines had to be advanced and made safe against attack
+by the wild men. The prisoners had to be carefully
+guarded until they could be put into the grape juice bottle
+which was being used as a prison.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Then, there were the wounded. Both Teenie Weenies
+and wild men had to be given the best of care. Just as soon
+as the battle was over, the injured were gathered up and
+carried tenderly to the Red Cross field hospital, where
+the Doctor and his two little nurses dressed their wounds.
+The Clown and the Policeman carried the wounded into
+the hospital on tiny stretchers and just as soon as the
+injured little fellows had medical care, they were put into
+clean beds. At first the injured wild men were much
+frightened, but when they were handled so tenderly by
+the Doctor and his lovely nurses, they became quite
+contented.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Doctor’s official report to the General gives the
+best idea of the work of the Red Cross after the battle,
+and it is printed here, word for word, from that tiny
+document.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i107.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c019'>
+    <div><span class='large'>TEENIE WEENIE RED CROSS FIELD HOSPITAL</span></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c013'>Commander in Chief,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Report No. 14.</p>
+<p class='c020'>Teenie Weenie Army.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>Sir: I herein give to you a full detailed report of the
+Red Cross work after the battle of Sabo:</p>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c021'>
+    <div><b>Teenie Weenies Injured</b></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c013'>Sailor—Shot in the right breast with arrow, which
+was removed after a hard operation, as the point had
+broken off between the third and fourth ribs. Eleven
+stitches taken in wound. Patient in bad shape but
+will recover.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>Dunce—Shot in hand; slight wound; will be all
+right in few days.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>Gogo—Two small wounds in right leg and left arm.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>Cowboy—Scratch on cheek from spear thrust.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i108.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c021'>
+    <div><b>Wild Men Injured</b></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c013'>No. 1—Serious wound in neck from rifle bullet; removed
+bullet after much work; patient in bad shape.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>No. 2—Bad bayonet wound in side; will recover.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>No. 3—Piece of shell removed from back; nineteen
+stitches taken in wound; will get well.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>No. 4—Painful scalp wound from being hit on head with
+butt of gun; five stitches taken in wound.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>No. 5—Shot in shoulder; not dangerous.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>I wish to bring to your notice the good work of my staff.
+I commend them for their earnest and skillful help in taking
+care of the wounded. The work of bringing in the wounded
+was promptly done by the Policeman and the Clown in a manner
+that calls for the highest praise.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>Tess Bone and Sally Guff, my two excellent nurses, were
+of the greatest service. Their tenderness in handling the injured
+was of the highest order.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>I wish also to bring to your notice the kindness of Peter
+Meadowlark and Bouncing Ben, the jumping mouse. Peter
+Meadowlark did much towards keeping the patients in a good
+frame of mind by his daily songs. Every day he came to the
+hospital and sang for the wounded.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>Bouncing Ben kept the sick laughing for hours by his
+funny handsprings and somersaults. I owe much to these
+two kind-hearted fellows for the good condition of my patients.</p>
+<p class='c022'>Sincerely yours,</p>
+<p class='c018'>Surgeon General,</p>
+<p class='c014'>Teenie Weenie Army.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id016'>
+<img src='images/i109.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch24' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty-Four<br /> <br />LET THERE BE PEACE</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>After the battle the front lines were moved quite a
+distance towards the center of the island, where
+the wild men’s village stood. A strong breastwork of
+sticks and grass was built and a most careful watch was
+kept at all times. Nothing was seen of the wild men
+except shadowy forms that every now and then dodged
+about among the stalks of big grass. They were surely
+in the tall grass, for the savage little fellows could slip
+about in the jungle almost unseen.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>It was quite certain that the General intended to move
+again in a short time, for everything was made ready
+for another battle.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>One morning the Scotchman, who was in the front
+lines, happened to see a wild man crawling along on his
+stomach towards a stick that lay in front of the Teenie
+Weenie breastwork. The tiny soldier raised his gun and
+waited, thinking the wild men were about to charge, but
+instead a blade of grass appeared above the stick and to
+it was tied a white rag.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Jinks!” exclaimed the Scotchman, lowering his gun,
+“the wild men are showing a flag of truce.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Hold your fire, men!” shouted the Cowboy, who
+was in charge of the Teenie Weenie fort at the time.
+“They are sending out a flag of truce.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Presently the wild man crawled out from behind the
+stick and timidly made his way toward the Teenie
+Weenies.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“What do you want?” asked the Cowboy, peering
+over the top of the fort.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Wap gee goo mah be gum,” answered the wild man
+as he approached the Teenie Weenies. Of course none
+of them could understand a word of this.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id017'>
+<img src='images/i111.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Talk English, you goof,” cried the Cowboy. “I
+can’t understand that kind of talk.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The wild man carried a piece of folded birch bark in
+his hand and when he reached the fort he handed it over
+to the Cowboy. It was addressed to the General, and the
+Cowboy at once sent the note to him.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When the note was delivered to the General, he found
+that it was from the Queen of the wild men, written by
+the Poet, and this is what he read:</p>
+<p class='c011'>&nbsp;&nbsp;Commander in Chief,
+Teenie Weenie Army.
+My dear General:</p>
+<p class='c013'>Her Royal Highness, Mooie, Queen of the wild men, sends
+greetings. Her Highness wishes to talk over terms of peace
+with you and suggests that you and your staff meet her at the
+stream which crosses the path halfway between the Sabo village
+and your camp. Her Highness awaits your pleasure and
+asks Your Excellency to set a date for the meeting.</p>
+<p class='c018'>Respectfully yours</p>
+<p class='c014'>RUFUS RHYME.</p>
+
+<p class='c013'>P. S.—Although the Lady of Fashion and I have been
+closely guarded since we have been prisoners, we have been
+very well treated and I ask that you take this into consideration
+when you arrange peace terms.</p>
+<p class='c018'>R. R.</p>
+
+<p class='c017'>The General answered the note at once, making
+arrangements to meet the Queen on the following day.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The next day at the appointed time the General, the
+Old Soldier and a guard of eight soldiers marched off to
+the meeting place, where they found the Queen awaiting
+them.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Queen sat on her favorite turtle and she had with
+her several of her warriors and the Poet.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i113.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>As the Teenie Weenies drew near, the Queen and her
+followers raised their left hands above their heads, which
+is the Sabo custom when friends meet. The Queen was
+the first to speak, and the Poet, who had learned the Sabo
+language while he was held prisoner, translated her
+words to the Teenie Weenies as follows:</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“O, great chief of the thunder wagon (the name, “Men
+of the Thunder Wagon,” was given to the Teenie Weenies
+on account of the cannon which the wild men said
+sounded like thunder), we have come here to ask for
+peace. We do not wish to fight; we ask only for the liberty
+of our brothers whom you hold prisoners. Give us
+back our brothers and we will return the Lady of Fashion
+and the Poet to you. We will also give you two hundred
+smoked frog hams for our brothers’ return.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“O queen of beauty and ruler of all the Saboes,” said
+the General when the Poet had finished, “we do not wish
+to fight, and we ask only for the return of our friends. For
+their safe return we will free your brothers. The hams
+you have offered we could not think of taking, for we took
+up arms against you, not for gain, but only for the freedom
+of the Lady of Fashion and the Poet.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Queen was greatly pleased at the General’s words
+and arrangements were made for the exchange of the prisoners.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>That same day all the wild men, except the ones who
+were in the hospital and who were too sick to leave, were
+set free.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i115.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><span class='color_blue'><span class='sc'>The General and the Queen of the Wild Men at the Peace Dance.</span>—<i>Chapter Twenty-five.</i></span></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>They were taken, under guard of several soldiers, to
+the stream where the General had met the Queen. The
+Lady of Fashion and the Poet were waiting for them and
+the Teenie Weenie soldiers gave three mighty cheers
+when they saw their friends. The prisoners were exchanged
+and the Lady of Fashion and the Poet were
+taken to the Teenie Weenie camp, where they were
+given a royal welcome.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Lady of Fashion was so happy to be again among
+her friends that she did a very ladylike thing—she cried.
+The nurses cried and several of the men were seen to blow
+their tiny noses and blink their eyes.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Oh, I’m so happy to be safe with you all again,”
+cried the Lady of Fashion as she hugged the General for
+the tenth time. “I don’t know what those nasty wild men
+captured us for, we never could find out, but I will say for
+them that they were very good to us.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, we are mighty glad to have you with us again,”
+said the General. “And it’s through the loyalty of every
+soldier in our army that your rescue has been accomplished.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I know it. I know it,” cried the little lady, and she
+hugged every single man in the army except the Chinaman,
+who was so embarrassed that he ran off and hid in a
+hollow log for nearly an hour.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The two nurses took the Lady of Fashion to their
+tent, where she washed until she was as clean as a drop
+of dew.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>That night the army gathered around a roaring bonfire
+and eagerly listened to the Poet while he told them
+how he and the Lady of Fashion had spent their time
+as prisoners of the wild men. When he had finished, the
+little people sang songs, told stories and gossiped until
+after midnight, when the General ordered everyone to
+bed.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“It’s so nice to sleep in a clean, honest-to-goodness
+bed again,” said the Lady of Fashion when she crawled
+into one of the tiny cots in the nurses’ tent, but she didn’t
+sleep a great deal, for the three little women had so
+much to talk about. They whispered and giggled until
+early morning.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i118.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch25' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty-Five<br /> <br />THE PEACE DANCE</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>“Well, folks,” announced the General the next
+morning as he sat down to breakfast with several
+of his officers, the Lady of Fashion and the Poet, “we
+must make ready for the march home. We have a long
+journey ahead of us and we must get started as soon as
+possible.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I don’t see how we can,” answered the Doctor, who
+was helping himself to a piece of frog ham. “The
+Sailor is in no condition to be moved and, besides, I still
+have a couple of the wild men on my hands, who are
+in such shape I can’t leave them for a few days.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“That’s so! That’s so!” exclaimed the General. “Of
+course we’ll have to stay until our duty is done.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“My patients are all doing well and I don’t see why
+we won’t be able to get away in five or six days,” said
+the Doctor.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The little soldiers were greatly disappointed when
+they heard that the army would not start immediately
+for home, for now that the war was over they were all
+anxious to return. However, they made the best of their
+time by fishing, swimming and playing games.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>One morning a sentinel came to the General’s tent,
+followed by one of the wild men.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“This fellow has a message for you,” said the sentinel
+pointing to the wild man, who held a piece of folded
+birch bark in his hand. “There are about twenty-five
+more of ’em waiting out beyond our lines and they’ve
+each got a big bundle all wrapped up in leaves.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General opened the note which the wild man
+handed him, but when he found it was written in the
+Sabo language he sent for the Poet.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“You’ll have to translate this gibberish for me,” said
+the General when the Poet appeared. “It’s too much
+for me.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Poet carefully read the note and then repeated
+it to the General.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“It’s from the Queen and she is sending you greetings
+and some presents,” said the Poet. “She also invites
+you to the great Dance of Peace and Plenty. This
+is the dance the wild men dance whenever they make
+peace with their enemies. You must go to the dance,
+for that is the way the wild men have of showing that
+they want to be friendly.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“All right,” answered the General; “tell her I’ll come.
+Thank her for the presents and give her my regards.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>A number of soldiers were sent out to bring in the
+presents the Queen had sent and when they were unwrapped
+the little people were surprised to find a number
+of fat frog hams, a quantity of wild rice, a large jar
+of fruit paste made out of wild berries, many nut meats
+and sweet seeds.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We ought to send a present to the Queen in return
+for all this food,” said the General. “What shall we send
+her?”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Send her that thimble the Dunce ruined trying to
+make a suit of armor,” answered the Poet, who had heard
+the story of the Dunce’s armor.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Not that old thimble!” exclaimed the General.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Sure,” laughed the Poet. “She will think that it is
+wonderful!”</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i121.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>So the thimble was sent to the Queen, who prized it
+more than anything else she owned.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>On the appointed day the General set off for the
+dance with a number of the Teenie Weenies, and as they
+drew near the village they were met by a body of wild
+men who had been sent out as a guard of honor to escort
+the General into the village. He was led to a spot beneath
+a big bush where the Queen sat cross-legged on a wonderfully
+soft piece of cloth which had been thrown on
+the ground. Over her head hung another cloth which
+was fastened at the four corners to long poles held in the
+hands of four wild men.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>A great many wild men and women stood about an
+open spot under the bush, which had been swept until
+it was as clean as a pin. Many children ran about the
+place, some of them climbing onto the grass houses and
+into the trees. On the edge of the crowd stood several
+small animals, and some birds were perched in the bush
+overhead.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General made a low bow to the Queen and when
+she motioned for him to sit by her side, he sat down on
+the soft cloth. The Queen and the General talked for
+some time through the Poet, who translated for them.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Presently the Queen gave a command to one of her
+warriors and instantly several men, who were sitting on
+the ground in front of the Queen, began to beat on
+drums. The drums were made out of a piece of hollow
+reed. The ends were covered with snake skin and they
+made a very pretty, mellow sound. Another man beat
+on a piece of wood which had been fixed to a split reed,
+while three or four women beat paddles together in
+time with the music.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Instantly a number of voices broke into a loud song
+from behind a house near by and presently the dancers
+came hopping and prancing into the cleared spot
+before the Queen. First came a warrior with a long
+spear and when he danced directly in front of the Queen
+he broke the spear in two over his knee. Next came a
+man with a queer seed pod over his head and in one
+hand he carried a whip with which he struck the warrior
+every now and then. In the other hand he carried
+a dried seed pod which rattled loudly in time with the
+song. The next dancer wore a frog’s head and hopped
+in time with the music, much after the fashion of a frog.
+Several girls followed the frog man, carrying plates of
+smoked frog ham and rice cakes.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“The first man in the dance,” explained the Poet to
+the General, “is the Spirit of War. He broke the spear
+to show you that the war was over and the next man
+rattled the seed pod and struck him with the whip to
+scare him away, which means that the wild men are
+through with war and wish to get rid of the War Spirit.
+The frog man represents the frog meat which the wild
+men eat, and his funny dance means that good times are
+coming, for you see the pretty girls follow with plates
+of rice cakes and meat.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The dancers performed for several minutes and then
+the man with the whip and rattle chased the Spirit of
+War over the hill out of sight, which meant that the
+Spirit of War was gone for good.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>After the dance a great fire was built and when a
+heap of hot ashes had burned, the wild men wrapped
+several frog hams in sassafras leaves and put them into
+the hot bed of ashes to roast. When the hams were cooked
+they were cut into slices and served to the Teenie Weenies
+and the wild men. Wonderfully delicious rice cakes
+were also served and the Teenie Weenies ate until they
+were quite filled. The greedy Dunce ate so much he
+became quite ill and had to be carried back to the Teenie
+Weenie camp, where the Doctor was kept busy most
+of the night putting heated buttons on his aching
+tummy, until the pain was gone.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id012'>
+<img src='images/i124.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch26' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty-Six<br /> <br />HOME</h2>
+</div>
+<div class='lg-container-b c023'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'>Put a bean on to boil, Mr. Cook!</div>
+      <div class='line'>Put a bean on to boil, Mr. Cook!</div>
+      <div class='line in2'>For an army, it must eat</div>
+      <div class='line in2'>And rest its weary feet;</div>
+      <div class='line'>So put on a bean, Mr. Cook!</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c017'>The Teenie Weenie soldiers sang this song as they
+sat about their tiny camp fire one evening shortly
+after the peace dance. They were all happy, for they
+were to start for home in the morning. The Sailor was
+now well enough to stand the long trip and that was all
+that had been holding them back.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“He can stand the trip,” the Doctor said, “if he is carried
+in some way that will not jolt him. He was badly
+wounded and I wouldn’t care to have him ride in one
+of the army wagons, as they are much too rough.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We can make a litter and get two mice to carry it,”
+suggested Tess Bone.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“That’s a good idea,” said the Doctor. “He will rest
+that way in fine shape.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The Turk and the Old Soldier agreed to make the
+litter and in a short time they had built such a cozy one
+the Sailor was quite pleased with it.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Crickety!” exclaimed the Dunce when he saw the litter,
+“I wish I was wounded so I could ride in that instead
+of walkin’ all the way home.”</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i126.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>The army wagons were loaded and early in the morning
+the little army began the long journey home. First
+the cannon and then the baggage and wagons had to
+be moved across the river on the raft. It took the little
+people all day to move across the river, for many trips
+had to be made with the clumsy raft. But at the end of
+the day not a single Teenie Weenie was left on Sabo
+Island.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>As Queen Mooie had given the Teenie Weenies so
+many presents of frog hams, rice cakes, delicious seeds
+and many hickory nut meats, the little people were well
+supplied with good food. Every evening after the day’s
+march the happy little army ate their meal gathered
+around a glowing camp fire. They laughed and joked,
+sang songs, told stories and gossiped with the many
+birds and animals of the woods who gathered about the
+camp fire.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Often the Teenie Weenies listened to a strange tale of
+the forest, told by some owl or chipmunk, and quite
+often the birds sang to them.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>One evening a wicked old weasel came prowling
+around the camp. The little folks were quite alarmed
+about it, for the old fellow hung around for a long time.
+They could see his wicked green eyes shining in the
+light from the camp fire and when the General asked
+him what he wanted, he never answered. At last the
+General told several of the soldiers to fire off their rifles.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Shoot in the air over his head and give him a good
+scare,” ordered the General. “I think that will fix him.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>At the first sound of the guns the weasel quickly disappeared
+into the night and nothing more was seen of
+him, although the men kept a mighty close watch for
+several days.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When the army came to the place where they had
+built the bridge, they found the squirrel whom they had
+hired to guard it, on duty.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, here I am,” shouted the squirrel. “And here is
+the bridge just as you left it.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“You have done your duty well,” said the General,
+and he ordered the Cook to pay the squirrel the ten sunflower
+seeds and the hickory nuts which had been promised
+him.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, I always believe in doin’ my duty,” said the
+squirrel. “If I agree to do a thing I always stick to my
+word—I’d rather lose every whisker I’ve got than go
+back on my word.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>A bluejay who was sitting in a bush near by snickered
+and the squirrel gave him a nasty look. The Teenie
+Weenies thought for a minute that there might be
+a quarrel, but the bluejay flew off, so they felt much
+easier.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>After a pleasant talk with the squirrel, the General
+ordered the army to march on and as long as the Teenie
+Weenies were in sight the squirrel waved to them
+from the top of an old stump.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The trip seemed to agree with the Sailor. He grew
+stronger and stronger under the watchful eye of the Doctor
+and the two dainty nurses. He was fed on broth and
+a tiny bit of poached bird’s egg each day, and as the
+army drew near home he was almost strong enough to
+walk.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>One day the Teenie Weenies were surprised to hear
+a bird shout to them from a bush over their heads and
+when they looked up they saw it was Tilly Titter, the
+English Sparrow—an old and trusted friend.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Of course the General ordered a halt, while the men
+gathered around the sparrow and asked many questions.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“How are the twins?” asked Mr. Lover.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Fine! Just fine!” cried the bird. “I was over to the
+village yesterday and they were playin’ foot ball with
+a gooseberry. They are as husky as a caterpillar in a
+mulberry bush. Your wife is as fat as butter; I’ll bet she
+has gained half an ounce since you left her.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>After the Teenie Weenies had learned all the news
+from home the General gave a message to Tilly and
+asked her to deliver it to the Teenie Weenie village.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“You can just bet your last fish worm I’ll carry that
+message as quick as I can,” said the bird. “Everyone in
+the village will be tickled to death to hear that you are
+so near home. Grandpa will be so ’appy ’e’ll shout
+’imself ’oarse.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Spreading her wings, Tilly Titter flew into the air and
+quickly disappeared in the direction of the Teenie Weenie
+village.</p>
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c005' />
+</div>
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 id='ch27' class='c007'>Chapter Twenty-seven<br /> <br />THE GRAND REVIEW</h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>Tilly Titter flew as she never flew
+before and in a short time she
+landed on the ground beside the shoe
+house, her feathers all ruffled up with
+excitement.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ve got news,” she shouted, as the
+little women gathered about her. “I’ve
+just come from the General
+and the army will be home
+in about three days.”</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i130.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Is my husband well?”
+shouted Mrs. Lover.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“He’s as healthy as a
+dandelion and as pink as a rose bud,” answered Tilly.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“How’s the Poet and the Lady of Fashion?” asked
+Grandpa.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well and ’appy,” cried Tilly. “As I was a sayin’,
+the army will be ’ome in about three days. The General
+said to tell you that they would arrive on Friday afternoon
+if everthing goes well. He says for you to have a
+good supper ready for the boys and to have plenty, for
+they will be as hungry as young robins.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Is the Sailor getting along nicely?” asked Miss Guff.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Fine as a fiddle! Fine as a fiddle!” answered the
+sparrow. “Wants to walk, ’e’s feelin’ so well, but the Doctor
+makes ’im stay in the litter and ride.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, we have got to get busy and do somethin’ for
+the boys,” cried Grandpa. “We’ve got to give ’em a big
+feed and decorate the place with flags and show ’em
+we’re glad to see ’em.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“We’ll get up a grand supper for them,” cried Mrs.
+Lover, “and we’ll have a dance afterwards.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ll bring over a big chunk of cheese,” cried the
+mouse that had joined the crowd.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ll get some fat worms for the supper,” cried Tilly,
+and instantly she blushed a deep brown. “Oh, I forget
+you don’t eat worms. Well, I’ll get some sunflower seeds.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ll donate a few nuts,” said Nick, the squirrel, who
+had been hoping for a chance to speak.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Oh, I forgot to say that the General said ’e would
+come in ahead of the army so ’e could review them as
+they marched into the village,” cried Tilly.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“He’s going to review the troops, did you say?” asked
+Grandpa, who was hard of hearing.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Yes!” shouted Tilly, right into the old gentleman’s
+ear. “The General is goin’ to review the army.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Well, we got to get a reviewing stand ready for him,”
+cried Grandpa.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“I’ll help,” shouted the mouse, “and I’ll get some mice
+to help, too.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“All right, get ’em!” cried Grandpa. “The sooner we
+get to work the better it will be.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>In a short time the Teenie Weenies were as busy as
+bees in a clover field. The little women set to work cooking
+and baking. They made cakes and cookies by the
+thimble full. They made ginger cookies, nut cookies,
+chocolate cake, fruit cake and half an English walnut full
+of doughnuts, besides all sorts of other good things.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Grandpa put eight mice, a chipmunk and half a dozen
+bugs to work getting the place ready for the returning
+soldiers. They cleaned up the rubbish under the rose-bush,
+they moved all the desks out of the schoolhouse,
+where the dinner and dance were to be held, and they
+made a reviewing stand out of the top of a candy box.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Nick, the squirrel, worked hard opening nuts. He
+gnawed so many his teeth became sore, but he never complained,
+for he was a very patriotic squirrel and most fond
+of the Teenie Weenies.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id006'>
+<img src='images/i133.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c004'>The little folks decorated the village with Teenie
+Weenie flags and bunting and when the time arrived for
+the army to march home the village was crowded with
+all sorts of visitors. Bugs, mice, squirrels, birds, chipmunks,
+and even a few chickens and ducks, crowded
+under the rose-bush.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>The General rode in ahead of the army and took his
+place on the reviewing stand amid the wildest shouting
+and waving of flags, but when the troops came marching
+into view there was such a squealing of squirrels and
+mice and squawking of chickens, ducks and birds, one
+could hardly hear oneself think. Grandpa shouted so
+hard that he had one of his choking fits, and a mouse
+had to pound him on the back until he could get his
+breath.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When the review was over there was much hugging
+and kissing and some crying, for most of the little women
+shed a few tears of happiness, but that’s a strange way
+women folks have of showing they are happy. One old
+hen cried so hard she had to be led away. A duck insisted
+on kissing the Dunce and a mouse hugged Paddy Pinn
+so hard it nearly broke his arm.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>After the little soldiers had visited for a time they were
+called into the old derby hat for supper and such a supper
+as they had! There was roasted bird’s egg, frog ham,
+escalloped hickory nut, walnut au gratin, creamed hearts
+of sunflower seed, water cress and wild cherry salad, and
+cakes and cookies and sliced grape and ice cream.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When the little soldiers had eaten until they could not
+hold another morsel, the General arose from his seat at
+the head of the big table and made a speech.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Friends and men of the Teenie Weenie army,” he
+began, “I want to thank you for your loyal and hearty
+service. You have gone through hardships and you have
+risked your lives in battle without complaint. You have
+done this to aid those in trouble and nothing greater can
+be said of your deeds than that they were done willingly.
+Men, I am proud to have been your leader.”</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Three cheers for the army!” shouted a mouse who
+had been helping to wait on table, and the cheers were
+given with a will.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>Next the Lady of Fashion made a little speech. She
+very prettily thanked the General and the army for having
+rescued the Poet and herself from the wild men and
+as she sat down there were tears in her pretty eyes. The
+Poet spoke and Grandpa made a speech about the great
+war in forty-two, but few heard what the old gentleman
+said, for they were anxious to talk to one another about
+the great events of the rescue of their friends.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>“Friends!” shouted Paddy Pinn, when Grandpa had
+sat down, “I think the Dunce ought to explain to the rest
+of us just why that old duck was so anxious to kiss him.”
+Every one yelled so loudly for the Dunce that he was
+forced to stand up, but he was so embarrassed he couldn’t
+speak a word and the Teenie Weenies laughed so hard
+they cried.</p>
+
+<p class='c004'>When the tables had been cleared away the orchestra
+started playing and in a few minutes the little folks were
+swinging around to the music of “The Lady of Fashion
+Waltz.” They danced until nearly morning—in fact it
+was broad daylight when the tired little soldiers crawled
+into their tiny beds, every one of them mighty thankful
+that they were safely home again.</p>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c024'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'>“The war is over, our duty is done;</div>
+      <div class='line in1'>Hang up the pistol, the sword and the gun.”</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c025'>Rufus Rhyme,</p>
+<p class='c026'><i>Teenie Weenie Poet</i>.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id017'>
+<img src='images/i136.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c000' />
+</div>
+<p class='c004'>&nbsp;</p>
+<div class='tnbox'>
+
+ <ul class='ul_1 c005'>
+    <li>Transcriber’s Notes:
+      <ul  class='ul_2'>
+        <li>Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
+        </li>
+        <li>Typographical errors were silently corrected.
+        </li>
+        <li>Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant
+        form was found in this book.
+        </li>
+      </ul>
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+
+</div>
+<p class='c004'>&nbsp;</p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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author	nfenwick <nfenwick@pglaf.org>	2025-01-27 14:06:30 -0800
committer	nfenwick <nfenwick@pglaf.org>	2025-01-27 14:06:30 -0800
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