You like it better than mine, don't you?"
The small girl did not answer, and when Huckleberry looked around, he
saw that she was asleep.
"Poor little thing!" said Huckleberry, softly, to himself. "I guess I
gave her a little too much riddle to begin with. Her mind isn't formed
enough yet. But it's pretty hard on me. I wanted to teach somebody
something, and here she's gone to sleep. I wish I could find that
goose-girl. If father could teach her something, I'm sure I could."
[Illustration: THE FAIR LADY OF RENOWN.]
So he went walking through the fields, and pretty soon he saw Lois,
standing among her geese, who were feeding on the grass.
Huckleberry skipped up to her as lively as a cricket.
"Can you tell me," said he, "why an elephant with a glass globe of
gold-fish tied to his tail is like the Lord High Admiral of the British
Isles?"
"Was the globe of gold-fish all the elephant owned?" asked the
goose-girl, thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Huckleberry. "But I don't see what that's got to do with
it."
"Then the answer is," said Lois, without noticing this last remark,
"because all his property is entailed.
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