But the pi person only stopped, and looked through her spectacles, and said pretty severely,
"I thank you—no!"
And she tramped on under her umbrella, with her skirts hitched high.
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Then one day it stopped raining. So they set out one behind the other very secretly to explore the moor.
And they found great pools, and tiny fairy water-falls, and water-slides shooting over green rocks. And Baby wanted to take her clothes off and go in, but Tiny said he'd tell if she did.
So in the end Baby went in with her clothes on, and loved it; and Baby called that an accident, which was quite a lie.
And after that they found the two loveliest mountain-ferns there are, called the beech and the oak fern; at least Baby found the ferns, while Tiny steamed on in front in a perspiration, calling,
"Come on! come on! Else we shall never get there."
For Tiny always wanted to get somewhere, he didn't know quite where, only that it was just on in front. But when he got as far as in front, he always found it was a little further, and so on etc.