THE QUEEN WAS THERE
So everybody came round and pinched the Queen's calf, though nobody bought it.
And when Tiny saw that he went and pinched it too very shrewdly, saying,
"Ha!" and "Hum!" with his hat a bit on one side: for Tiny didn't want to buy the Queen's calf himself, but he liked the Queen to think he did.
And the vet was there running up and down on a string a little rough, round pony that pattered, trying to sell it, because he said he'd outgrown it.
And when Baby saw how rough and round the pony was, and how it pattered, she clapped her hands and cried,
"Oh, the duck!" and asked the vet if she might run it up and down on the string a bit.
And when the vet, who was rather hot and panty, said,
"Suttinly, Miss," she ran it up and down till she could run no longer; and after that she went into a corner out of the crowd with the vet, and gasped,
"How much?"