“Do you sing that, too?” she asked.

“Yes; but you’ll have to get down,” the Donkey replied. “It’s very hard to sing with some one on your back,—though I have studied that method.”

Buddie slid down and handed the lute to the Donkey, who immediately began:

“A queer old land is the Land of Nod,

On the shore of Slumber Sea.

There every one is a sleepy-head,

And the onlywhere to go is Bed,

Where every one wants to be.

“Such queer old towns in the Land of Nod,

With names of the oddest sort—