"'There's the dragon!' he said, in the most afraid voice, and he hung back on the girl's hand so hard that she couldn't move.
"When she saw how he looked, she patted him. 'I don't see anything,' she said, 'only just lovely woods.'
"'Oh, Purity, come back, come back, we can't go any farther!' said the man, and his eyes kept staring at something among the trees, close by.
"'What do you see?' asked the little girl.
"'A great red dragon with seven heads and ten horns!' answered the man, and he pulled on her again, to go back with him.
"'Dear me,' said Purity, 'is that old make-believe thing ground here, trying to cheat you? I've heard about it.'
"'It would make anybody afraid,' said the man. 'It has seven heads and it could eat us up with any one of them.'
"'Yes, it could, if it was there,' said Purity, 'but there isn't any such thing, to be there. The King of the country is all-powerful and He knows we're coming, and He wants us to come. Hasn't He taken care of us all the way and helped us over every hard place? Shouldn't you think you'd know by this time that we're being taken care of?'
"'Oh, dear!' said the man, 'I shall never see the Heavenly Country, nor the castle, nor know what true delight is; for no one could get by that dragon!'