“An Officer and an Elephant! How nice!” exclaimed the little girl eagerly. “I am quite certain it must be very funny.”
“I don’t think the Officer found it so,” the little lady replied, giving a sweet, little tinkling laugh.
“Didn’t he?” asked her listener with much interest.
“I wish you would tell me all about it now,” she continued; “I want so much to hear it.”
“Not now,” replied the little Marionette, “it is getting too late; all the animals in the Noah’s Ark are fast asleep. Listen, they are snoring loudly. Come to-morrow at the same time. Be punctual, for the story is a long one.”
“Yes, I will,” promised the little girl.
