"I was frightened at first," he said, "but it has all turned out to be so nice that I am very glad you came."
When they were gone he sat down and fanned himself with his hat,
and the great big lions and tigers standing round him made him look very little indeed.
"Could you get small again, please?" he said. "I'm not a bit frightened, but you are rather too big for my size."
Every one of them began to un-swell that moment, and they got smaller and smaller, and smaller and smaller, until they were just the right size again—Snow Feast size—and they sat down in a ring around Barty; and the circus lady crept out from under a leaf and sat on his shoulder, and the clown crawled out of the bushes and
