When the elephant turned to get Stubby and Button to put them over the same way, he found they had crawled through the hole the kids had used.
Such a smelling of noses, and licking of faces you never saw as when the Billy Whiskers family and their friends were once again reunited after this long separation while Billy had been in the war in Europe.
"Isn't it too bad, my dear," said Nannie, "that we are all shut up in this yard with no hopes of getting out? And I was just saying to Daisy that if you were here, you would soon find a way to secure our freedom."
"And I shall, my dear. I shall just wait until the keeper comes in through the gate to look after the goats. Then I shall either butt him over as he comes in or butt down the gate when he takes the padlock and chain off. Anyhow, I shall find a way to get us out of here very soon, I am sure. Now we will think only of the present and enjoy every minute of being together. What fine kids the Twins have grown to be! But I imagine they are just as mischievous as ever."
"Can you wonder at it when you stop to consider who their father and grandfather are?" said Nannie.
"Gracious! What can be causing all that commotion over in the farther corner of the yard, I wonder?" said Daisy.
"Where are the Twins?" asked Billy Junior.
"I don't know," answered their mother.
"Then I guess you will find that they are at the bottom of the fracas over there. I'll go see," said their father, and off he trotted to find out if the kids were in mischief.
Presently he came back, driving both kids before him. But what had happened to them? They were as dirty as dirty could be and both were crying.