Fortunately, none of them reached the mark, however, and the children, hastily gathered one or two of the cocoanuts, abandoned the clothes, which, really, were not of much value to them now, and fled.
This little incident had almost driven from their mind the recollection of the vehicle which they had seen in the high-road, but a rumbling sound, as they neared the place where they had last seen it, reminded them of the fact, and they hurried up to the spot from whence the sounds proceeded.
"'I shall get very angry in a minute,' said the Dodo."
To their great astonishment, they found a clumsy-looking cart, somewhat resembling the pictures which they had seen of the old Roman chariots, to the shafts of which a sleepy-looking sloth-bear was attached.
“Ha! ha! what a funny horse,” laughed Fidge. “It is a horse, isn’t it, Dick?”
“No,” said Dick; “I don’t think so.”
“Horse! no, indeed,” said the Dodo. “It’s a kind of camel.”
“I ain’t,” said the sloth-bear, with a yawn.