V vigorously vetoed.
While this feast was still going on, the train, which had been simply flying along, suddenly stopped, and they all hurried out of the carriages and made the best of their way to the sea.
CHAPTER XI
GIRLIE IS CARTWRECKED.
GIRLIE found the Wallypug sitting on a little heap of sand under the cliff, when she reached the shore, whither she had followed the others from the Station. He was stuffing some paper into his crown to make it fit more comfortably.
“I am just wondering, your Majesty,” he remarked when she came up to him, “whether it would be considered quite dignified of me to paddle.”
Girlie could not remember ever having heard of a king paddling before, and told him so.
“No, perhaps I’d better not,” he said regretfully; “we might build a sand castle, though, mightn’t we?” he suggested, after considering a minute.