And looking behind him, Kernel Cob discovered an English clown doll who turned a somersault and came up on his feet with a merry laugh.
"Good for you," said Kernel Cob, "I wish I could do that."
"Everybody to his trade," said the clown, and stood upon his head.
"Maybe you'd be good enough to stay upon your feet till I find out what I want to know," said Kernel Cob.
And the Clown sprang into the air, turned over three or four times, and landed neatly upon his feet again.
"What is it you want to know?" he asked.
"First I want to know why you don't keep still?" asked Kernel Cob, for the Clown's antics made him nervous.
"I'm a Circus Clown," said he, "and I just turn these hand-springs all day."
So Kernel Cob looked about the store, but could see nobody else that looked as if he could talk English.
"What do you do all day without anybody to talk to?" he asked the Clown at length.