"I have heard that this ship makes many voyages to the North," said Pierre, "And I'm sure that it will take you where you want to go."
"You are very kind," said Sweetclover, "and we shall always remember how good you have been to us."
"It is a pleasure to be of service to you," said Pierre.
And they said good-bye to him and went aboard the whaler.
The next morning the vessel set sail amid great cheering from a crowd which had gathered on the dock, and for days they sailed and sailed, and it got colder and colder till the vessel came to great fields of ice.
But the dolls were happy, for they thought they were getting close to the North Pole and soon they would find Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather.
"Do you think you will know them when you see them?" asked Jackie Tar.
"I'm sure of it," answered Kernel Cob, "for I remember just the way they looked in the glass ball that the Magician showed us in India."
And one night as they were sailing along, the dolls crept out on the deck to see where they might be, for all the time they were on the ship they were down in the hold to be out of sight.
And they sat on a coil of rope but could see nothing except the great wide sea and the beautiful blue sky.