But smiling heart runs all the way!”
she repeated, remembering an old rhyme her mother used to sing to her when she was “quite a little thing” out in India.
CHAPTER XIV.
INSIDE A CROCODILE
COPPERTOP had travelled many miles, and was growing very tired, when she remembered that she was on an island, and therefore must be going round and round in her search for the crocodile.
And now the question arose as to which was chasing which.
“I can’t be running after him and away from him at the same time, can I?” she exclaimed.
“Was that question addressed to me?” chirped a small blue bird, from the branch of a baobab tree.
“Oh, yes, if you like,” said Coppertop, not at all surprised to be conversing with a strange bird; nothing surprised her now. “If only I had brought Pudgy with me, instead of Miss Smiler,” she mused, “he would have been able to tell me!”