college; and Peggy said that was impossible, as seventeen hundred and

fifty thousand children had to be given an education apiece, and they

couldn't spare one for Billy; and a missionary from Zambesi Land came

out of one of the secret drawers and said Billy must give him both

of his feet as he needed them for his working-girls' classes; and

thereupon the sharks poked their heads out of the water and began, in

a deafening chorus, to cry, "Feet, feet, feet!" And Billy then woke

with a start, and found it was only the birds chattering in the dawn

outside.

Then he was miserable.