“Excuse me,” said Mary Frances; “my father says that no one should ever sign a paper without reading it.”
“That’s good reading!” said the dolphin. “Read it!”
And Mary Frances read:
Good for
One First Class Passage
to
Story Island
I Believe in All Good Fairies.
Signed ———
No. 1,234,567.
“Of course, I’ll sign that!” said Mary Frances, gravely using the dolphin’s whisker.
At that, the dolphin fell over with a great splash into the water.
“Oh!” screamed Mary Frances, “you’ll be drowned!” But, just at that moment, up came the dolphin’s head out of the water.
“My element!” he said. Then Mary Frances laughed to think how soon she had forgotten.