“‘How?’ asked Perseus.
“‘You wait and thee. We’ll catch up with him thoon. He doethn’t go very fatht.’”
The Princess stopped, and looked off, over the sea. Then she looked back at the Others, all waiting for her to go on.
“It’s terribly exciting, Dearie,” said Phyllisy.
“Then what happened?” asked the Kitten.
“By this time Cassiopeia was ready to go on, and they started once more. They could see that Orion still talked and argued as he kept on by Major’s side, with the two dogs running about them both; but Major never once glanced at him or his dogs, and kept up his curious gait.
“And—do you believe?—now that they knew what his idea was, his legs did seem to make a circular motion; and they couldn’t help thinking that he did look a little like a great clumsy wagon; but they wouldn’t, one of them, have owned it to the others!
“‘Now what do you think of that?’ asked Orion, stopping to let them come up with him. ‘He’s started, and he may go forever!’
“‘That’s what I say,’ observed Hercules.
“‘Draco says he can stop him,’ said Andromeda.