"Let go!" yelled the Bear.
"Let go, yourself!" screamed the monkey.
But neither of them did let go, so they rolled faster and faster down the hill, and the last that Twinkle saw of them they were bounding among the bushes at the very bottom of the big gulch.
[Chapter VI]
Prince Nimble
"GOOD gracious!" said the little girl, looking around her; "I'm as good as lost in this strange place, and I don't know in what direction to go to get home again."
So she sat down on the grass and tried to think which way she had come, and which way she ought to return in order to get across the gulch to the farm-house.
"If the Rolling Stone was here, he might tell me," she said aloud. "But I'm all alone."