"I tell ye, there didn't no grass grow under me! I was up fast as my legs could scramble.
"'That's right!' she says; 'always stand up and take off your hat when a lady comes into the yard.'
"'Be you a lady?' says I. Lord knows what kind of notion I had; children don't always know what they are saying.
"'I am the Queen of the Cannibal Islands!' says she.
"I never misdoubted but what she was, and I didn't know what Cannibal Islands meant.
"'What's your name?' says I.
"'I'll tell you what my husband's name is,' says she. 'His name is
"'Chingy Fungy Wong,
Putta-potee da Kubbala Kong,
Flipperty Flapperty Busky Bong,
The King of the Cannibal Islands.'
"Then she went into the house, and I stood starin' after her with my mouth gappin' open. She didn't stay long, and, when she came out again, up I jumps without waitin' to be told. She looks at me ag'in, that quick way she had, like a bird. 'Finished your pie?' says she.
"'Yes'm,' says I.