Unless I find a place to hide!”
Then the Ink Bottle Babies suggested various places for the little dwarf to hide in, but none of the places pleased him, so he said,
“If you stay till afternoon,
I will come back very soon!”
Then in a twinkling of an eye he was gone.
The teacher was so surprised to see all the Ink-Bottle Babies on such a rainy day that she let them sit wherever they pleased. They went to the blackboard and did neat little sums, and they all got their answers right.
At noon the teacher went home for dinner, and the Babies took out their twenty-five little dinner pails, and began to eat their lunch.
The rain came down harder and harder, and the Babies said, “We wonder if the little dwarf got drowned?”
Soon there was heard a rap-a-tap at the window, and a voice called,