Then Molly and Polly went to work to sort the caps. There were red caps, and blue caps, and yellow caps, and all kinds of caps. Then they went to work and sorted the neckties, and they worked all day, and still there were more caps and more neckties than you ever dreamed of.
The room they were in led into a hall and the hall, too, was full of lost things.
Suddenly Molly and Polly wanted to go home. They stopped work and said, “We want to go home right away!”
The little old woman clapped her hands and said,
“You are lost, you belong to me,
Ha! ha! ha! he! he! he!”
Then the little old woman went down the hall and locked the door and left Molly and Polly alone.
“How shall we ever get home?” they said.
Then they heard a voice say,
“Through the tree-trunk, come with me;