“We’ll come and make you the fashion, Miss Polly,” said Desmond. “Thank you a thousand times.” They swung off into the dusk.
CHAPTER XVII
LIGHTS OUT
“There was two of every single thing in the Ark,” said Geoffrey firmly. “The man in Church read it out of the Bible.”
“Two Teddy-bears?” asked Alison.
“No; Teddies are only toys. There was real bears, though.”
“Meat ones?” asked his sister hopefully.
“Yes. And all the other nanimals.”
“Who drived ’em in?”
“Ole Noah and Mrs. Noah. Mustn’t they have had a time! If you tried to drive in our turkeys an sheep and cows together there’d be awful trouble—and Noah had lions and tigers and snakes too.”
“Perhaps he had good sheep-dogs,” Norah suggested. She was sewing with Mrs. Hunt under a tree on the lawn, while the children played with a Noah’s Ark on a short-legged table near them.