'Now we'll have a three-legged race,' said Baby Jane when they had at last subsided into giggles. 'It is rather a boys' game, but I'm only going to do it to teach you.'
Baby Jane and the Piccaninny.
There were three couples—the Lion and the Rabbit, the Bear and the Crocodile, and Baby Jane and the Piccaninny.
The Bear and the Crocodile made a splendid race with Baby Jane's couple. The Bear took tiny steps to suit the shortness of the Crocodile's legs, and their feet pattered as fast as a fly flaps its wings; but the children won by two yards.
As for the Lion and the Rabbit, they sat down to quarrel half-way, the Rabbit recommending big kangaroo-like bounds, while the Lion was for hopping on the joint leg.
After this came a game of 'Gathering Nuts in May,' and the creatures nearly went wild with excitement.
It is to be feared that they were so anxious for their side to win that they did things that were not quite honest.
Now, Baby Jane had decided that the Rabbit and the Piccaninny might always pull together, being each so small.
On a certain occasion her side had declared in song that they would