"That's Up Town!" cried Joe King pridefully. "And a tip top place to be, isn't it, Highty, old boy?"
"Take the high way up and the low way down,
And when you are there, you may have the town!" he roared lustily.
"And here we are on my mountain top!
Where we have high times. Whoa! High Boy. Stop!"
The Giant Horse, with a joyous neigh, did stop, for they were right at the city gates. No one came to admit them so High Boy raised himself up and looked over the wall.
"Open in the name of the law!" he snorted impatiently. "The King and two strangers are without!"
