"Well, where are they now?"
Tommy Toddles would have given his word, fifteen minutes before the ex-Pirate asked him this question, that his Noah's Ark with the animals in it was on the floor near the table; but when he went to look for it to show it to his friend he could not find it anywhere.
"It's gone," he said finally, after several minutes of vain searching under tables and sofas. "It's gone, and all the animals too."
"They've gone?" repeated the ex-Pirate.
"Yes," said Tommy, dejectedly, "they've gone away again. Not only the animals, but the Ark."
"The Ark!" exclaimed the ex-Pirate.
"Certainly," said Tommy. "My animals belonged in the Ark. There were two of each."
"In Noah's Ark?" said the ex-Pirate.
"Yes; did you never see one?"
"Why, what nonsense!" laughed the ex-Pirate. "That was hundreds and hundreds of years ago."