"Pooh!" said the Red Emperor.
IV.
Paulina did not know where she was or how she came there, but she found herself before a wall on which hung a scroll with a face roughly sketched upon it. Paulina had a stick with a bit of chalk at the end of it in her hand, and she did not know whether she had drawn the face or not.
"Perhaps I did," said she. "I think it is a likeness of the moon."
"Pooh!" answered a voice.
Paulina knew that it was not the Red Emperor, for he had flown away. She looked round, but there was no one to be seen. Still the voice went on speaking—
"It's the sun but just begun;
When it's done there will be fun.
Mannikins in red and blue,
Will bring something good for you."
paulina ... began to put on the colour
"Who are you? where are you?" asked Paulina. "And do you know anything of Peter? He went with the mannikins."