In a few minutes both children were lying fast asleep on the floor of the caravan.
"My eye! jest look 'ere, Bill!"
"Well, I'm blowed!" said Bill, gaping open-mouthed at the sight of the two children asleep in the caravan.
"'Ow in the world did they get 'ere?" continued the woman who had first found them. "Wike up! wike hup!" she cried, giving them each a violent shaking.
Humpty began to open his eyes. He stared in astonishment at the people round him.
"Are you the circus people?" he asked.
"Yes, and who are you, we're wanting to know, and 'ow did you come 'ere?"
By this time Dumpty was awake. On seeing the strange faces, she immediately began to cry.
"Don't 'e cry, dear," said the woman; "there's no call to be afraid."