He helped me from the fence, sent the bulldogs rolling--sure enough he did kick them, and they didn't like it either--took my hand and led me straight into the house, and the Princess was there, and a woman who was her mother no doubt, and he said: "Pamela, here is our little neighbour, and she says she's in trouble, and she thinks you may be of some assistance to her.

Of course you will be glad if you can." "Surely!" said the Princess, and she introduced me to her mother, so I bowed the best I knew, and took off my wet mitten, dirty with climbing fences, to shake hands with her.

She was so gracious and lovely I forgot what I went after.

The Princess brought a cloth and wiped the wet from my shoes and stockings, and asked me if I wouldn't like a cup of hot tea to keep me from taking a chill.
"I've been much wetter than this," I told her, "and I never have taken a chill, and anyway my throat's too full of trouble to drink." "Why, you poor child!" said the Princess.

"Tell me quickly! Is your mother ill again ?" "Not now, but she's going to be as soon as she finds out," I said, and then I told them.
They all listened without a sound until I got where Leon helped the goose eat, and from that on Mr.Pryor laughed until you could easily see that he had very little feeling for suffering humanity.