"The girl speaks truly.

I'm sorry and I'm harmless.

I don't want to wander through the wide world, on top of the ground, for I'm a nome.

No nome can ever be happy any place but underground." "That being the case," said Kaliko, "I will let you stay here as long as you behave yourself; but, if you try to act badly again, I shall drive you out, as Tititi-Hoochoo has commanded, and you'll have to wander." "Never fear.

I'll behave," promised Ruggedo.