At that moment seven or eight carpenters, who were working on the rafters, heard their companion's cry and looked through the window.

Seeing the prince on the coping they climbed along a ladder that was leaning on the slates and reached him just as he was slipping into the tower.

They sent him, head foremost, down the one hundred and thirty-seven steps of the spiral staircase.
IV.

VISCOUNTESS OLIVE The Penguins had the finest army in the world.

So had the Porpoises.