once the lamb began chattering just as a monkey chatters, only
in the most friendly and grateful way, and Trot fed it a handful of
fresh blue clover and smoothed and petted it until the lamb was eager
to follow her wherever she might go.

When she came to the fourth boudoir, a handsome blue parrot sat on a
blue perch and began barking as if it were nearly starved. Then it
cried out,

"Rub-a-dub, dub,
Gimme some grub!"

Trot laughed and gave it some seeds, and while the parrot ate them she
stroked gently his soft feathers. The bird seemed much astonished at
the unusual caress and turned upon the girl first one little eye and
then the other as if trying to discover why she was so kind. He had
never experienced kind treatment in all his life. So it was no wonder
that when the little girl entered the fifth boudoir she was followed by
the parrot, the lamb, the cat and the dog, who all stood beside her and
watched her feed the peacock, which she found strutting around and
mewing like a cat for his dinner. Said the parrot,

"I spy a peacock's eye
On every feather. I wonder why?"

The peacock soon came to love Trot as much as the other bird and all
the beasts did, and it spread its tail and strutted after her into the
next boudoir, the sixth one. As she entered this room, Trot gave a
start of fear, for a terrible roar like the roar of a lion greeted her.
But there was no lion there; a fuzzy, blue rabbit was making all the
noise. "For goodness sake keep quiet," said Trot. "Here's a nice blue
carrot for you. The color seems all wrong, but it may taste jus' as
good as if it was red."

Evidently it did taste good, for the rabbit ate it greedily. When it
was not roaring, the creature was so soft and fluffy that Trot played
with it and fondled it a long time after it had finished eating, and
the rabbit played with the cat and the dog and the lamb and did not
seem a bit afraid of the parrot or the peacock. But all of a sudden in
pounced Princess Indigo with a yell of anger.

"So this is how you waste your time, is it?" exclaimed the Princess,
and grabbing Trot's arm, she jerked the girl to her feet and began
pushing her from the room. All the pets began to follow her, and seeing
this, Indigo yelled at them to keep back. As they paid no attention to
this command, the princess seized a basin of water and dashed the fluid
over the beasts and birds, after which she renewed her attempt to push
Trot from the room. The pet