and their
harness was glittering with chains and little brass things and with
ivory rings; and the horses were dragging a great big shiny van which
seemed almost as big as a house.

The driver's seat was up high, and the top of the van stuck over and
made a little roof for it; and on the side of the van was a picture of
two lions, and the lions in the picture were about as big as real
lions.

And behind that van came another three-horse van like the first, with
lions painted on the side.

And behind that came a smaller van drawn by two horses, and that had
lions painted on the side, and a little dog trotted under the
two-horse van, and his tongue was hanging out because he had trotted a
long way and he was thirsty.

When these three vans had turned the corner, no more came, although
David watched for as much as half a minute.

By that time the first van was past him and his cat had caught sight
of the little dog and the little dog had caught sight of the cat.

But the cat didn't do anything, and the little dog was too tired to
chase her. So he pretended that he didn't see her, and he trotted
along under the van as far as the new house.

All the vans stopped at the new house, and the horses backed them up
side by side in the gutter. There wasn't any curbstone, and the
sidewalk was a new one of gravel, and there would be a border of grass
when the grass had time to grow.

As soon as the vans had stopped, the little dog trotted out from under
the two-horse one, and went around the house looking for some water.

And he came to the faucet where they screw on the hose, and he saw
that there was a drop of water hanging on the bottom of the faucet. So
he licked that up and waited until another drop came, and he licked
that up.

Then one of the moving-men saw him.

"Poor little Dick!" said the moving-man.

And he went to the faucet and the little dog wagged his stump of a
tail and backed away a step and waited.

Then the moving-man turned the handle of the faucet so that a little
thin stream of water ran out, and the little dog came up and lapped
out of the little thin stream, wagging his stump of a tail very fast.
He wagged and he lapped until he had had enough.

[Illustration: HE LICKED UP THE DROPS OF WATER]

And the moving-man turned the handle of the faucet the other way, and
the water stopped running.

Then the little dog licked the man's hand, and he trotted back to the
van, and he went under and cu