went at full gallop, while all the occupants of the
carriage shouted with laughter, as they saw donkey and rider dash along
the avenue, and finally vanish in a cloud of dust.

"Come, Pollux! come, Castor!" said Uncle Jack, "it would never do for
the donkey to get to the Glen before us."

Castor and Pollux thought so too, for they tossed their heads, and
quickened their pace to a fast trot, though they were far too well
behaved to think of breaking into a gallop.

"Oh! isn't it nice to go so fastly?" exclaimed Fluffy, giving Downy a
hug. "Just like queens in their chariots. See those two little tiny
children, Downy! They are smaller as you, and perhaps they think we are
queens, only we haven't any crowns; but we might have left our crowns at
home for fear of robbers."

"Yef, wobbers!" said Downy, with a knowing nod.

"No I don't think we will be queens," said Brighteyes. "Let us be wild
beasts in a caravan, going to the menagerie, and then we can sing the
menagerie song." "Oh! yes! yes!" cried all the others. And then they
sang the following song, each singing a verse in turn, and then
imitating the voice of the creature she represented while the other
verses were sung. It was a lively game, you may believe.

[Illustration]

The Tiger is a terrible beast!
He lives in jungles of the East,
On bad little boys he loves to feast:
Oh! fiddledy, diddledy, dido!

The Lion he doth rage and roar;
And when he hits you with his paw,
You never are troubled with nothing no more,
Oh! fiddledy, diddledy, dido!

The Buffalo doth proudly prance,
Whenever the hunters will give him a chance,
And over the prairies he leads them a dance,
Oh! fiddledy, diddledy, dido!

The Crocodile doth open his jaws,
Like great big ugly tusky doors,
And gobbles you up without a pause,
Oh! fiddledy, diddledy, dido!

[Illustration: "THEY STOOD LOOKING AT THE MICE."]

By the time the last verse was finished the four mice were howling and
roaring in a manner frightful to hear, and Uncle Jack's patience finally
gave way. "Children," he said, turning round, "I cannot possibly endure
this. Be quiet at once, or I will drive you to the Lunatic Asylum and
leave you there! See, the people are all coming out of their houses to
stare at you!" So indeed they were, and one little girl, who