54 DOGGED JACK.

reaching Polly took her in his arms, and in one
minute she was safe on the ground.
 "Don't you get up so high in trees again, Missy,"
he said.
 "I don't think I'll ever climb in one again; at least,"
added Polly, as a saving clause, "certainly not with-
out Jack."
 Here Sally appeared clanging the gong again
violently.
 "Master says the goose will be cold," she called
out, running down to them.
 And wasn't that goose and fig pudding good!