WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT. 35

 

music there all day long; and that the
streets were all paved with gold.

One day a large waggon and eight
horses, all with bells at their heads,
drove through the village while Dick
was standing by the sign-post. He
‘ thought that this waggon must be going
to the fine town of London; so he took
courage, and asked the waggoner to let
him walk with him by the side of the
waggon. As soon as the waggoner
heard that poor Dick had no father or
mother, and saw by his ragged clothes
that he could not be worse off than he
was, he told him he might go if he would,
so they set off together.