30 THE MAGIC OAK TREE

this kind talk as he had done—there might
be something in it after all. Besides this,
she remembered that if little Hurly-Burly
did not want to go home with her, it would
be very difficult to make him, and that, if he
ran away, she would not easily be able to
catch him. So she made up her mind that
she had better yield and let him go, .and
after'taking a few moments to consider, she
said: ‘Well, Prince Hurly-Burly, if so it
must be, I can say no more. But pray
take care of your precious self, my child.
Don’t go and get your feet wet, or if you
should do so, mind you don’t go and sit
down with wet feet—there’s nothing so sure
to give you cold.’

Hurly-Burly was so glad to find that his
nurse no longer objected to his proposed
journey to the forest, that he readily pro-
mised all she asked, and, as soon as this
point was settled, proceeded to look for the
toad in the place which the hedgehog had
pointed out. He found him immediately,
and, taking him carefully up in a covering
of moss, put him into his jacket pocket as
he had been told; then, wishing the hedge-
hog and the nurse ‘good-bye,’ set out at