266 Tommy Twister’s Discovery

—while he was engaged in the discovery ;
and ever afterwards, when he had seen hot
jam he had approached it very slowly, and
walked round it with his legs stiff, like your
terrier and the terrier next door walk round
each other when they have had words.

That—I don’t mean the ways of terriers,
but the hotness of jam—was Tommy’s GREAT
IDEA.

Doctor Nansen never thought of it, nor
any one else; for if they had, of course ¢hey
would have discovered the North Pole, and
this beautiful story would not have been
written.

Suddenly, when the ark had got well out
to sea, Tommy suddenly sat down bang on
the deck and said, “Ooh! I say!”

‘What's the matter?” said Billy.

“Why, we've forgotten the buns for the
Polar bears; and they'll be so cross! Very
likely they won’t let us pass! What shall
we do?

“There's a ship coming,” said Billy. ‘Let
us speak her. She may have some buns.”

She was an ocean liner—one of the