TWILIGHT LAND

(You may go with the wise man if you choose, but L shall
jog along with the simpleton.)

After Babo had travelled for a while, he knew not
whither, night caught him, and he lay down under a
hedge to sleep. There he lay, and snored away like a
saw-mill, for he was wearied with his long journeying.

Now it chanced that that same night two thieves had
broken into a miser’s house, and had stolen an iron pot

 

full of gold money. Day broke before they reached
home, so down they sat to consider the matter; and the
place where they seated themselves was on the other side
of the hedge where Babo lay. The older thief was for
carrying the money home under his coat; the younger
was for burying. it until night had come again. They
squabbled and bickered and argued till the noise they
made wakened Babo, and he sat up. The first thing he
thought of was the advice that the doctor had given him
the evening before. !

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