Her Friend Littlejohn

sure to come out at the other side? Only
poor wild things in cages at the Zoo keep
going round and round.”

And that is “truly and really,” W. V.
would add, “because I saw them doing it
at the Zoo.”

Even at the risk of being tedious, I must
finish the story, for it was one that greatly
delighted Littlejohn and haunted him in a
pleasant fashion. Well, when this little girl who
was lost had eaten the fruit and drunk the milk,
she asked the wee green oak-man to go with
her a little way, as it was growing dusk. And
he said he would. Then he whistled, and
close to, and then farther away, and still
farther and farther, other little oak-men whis-
tled in answer, till all the Forest was full of
the sound of whistling. And the oak-man
shouted, “ Will you help this little girl out? ”
and you could hear “ Yes, yes, yes, yes,” far
away right and left, to the very end of the
Forest. And the oak-man walked a few
yards with her, and pointed; and she saw
another oak and another oak-man; and so
she went on from one to another right
through the Forest; and she said, “ Thank

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