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"Let someone else save her," said the Country indifferently, beginning to move off sideways like a crab. "You're the first savages I've found and I'm going to keep you. Not that you're what I'd pick out," it continued ungraciously. "That wooden girl looks uncommonly odd and you two beasts are even queerer. But I'm liberal, I am, and the boy looks all right so far as I can see."

"But, look here," panted Wag, twitching his nose very fast, "this is all wrong. Land is supposed to stand still, isn't it? You've no right to discover us. We don't want to be discovered. Put us off at once—do you hear?"

"Yes, I hear," said the Runaway Country gruffly. "And I've heard about enough. Don't anger me," it shrilled warningly. "Remember, I'm a wild, rough Country."

"You're the wildest Country I ever saw," groaned the Elegant Elephant, falling up against a tree. "And of all ridiculous happenings this is the worst!"

"Never mind," whispered Peg Amy, standing on her tip toes to whisper in Kabumpo's huge ear, "it's taking us in the right direction, and maybe, if we were very polite—?"

"Go ahead and try it," wheezed Kabumpo, rolling