Then the others tried their hands at being 'cat' and 'mouse,' until the whole party was weak with laughing. 'Now we'll have a three-legged race,' said Baby Jane when they had at last subsided into giggles. 'It is rather a boys' game, but I'm only going to do it to teach you.' [Illustration: Baby Jane and the Piccaninny.] There were three couples--the Lion and the Rabbit, the Bear and the Crocodile, and Baby Jane and the Piccaninny. The Bear and the Crocodile made a splendid race with Baby Jane's couple. The Bear took tiny steps to suit the shortness of the Crocodile's legs, and their feet pattered as fast as a fly flaps its wings; but the children won by two yards. As for the Lion and the Rabbit, they sat down to quarrel half-way, the Rabbit recommending big kangaroo-like bounds, while the Lion was for hopping on the joint leg. After this came a game of 'Gathering Nuts in May,' and the creatures nearly went wild with excitement. It is to be feared that they were so anxious for their side to win that they did things that were not quite honest. Now, Baby Jane had decided that the Rabbit and the Piccaninny might always pull together, being each so small. On a certain occasion her side had declared in song that they would 'Have Miss Crocodile for Nuts in May, Nuts in May, Nuts in May'; and also that they would 'Send Bunny and the Piccaninny to fetch her away, Fetch her away, fetch her away.' Then that little couple went out, and the Rabbit, having caught the Crocodile's hand, and the Piccaninny having gripped the Rabbit's little tail, they tugged and they tugged for the honour of their side to pull Miss Crocodile over the line, until their little hearts nearly burst and the Rabbit's tail nearly came off. [Illustration: She had anchored the end of her tail to a stout young palm tree.] And all the while Miss Crocodile calmly sat and smiled, and never budged. Why? Because she had anchored the end of her tail to a stout young palm tree, and it would have needed a steam-engine to 'gather' her. Even after this, the creatures were eager for more, and Baby Jane thought of 'Hide-and-Seek.' She would go and hide, and they would sit in a row with their eyes tight shut while they counted sixty. She ran off as fast as she could over a little hillock, so that the animals could no longer see her, even if they were unfair enough to open their eyes, and towards a clump of trees that looked like a capital hiding-place. She little thought into what terrible danger she was running. On she went till she had reached the corner of the little wood. There, behind it, she saw with startled eyes a horde of mounted Cannibals lying in wait.