"Silly is as silly does, in Silly Land," said the Fragment; and again he and Her Terics laughed until Billy thought their stone sides would crack. "Look out," said he, "you'll burst." "We've already bursted," said His Terics. "Where?" "We've bursted into laughter of course. He-he-my-my, but isn't that a good joke?" "You enjoy your own jokes, don't you?" said Billy, trying to be sarcastic. "So would you if you could make them--I was just cut out for a joker--he-he-he." "_I_ should say that you were just plain foolish," said Billy. "Why do you laugh so at nothing?" "Because we've just brains enough to be silly, and of course we have to laugh at everything whether its anything or nothing--isn't that so, Her?" "Yes," said the girl. "He-he-he." "For goodness' sake stop giggling," said Billy; "you set my teeth on edge." "He-he-ho-ho, that's good," cried His Terics, "but suppose they weren't on edge and lay flat in your mouth, you would have to lie on your side to chew. He-he-he." "Stop it," said Billy, "I'm so nervous now I could jump out of my skin." "Oh, _do_," laughed both of them, "please do; that would be awfully funny!" "He-he-he! Yes," said His Terics, "then you would be beside yourself, wouldn't you?" "Well, I can't waste time with you any longer, I'm going." "You think you're going but you're not--he-he-he," said His Terics. "I'll show you." "Oh! no--he-he-he oh! no, but you'll not, you know--he-he-he," said both of them, suddenly throwing their arms around his neck. Billy fought and squirmed and kicked, but of course as the Fragments were stone they easily held him down, nor could he make any impression on them with his heels or fists. "Oh! don't go--please don't go," said His Terics; "I really shouldn't go if I were you--he-he-he." "That's all right," panted Billy, "you've got me now, but remember that he who laughs last laughs best." "I know that," said His Terics, "because I laughed last and it was the best I've had in a long time." "Let me go," said Billy, "I've a message to deliver to Bogie Man." "That's the reason we're here," said His Terics, "but we will take the message--he-he-he, oh! Yes, we will take the message." "I have to deliver it myself--and besides I don't believe you'd take it to him anyway." "Of course not--we'd take it, but just out of your pocket--he-he-he-he! ho-ho!" "Oh! here comes the Gillies," cried Her Terics. "Now we will have some fun." Billy looked in the direction in which she pointed and saw three very, very stupid looking fellows slouching toward them. When the Gillies got up to where Billy and the Fragments stood, they stopped, and without looking up one of them said: "Do you know where His Terics and Her Terics are?" "Here we are," cried His Terics, "at least we think we're here, if we're not won't you go find us and then come back and tell us where we're to be found--he-he-he." "Why, so you are," cried the first speaker. "I didn't think to look."