[Illustration: "DO YOU THINK WE'VE BEEN ASLEEP?"] "Now, Mr. Presto Digi," said the Mayor, when all the party were standing on the ground, "please enlarge our friends to their natural sizes again." "That is very easy," said the magician, with a sigh. "I really wish, Mr. Mayor, that you would find something for me to do that is difficult." "I will, some time," promised the Mayor. "Just now, this is all I can require of you." So the magician waved his paw and gurgled, much in the same way he had done before, and Twinkle and Chubbins began to grow and swell out until they were as large as ever, and the prairie-dogs again seemed very small beside them. "Good-bye," said the little girl, "and thank you all, very much, for your kindness to us." "Good-bye!" answered a chorus of small voices, and then all the prairie-dogs popped into their holes and quickly disappeared. Twinkle and Chubbins found they were sitting on the green bank again, at the edge of Prairie-Dog Town. "Do you think we've been asleep, Chub?" asked the girl. "'Course not," replied Chubbins, with a big yawn. "It's easy 'nough to know that, Twink, 'cause I'm sleepy now!" THE END PRINTED BY R. R. DONNELLEY AND SONS COMPANY, AT THE LAKESIDE PRESS, CHICAGO, ILL. * * * * * Transcriber's notes p8 "what they they get by boring deep holes" changed to "what they get by boring deep holes" Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ "Prairie-dog Town" is one of six stories in "Twinkle and Chubbins", available from Project Gutenberg. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Prairie-Dog Town, by Laura Bancroft