"I don't care. I don't think it's fair. I take you on my honey-moon with me, and all you do in return is to make me sit up and swank." And he slammed the book about a bit. But Baby paid no heed, because it's best not, when they're like that: for when they see you take no notice, they soon get over it. So she just climbed into her chair instead and ate her bread and milk, and watched Tiny over it, working away at E straight up at the table. And after about a bit Baby leaned over and took the book away, and said, "And now try." [Illustration: AND TOOK THE BOOK AWAY] So Tiny came out of his hands, and shut his eyes, and opened his mouth, and said very slow, "E was an Elephant ever so Big Danced on a Beer-barrel jig-a-jig-jig." Then Baby hammered the table with her spoon, and cried, "All correct. Well done, Tiny-boy. Very well said indeed, indeed." But Tiny asked with his eye-brows, and prayed with his hands, "Enough for one night, Baby?" So Baby went back to her bread-and-milk, and said, "Very well, then. Some more to-morrow, though, because of the Commander-in-Chief." But Tiny answered, "Good time now; bad time never," which was rather a favourite saying of his. And he got up from the thin chair, and fainted away in the fat one, murmuring, "Tiny, sleep a lirel longer, Till the lirel limbs are stronger, Sleep, my lirel one, sleep, my prery one, Sleep." 16 And about the middle of that very night, Cooey flew in at the window, with a writing under his wing; for the windows have to be open all the time in That Country: for that is one of the rules; and you have to keep the rules everywhere always just the same--else you suffer; which is Law. Then Tiny sat up in bed, and read the writing by the moon; while Cooey perched on Baby's shoulder, as she slept, and crooned to her. And the writing ran in a great blob hand like a baby's, _Come back at once. Cowud. Leaving it all to me to do. And I never would have believed it of u. This is one for your snuk. There is Goliuf to pay for yet._ _The Hon. St Jack-Assquire._ _P.S.--I am getting ready a nice supprize for u and the Redgment._ Then Tiny shut his eyes, and folded his hands very piously, and said a lot of things low to himself. And after that he scribbled on the back of the writing, "Charmed, I'm shaw," and gave it Cooey, who splashed out of the window with it. And when the splashing of Cooey's wings had died away, Tiny got up, and bent over Baby as she slept and whispered in her ear, "Good-bye, Baby. Now I go home." Then Baby woke up quick, and stood up on her elbows in bed, and said, "Why?" So Tiny answered, "Because I have had enough for now, thank-you," for he didn't want to frighten Baby; and he sat on the edge of the bed, and got into his sock. And when that was done, he took up the bag full of luggage, and the canary by the cage, for Baby had taught him how to carry both now, and trotted downstairs with them.