But Baby crept up to the landlady's door on tip-toe, so as not to disturb her--for they had grown to love the landlady, because she was so good and fat--and shoved a note of paper under the crack. And on it outside was, With love from Baby and Tiny. And in it inside was a sixpenny, which was a penny more than they owed her, so that she could retire on it if she liked. Which she did. 17 Then Tiny and Baby went out of doors into the dusk. And one moist star was stuck over the top of the hill, which looked like a black tent against a grey sheet: for the sun was going to get up soon. And on the top of the hill under the star was a little madman waving both arms, which he always did, when he thought he saw the sun, to tell the people time to get up. Only sometimes he made a mistake, and it was the moon instead. Then the people all went back to bed, and were cross, and gave it the little madman when he came down from the hill at midday for his bun. So Tiny and Baby walked away over the moor in the white of the dawn, arm in arm, back to That Country. [Illustration: Book IV headpiece] BOOK IV.--TINY AND BABY GO HOME 18 So Tiny and Baby came back to That Country, and staid with the mothers, one hour with each mother: for that is one of the rules. And when they were gone, each mother sat down all day in the table in the window in the sun, and wrote round: four sheets to everybody, four hundred sheets in all. And Baby's mother chuckled, because she was so happy; and _she_ thumped her envelope with her fist: but Tiny's mother cried, because she loved that best; and she smoothed hers with the flat of her hand. 19 Then Tiny went down the Tumbledown Hill to the Town, Baby on arm. And the Town is an old ancient street with the Church on one side, and the Inn on the other, and the Policeman between; and that is all: for it is only a country town, although the capital of That Country. And at the back of the Inn is the market with pens inside a wall. And there the people come every Thursday to sell their things. And when Tiny and Baby got there it was market-day. So all the people were trying to sell their things to each other. Only everybody wanted to sell, and nobody to buy; which is often the way. So that made it rather difficult all round. But when Tiny and Baby came in they stopped arguing, and began to stare instead. 20 And the Queen was there trying to sell a white moo-calf, because she said she wanted the money to buy her a bonnet. [Illustration: THE QUEEN WAS THERE] So everybody came round and pinched the Queen's calf, though nobody bought it. And when Tiny saw that he went and pinched it too very shrewdly, saying, "Ha!" and "Hum!" with his hat a bit on one side: for Tiny didn't want to buy the Queen's calf himself, but he liked the Queen to think he did.