And she picked out the little pieces and put them in her apron and went in; and, almost as soon as she was in, smoke began to come out of the chimney, and David thought he had better go there and see what was going on. He walked up past his house, and stopped and got his cart and called his cat. And his cat came running, and he walked along, dragging his cart, with his shovel and his hoe rattling in the bottom of it. But when he got to the road he looked up to the corner to see if there was anything coming, and he saw what he thought must be the circus just turning the corner. First there came three great horses, harnessed abreast, and their harness was glittering with chains and little brass things and with ivory rings; and the horses were dragging a great big shiny van which seemed almost as big as a house. The driver's seat was up high, and the top of the van stuck over and made a little roof for it; and on the side of the van was a picture of two lions, and the lions in the picture were about as big as real lions. And behind that van came another three-horse van like the first, with lions painted on the side. And behind that came a smaller van drawn by two horses, and that had lions painted on the side, and a little dog trotted under the two-horse van, and his tongue was hanging out because he had trotted a long way and he was thirsty. When these three vans had turned the corner, no more came, although David watched for as much as half a minute. By that time the first van was past him and his cat had caught sight of the little dog and the little dog had caught sight of the cat. But the cat didn't do anything, and the little dog was too tired to chase her. So he pretended that he didn't see her, and he trotted along under the van as far as the new house. All the vans stopped at the new house, and the horses backed them up side by side in the gutter. There wasn't any curbstone, and the sidewalk was a new one of gravel, and there would be a border of grass when the grass had time to grow. As soon as the vans had stopped, the little dog trotted out from under the two-horse one, and went around the house looking for some water. And he came to the faucet where they screw on the hose, and he saw that there was a drop of water hanging on the bottom of the faucet. So he licked that up and waited until another drop came, and he licked that up. Then one of the moving-men saw him. "Poor little Dick!" said the moving-man. And he went to the faucet and the little dog wagged his stump of a tail and backed away a step and waited. Then the moving-man turned the handle of the faucet so that a little thin stream of water ran out, and the little dog came up and lapped out of the little thin stream, wagging his stump of a tail very fast. He wagged and he lapped until he had had enough. [Illustration: HE LICKED UP THE DROPS OF WATER] And the moving-man turned the handle of the faucet the other way, and the water stopped running.