42 STORIES OF EARTH AND SKY 



Rabbit backward out of his hole by it, and the 

 tail moulted right off, the way the rooster's tail 

 did, when you caught him last summer." 



" Oh, Waddlekins," laughed Anne, shaking 

 her finger at him, "you are growing young and 

 sly again, and I don't half think you are a proper 

 person to have adopted Lumberlegs." 



As they left the wood with the setting sun 

 behind them and turned toward Happy Hall, the 

 great silvery moon was rolling its disk above the 

 opposite end of the road. 



" There is the moon before sunset and as large 

 as life," said Anne ; " yet it doesn't look like any- 

 thing while the sun is about. I wonder if 

 there ever was a man-in-the-moon and if there are 

 any people there now ? " 



" Hush, don't speak to me now," said a faint 

 voice slipping down the moonbeams. " Day is 

 not my time for answering questions. I'm not 

 allowed to speak while the sun is up, but if you 

 will leave your blind up, I'm due round by your 

 window by eight o'clock, and then I may stop a 

 bit and chat. The night is my day, so the Red 

 Brothers called me Dibik Gheezis, the night sun. 



