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and he kept our basket close by his side so that I 
could see him through the cracks in the basket, and 
could hear his voice. The rumbling of the wheels 
was not very pleasant to listen to, and Budge and 
Toddy were terribly frightened ; you see they had 
never traveled, as I had, and didn’t know what it 
all meant. 
But our journey was very short. We stopped 
in front of a little white house with vine-covered 
verandas, where Guy jumped down and took us in, 
and mistress was there to welcome us. She took 
us at once up to the attic, and when we emerged 
from the basket, what should we find but our pads 
spread out in the sun with a saucer of milk by the 
side of them. There we stayed until morning, but 
we did not sleep very much ; why ? There were 
too many cozy nooks and corners to explore, and 
besides that, Toddy said he saw a mouse poke her 
head above a little hole, and we all watched the 
hole with him. But I am half afraid the mouse 
must have seen us, for she took care not to return. 
In the morning Guy called us down-stairs and 
showed us all around the premises, and we were 
delighted to find such a large green yard with 
shrubs and trees. In front of the house were three 
