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"Thank you," said Quincy. "We make it a rule, or rather my employer does, that tenants and their callers shall be treated with civility and their wants attended to promptly." Again Quincy eyed the telephone stand with a view to its use as a weapon. "Ting-a-ling! Ting-a-ling! Miss Dana yes, Mr. Cass Mr. Quincy Adams Sawyer, Junior, wishes to call upon you in your sitting-room.
"It may be Nature's first law, but it's about the weakest defense a guilty man can offer. 'I couldn't help myself' has always been the excuse for helping oneself!" "Rather good that!" approved Miss Wiggin. "Can you do it again?" "The victim of circumstances is inevitably one who has made a victim of someone else," blandly went on Mr. Tutt without hesitation. "Ting-a-ling!
Then did Ting-a-ling get very red in the face, and, standing erect, he took strong hold of the Princess's upper eyelash, to steady himself, resolved upon giving that saucy fairy a good kick, when, to his dismay, the eyelash came out, he lost his balance, and at the same moment a fresh shower of tears burst from her eyes, which washed Ting-a-ling senseless into her lap.
The grand vizier was on the wide platform of the throne, making a speech, but the uproar was so great that not one word of it could Ting-a-ling hear. The King himself was by his throne, putting on the bulky boots, which he only wore when he went to battle, and which made him look so terrible that a person could hardly see him without trembling.
There is room enough in the palace for all to sleep to-night. Form in line, and to bed, MARCH!" So they all formed in line, and began to march to bed, to the music of the band; and the fairies, their little horns blowing, and with Ting-a-ling at the post of honor by the Queen, took up their line of march, out of the window to the garden, which was to be, henceforward forever, their own.
The idea of waiting for the butterfly to be hatched, seemed so funny to Ting-a-ling, that he burst out laughing, and Parsley laughed too, and so did the grasshopper, for he took this opportunity to slip his head out of the bridle, and away he went!
The magicians did not appear to think that they could; but Ting-a-ling, who was still on the Princess's shoulder, though unseen by the dwarf, suddenly shouted, "I can play!" and in an instant he had driven his little sword into the dwarf's eye, who immediately sprang from the chair with a howl of anguish.
Ting-a-ling came in for a good share of praise and caressing; and if he had not slipped away to tell his tale to the fairy Queen, there is no knowing what would have become of him.
His feet were high above the rest of his body, resting in the crotch of a great oak-tree, and he lay with his vest open and his hat off, idly sucking the pith from a young sapsago-tree that he had just broken off. Near him, on the top of a tall bulrush, sat the little fairy Ting-a-ling. They had been talking together for some time, and Tur-il-i-ra said, "Ting-a-ling, you must come and see me.
So the Giant went to sleep, and the people all listened for the Kyrofatalapynx, holding their breaths, and standing ready to jerk the rope when he should come. Poor little Ting-a-ling was nearly consumed with curiosity. What was the Kyrofatalapynx?
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