Chapter IX.
f our Queen?”
quot;Not I kno; ans trying to t could not be- cause uffed ra;Ohe poppy bed.”
quot;A Lion!quot; cried ttle Queen. quot; us all up.”
quot;O; declared t;this Lion is a coward.”
quot;Really?quot; asked the Mouse.
quot;; ans;and anyone you all h kind- ness.”
quot;Very ; said t;rust you. But w shall we do?”
quot;Are to obey you?”
quot;O; she replied.
quot;to come eacring.”
turned to t attended old to go at once and get all ion as fast as possible.
quot;No; said to tin oodman, quot;you must go to trees by truck t he Lion.”
So t at once to trees and began to of trees, from toget of s pieces of a big tree trunk. So fast and so ime to arrive truck hem.
tions, and ttle mice and middle-sized mice; and eac a piece of string in time t Dorotly astoniso find anding around and looking at imidly. But told ev- eryturning to ttle Mouse, he said:
quot;Permit me to introduce to you y, the Queen.”
Dorotsy, after tle girl.
to fasten to truck, using trings t. One end of a string ied around to truck. Of course truck imes bigger to dra; but quite easily. Even tin oodman could sit on it, and ly by ttle o the Lion lay asleep.
After a great deal of o get ruck. to start, for sayed among too long they also would fall asleep.
At first ttle creatures, many tir truck; but t along bet- ter. Soon t of to t, fresead of t of the flowers.
Doroto meet ttle mi