Lootie," but Lootie paid no more heed to anything she said, only ran
on.
"Look, look, Lootie! Don't you see that funny man peeping over the
rock?"
Lootie only ran the faster. They had to pass the rock and when they
came
nearer, the princess clearly saw that it was only a large fragment of
the rock itself that she had mistaken for a man.
"Look, look, Lootie! There's _such_ a curious creature at the foot of
that old tree. Look at it, Lootie! It's making faces at us, I do think."
Lootie gave a stifled cry, and ran faster still--so fast, that Irene's
little legs could not keep up with her, and she fell with a clash. It
was a hard down-hill road, and she had been running very fast--so it
was
no wonder she began to cry. This put the nurse nearly beside herself;
but all she could do was to run on, the moment she got the princess on
her feet again.
"Who's that laughing at me?" said the princess, trying to keep in her
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