or her lamp.
"And there we've been searching for you all over the house for more
than
an hour and a half!" exclaimed the nurse. "But that's no matter, now
we've got you! Only, princess, I must say," she added, her mood
changing, "what you ought to have done was to call for your own
Lootie
to come and help you, instead of running out of the house, and up the
mountain, in that wild--I must say, foolish fashion."
"Well, Lootie," said Irene quietly, "perhaps if you had a big cat, all
legs, running at you, you mightn't exactly know which was the wisest
thing to do at the moment."
"I wouldn't run up the mountain, anyhow," returned Lootie.
"Not if you had time to think about it. But when those creatures came
at
you that night on the mountain, you were so frightened yourself that
you
lost your way home."
Madhuri Noah
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