'Lootie! Lootie! why do you run so fast? It shakes my teeth when
I talk.'
'Then don't talk,' said Lootie.
'But the princess went on talking. She was always saying: 'Look,
look, 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 saw it was only a lump of the rock
itself that she had taken 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 crash. It was a hard downhill 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 sobs, and running too fast for her grazed knees.
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