come to the park. But although I saw so many other pleasant young Folks,
I did not forget them.

Then, to my sorrow, just as I was getting used to things, although
always in a homesick way, I heard the keepers talking, and learned that
I was to be moved to another great city, where there was to be an
"exposition," or a showing of strange and useful things from many
different lands and seas, really an "exhibition."

I began growing flabby and thin. My spirits were at ebb-tide, very low.
I felt as if pining to death. Ah, me! I would have given all the pearls
of the ocean and sea, could I have got hold of them, to be back in my
own dear Mediterranean groves.




CHAPTER X.


HURRAH!

Then the day came when I was again made to swim into that despised
little tank. It was put on to a dray as before, and I was given my
second ride on land. May it forever be my last!

The roar of the great city again filled my ears, dust troubled my eyes
whenever I raised my head. I was faint, weary, and wretched. I could
feel that I had grown lighter from loss of flesh, because of the
unnatural life that I was leading.