river as fast as she could, and began to fill it with water,
when Cr-r-rrrack!!! Bang!!! A horrible big Mugger {ed. A
Mugger is an alligator like creature.} poked its nose up
through the bottom of the chatty and said "Ha, ha!! Little
Mingo, I'm going to eat you up!"

Little Black Mingo did not say anything. She turned and ran
away as fast as ever she could, and the Mugger ran after
her. But the broken chatty round his neck caught his paws,
so he could not overtake her.

But when she got back to Black Noggy, and told her how the
Mugger had broken the chatty, Black Noggy was fearfully
angry. "You naughty girl," she said, "you have broken the
chatty yourself, I have a good mind to beat you." And if
she had not been in such a hurry for the water she WOULD
have beaten her.

Then she went and fetched the great big chatty that the
dhobi used to boil the clothes in. "Take this," said she,
"and mind you don't break it, or I WILL beat you."

"But I can't carry that when it is full of water," said
Little Black Mingo.

"You must go twice, and bring it half full each time," said
Black Noggy.

So Little Black Mingo took the dhobi's great big chatty, and
started again to go to the river. But first she went to a