is?"

"I don't know. Now I told you, when Miss Persnips came down here, that
thing in her arms, and she smilin' and blinkin', as if she had an armful
of gold, that she was givin' you an elephant rather than a rabbit. Nobody
knows where the critter is or what it is up to."

Charlie found the white pet, and asked Will what he thought the rabbit
looked like.

"Looks more like a rabbit than any thing else, Charlie."

"Aunt Stanshy called it an elephant."

"Well, you might say elephant, the white elephant of Siam--sort of a
distant cousin. Why, what do you ask the question for?"

Charlie grinned, but made no reply.

Every thing was made ready for the sale. Aunt Stanshy's two rooms were the
scene of much bustle, and while the boys were at their tables, Miss Barry
in a tastily-draped corner was ready for a reasonable sum to serve out
refreshments to every applicant.

The Helping-Hand Sale had various attractions. Among them was Charlie's
"maginary." It was a box covered with white cloth, a piece of workmanship
at which Charlie had been secretly tinkering for two days. It was labeled
"A Distant Cousin of the White Elephant of Siam. Price to see, three
cents, and don't tell when you've seen it."