"I'm your Aunt Lettie," replied the goat. "I've come to pay you a long
visit. Oh, I'm so glad I found you, for I feared I would never get to your
house! See, I have brought you some apple turnovers, and some gooseberry
tarts. Now let's hurry home, but first kiss me."

So Aunt Lettie kissed them all, even Bully, the frog, and then she and the
Wibblewobble children went to the ducks' pen, where she stayed several
days.

And quite a number of things happened, too. In fact, one took place the
very next day, as you shall hear to-morrow night, when I am going to tell
you about Lulu and the pussy willows, provided a doggie with a yellow nose
and pink ears doesn't scare me.




STORY XIV

LULU AND THE PUSSY WILLOWS


"What shall we do now?" asked Lulu the next morning after Aunt Lettie
came, and the duck children had gone out to play, leaving their mamma and
the old lady goat to do the dishes.

"Let's go see the fairy prince," suggested Alice.

"Oh, you're always thinking of that fairy prince," objected Jimmie. "I say