"You must call it 'hot cockalorum,' and what this?" he went on,
pointing to the water.

"Water or wet, or whatever you please, sir."

"No, 'pondalorum' is its name. And what do you call all this?" asked
he, as he pointed to the house.

"House or cottage, or whatever you please, sir."

"You must call it 'high topper mountain.'"

That very night the servant woke her master up in a fright and said:
"Master of all masters, get out of your barnacle and put on your
squibs and crackers. For white-faced simminy has got a spark of hot
cockalorum on its tail, and unless you get some pondalorum high topper
mountain will be all on hot cockalorum." .... That's all.



THE THREE HEADS OF THE WELL

Long before Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, there reigned
in the eastern part of England a king who kept his Court at
Colchester. In the midst of all his glory, his queen died, leaving
behind her an only daughter, about fifteen years of age, who for her
beauty and kindness was the wonder of all that knew her. But the king
hearing of a lady who had likewise an only daughter, had a mind to
marry her for the sake of her riches, though she was old, ugly, hook-
nosed, and hump-backed. Her daughter was a yellow dowdy, full of envy