had given Marmaduke something to eat, for it was a long trip.

There were many wonderful things there, but as you're all yawning, and
we couldn't make sleepyheads understand, for that you'll have to wait
till another night.




XV

THE PEPPERMINT PAGODA


After Marmaduke and Wienerwurst, Ping Pong, Sing Song, and Ah See, had
scooted down the long hole for a few thousand miles or so, they began
to see light below them, a little circle of blue, just at the other
end, on the other side of the world. When their long journey was over,
they got up from their flatirons and stretched themselves, and
Wienerwurst got up from his haunches and stretched himself. Then one
by one they stuck their heads out of the bottom of the hole to take a
look at China.

A very pretty country it was, yet quite strange. The strangest thing
about it all was that now, though they were on the opposite side of
the world from the White House with the Green Blinds by the Side of
the Road, they weren't standing upside down. They could stand up
straight, with their heads--not their feet--in the air, and look at
the sun, at the bottom of the hole just as they did at the top, on the
farm back home.