know," replied little Mary Louise. "Perhaps there's
something on the track."

By this time all the passengers were thrusting their heads out through
the curtains of their berths.

"Porter, Porter!" called the Penguin, who had been vainly pressing the
electric call-button.

But as usual, when a porter was wanted he is nowhere to be found.

Then the Baby Seal began to cry. Suddenly all the lights went out.
Mary Louise hastily caught up her clothes and commenced dressing.
"Thank goodness," she said in a trembling voice, "I don't have to
bother with stockings!"

"I never was anything but a Mermaid," said the Princess in a frightened
whisper, "so I don't know anything about them!"

"Where's my waist?" asked Mary Louise, hardly able to keep from crying.
"I can't find it anywhere, and it's so dreadfully dark, too."

"Oh, dear me!" suddenly cried the Mermaid Princess. "I believe I'm
trying to get yours on over mine. I'm so excited I forgot that I
already had on my own."

"Well, I'm dressed at last," exclaimed Mary Louise after wriggling and
squirming about for a few minutes longer. "Isn't it awful hard work
dressing in a berth?"

Suddenly the engine bell clanged out more furiously than ever. The
whistle shrieked again and again. Mary Louise looked with frightened
eyes at the princess who gave a cry of terror and threw her arms about
her neck as the lights again went out. Then there was a sudden crash,
and the Iceberg Express shivered and toppled over.

The next instant Mary Louise and the Mermaid Princess found themselves
in the water.

It was quite warm and pleasant, and in a few minutes they reached the
surface. To their surprise they saw their fellow passenger, the little
Star Fish, swimming near them, and not far away, on a piece of ice, the
Polar Bear porter.

"Where are we?" asked Mary Louise. But no one replied to her question,
although the Star Fish looked all around, before and behind and both
sides at once, which I'm sure you can't do no matter how hard you may
try--while with his fifth eye he kept a bright lookout for sharks.

Presently the Polar Bear porter replied, "I think we are in the
Caribbean Sea."

And if you don't know where that is, please get out you map of North
America, although school is over, and find it.

"I never thought we'd get here so soon," said the little Star Fish at
last. "You see, I boarded the train somewhere off Cape Cod. And
that's a long way from here."