ky do you mean by sitting on my feet? Get off! Get off at
once!"

THE BOOLOOROO OF THE BLUES

CHAPTER 5

Cap'n Bill suspected that these remarks were addressed to him, but he
couldn't move just then because the seat was across him, and a boy and
girl were sprawling on the seat. As the Magic Umbrella was now as
motionless as any ordinary umbrella might be, Button-Bright first
released the catch and closed it up, after which he unhooked the
crooked handle from the rope and rose to his feet. Trot had managed by
this time to stand up, and she pulled the board off from Cap'n Bill.
All this time the shrill, excited voice was loudly complaining because
the sailor was on his feet, and Trot looked to see who was making the
protest, while Cap'n Bill rolled over and got on his hands and knees so
he could pull his meat leg and his wooden leg into an upright position,
which wasn't a very easy thing to do.

Button-Bright and Trot were staring with all their might at the
queerest person they had ever seen. They decided it must be a man
because he had two long legs, a body as round as a ball, a neck like an
ostrich, and a comical little head set on the top of it. But the most
curious thing about him was his skin, which was of a lovely sky-blue
tint. His eyes were also sky-blue, and his hair, which was trained
straight up and ended in a curl at the top of his head, was likewise
blue in color and matched his skin and his eyes. He wore tight-fitting
clothes made of sky-blue silk, with a broad blue ruffle around his long
neck, and on his breast glittered a magnificent jewel in the form of a
star, set with splendid blue stones.

If the blue man astonished the travelers, they were no less surprised
by his surroundings, for look where they might, everything they beheld
was of the same blue color as the sky above. They seemed to have landed
in a large garden, surrounded by a high wall of blue stone. The trees
were all blue, the grass was blue, the flowers were blue, and even the
pebbles in the paths were blue. There were many handsomely carved
benches and seats of blue wood scattered about the garden, and near
them stood a fountain made of blue marble, which shot lovely sprays of
blue water into the blue air.

But the angry inhabitants of this blue place would not permit them to
look around them in peace, for as soon as Cap'n Bill rolled off his
toes, he began dancing around in an excited way and saying very
disrespectful thing