p and
caught him about the waist. In his efforts to free himself he dropped
his clock to the ground outside, when it burst with a loud explosion,
and the house instantly disappeared.

[Illustration: "NEXT CAME MARY FARINA."]

This was so unexpected, and seemed so serious a matter, that Davy was
much distressed, wondering what had become of his dear old grandmother,
and Mrs. Frump, the cook, and Mary Farina, the housemaid, and Solomon,
the cat. However, before he had time to make any inquiries of the
Goblin, his grandmother came dropping down through the air in her
rocking-chair. She was quietly knitting, and her chair was gently
rocking as she went by. Next came Mrs. Frump, with her apron quite full
of kettles and pots, and then Mary Farina, sitting on a step-ladder with
the coal-scuttle in her lap. Solomon was nowhere to be seen. Davy,
looking over the side of the clock, saw them disappear, one after the
other, in a large tree on the lawn, and the Goblin informed him that
they had fallen into the kitchen of a witch-hazel tree, and would be
well taken care of. Indeed, as the clock sailed over the tree, Davy saw
that the trunk of it was hollow, and that a bright light was shining far
underground; and, to make the matter quite sure, a smell of cooking was
coming up through the hole. On one of the topmost boughs of the tree was
a nest with two sparrows in it, and he was much astonished at
discovering that they were lying side by side, fast asleep, with one of
his mittens spread over them for a coverlet. I am sorry to say that Davy
knew perfectly well where the other mitten was, and was ashamed to say
anything about it.

[Illustration: THE RABBIT TAKES LIBERTIES WITH DAVY'S PROPERTY.]

"I suppose my shoes are somewhere about," he said, sadly. "Perhaps the
squirrels are filling them with nuts."

"You're quite right," replied the Goblin, cheerfully; "and there's a
rabbit over by the hedge putting dried leaves into your hat. I rather
fancy he's about moving into it for the winter."

Davy was about to complain against such liberties being taken with his
property, when the clock began rolling over in the air, and he had just
time to grasp the sides of it to keep himself from falling out.

"Don't be afraid!" cried the Goblin, "she's only rolling a little;" and,
as he said this, the clock steadied itself and sailed serenely away past
the spire of the village church and off over the fields.

Davy now noticed that the Gobli