"As bald as bald," was the bewildering reply. "Now, Bruno, I'll tell you a story."

"And I'll tell oo a story," said Bruno, beginning in a great hurry for fear of Sylvie getting the start of him: "once there were a Mouse——a little tiny Mouse——such a tiny little Mouse! Oo never saw such a tiny Mouse——"

"Did nothing ever happen to it, Bruno?" I asked. "Haven't you anything more to tell us, besides its being so tiny?

"Nothing never happened to it," Bruno solemnly replied.