Noddy continued to gaze wistfully at her mistress and Polly said:
"Anne, did you feed the burros and horses?"
"Yes, just as you told me to."
"And make the beds?"
"Yes, everything."
Then Noddy ambled over to a pan of dirty snow water, in which the
explorers had washed their blackened faces. She would have to drink it,
if her mistress couldn't understand what she needed!
"Oh, you Noddy! Is _that_ what you want?" laughed Polly, taking the
pan and running out to the ledge to fill it with clean snow. This she
brought back and melted to provide drink for the burro.
"Did your thoughtless foster-mother forget a drink for her little
Noddy!" crooned Polly, placing the pan for the thirsty burro. "After
all that hard climbing and 'first-aid,' too!"
The other girls laughed at the wise little burro and her doting
mistress, but Polly turned and said: "It's lucky Noddy reminded me! We
must water the horses well to-night if we want them in good shape for
to-morrow."
So Eleanor and Polly gave drink to the thirsty animals while Anne took
what was supposed to be a chocolate cake from the bottom of the
pannier. It had been so shaken up during transit that the paper felt
sticky.
While they all watched her open the bundle, Noddy went back to her
finger-stall to sleep. Several wrappings of paper were unwound and
finally Anne took forth the surprise Sary had mentioned in the morning.
"Why! It's a lemon custard pie! Of all things!" cried Barbara.
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