all strangers to paws." 

 "I should think it was a bearicade," remarked the Woggle-Bug. 

 But when they approached the gateway the officer in charge saluted respectfully to Miss Chim, and permitted her to escort the Woggle-Bug into the sacred precincts of the Inner Jungle. 

 Here his eyes were soon opened to their widest capacity in genuine astonishment. 

 The Jungle was as clean and as well-regulated as any city of men the Insect had ever visited. Just within the gate a sleek antelope was running a pop-corn stand, and a little further on a screech-owl stood upon a stump playing a violin, while across her breast was a sign reading: "I am blind—at present." 

 As they walked up the street they came to a big grey monkey turning a hand-organ, and attached to a cord was a little nigger-boy whom the monkey sent into the crowd of animals, standing by to gather up the pennies, pulling him back every now and then by means of the cord. 

 "There's a curious animal for you," said Miss Chim, pointing to the boy. "Those horrid things they call men, whether black or white, seem to me the lowest of all created beasts." 

 "I have seen them in a highly civilized state," replied the Woggle-Bug, "and they're really further advanced than you might suppose." 

 But Miss Chim gave a scornful laugh, and pulled him away to where a hippopotamus sat under the shade of a big tree, mopping his brow with a red handkerchief—for the weather was somewhat sultry. Before the hip was a table covered with a blue cloth, and upon the cloth was embroidered the words: "Professor Hipmus, Fortune Teller." 

 "Want your fortune told?" asked Miss Chim. 

 "I don't mind," replied the Woggle-Bug. 

 "I'll read your hand," said the Professor, with a yawn that startled the insect. "To my notion palmistry is the best means of finding out what nobody knows or cares to know." 

 He took the upper-right hand of the Woggle-Bug, and after adjusting his spectacles bent over it with an air of great wisdom. 

 "You have been in love," announced the Professor; "but you got it in the neck." 

 "True!" murmured the astonished Insect, putting up his left lower hand to feel 

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