"No,I take them specially from good children,"said the Funny Thing gleefully,"and very good they are good children's dolls!"
"Oh,what shall I do?"thought Bobo,as he walked back and forth,back and forth.He was trying to think of plan to make this naughty aminal forget to eat dolls.
At last he had an idea!
So he said to the Funny Thing,"What a lovely tail you have!"
The Funny Thing smiled and wriggled his tail with a pleased motion.
"And those pretty black eyebrows,"Bobo continued.
The Funny Thing looked down modestly and smiled even more.
"But most wonderful of all is that row of blue points down your back,"said Bobo.
The Funny Thing was so pleased at this that he rolled foolishly on the ground and smiled very hard.
Then Bobo,who was really a wise old man,said to the Funny Thing,"I suppose you are so beautiful because you eat a great many jumjills?"
The Funny Thing had never heard of them.
"Jum-jills?"he asked eagerly."What is a jum-jill-is it a kind of doll?"
"Oh no,"said Bobo."Jum-jills are funny little cakes which make blue points more beautiful,and little tails grow into big ones."