When the people saw him coming they yelled 'murder!' all together, and ran and rolled faster than before, and every house in the village slammed its doors. As for the Girabbit it never stopped jumping till it was quite lost in the distance; and Mr. Bliss wept big tears at losing it.

After lunch the bears made out a bill for helping; and Mr. Bliss went and got his purse and his money-box, for he thought the time had come to settle up. I thought you would like to see what all these adventures cost him, by the time everything was paid for. It was a very expensive time.

This is a copy of a note Mr. Bliss made in his diary when it was all over.

It quite emptied his money-box (except for one or two foreign coins he kept for collections); so he did not go away for a holiday that summer.

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