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Trot ate popcorn and found it crisp and slightly warm, as well as nicely salted
and buttered. Presently Cap'n Bill came out of the house and joined her.
"
"
What's this?" he asked.
Mo snow," said she. "But it isn't real snow, although it falls from the sky. It's
popcorn."
Cap'n Bill tasted it; then he sat down in the path and began to eat. The Ork
came out and pecked away with its bill as fast as it could. They all liked
popcorn and they all were hungry this morning.
Meantime the flakes of "Mo snow" came down so fast that the number of them
almost darkened the air. The Bumpy Man was now shoveling quite a distance
down the mountain-side, while the path behind him rapidly filled up with
fresh-fallen popcorn. Suddenly Trot heard him call out:
"
Goodness gracious--mince pie and pancakes!--here is some one buried in the
snow."
She ran toward him at once and the others followed, wading through the corn
and crunching it underneath their feet. The Mo snow was pretty deep where
the Bumpy Man was shoveling and from beneath a great bank of it he had
uncovered a pair of feet.
"
Dear me! Someone has been lost in the storm," said Cap'n Bill. "I hope he is
still alive. Let's pull him out and see."
He took hold of one foot and the Bumpy Man took hold of the other. Then they
both pulled and out from the heap of popcorn came a little boy. He was
dressed in a brown velvet jacket and knickerbockers, with brown stockings,
buckled shoes and a blue shirt-waist that had frills down its front. When
drawn from the heap the boy was chewing a mouthful of popcorn and both his
hands were full of it. So at first he couldn't speak to his rescuers but lay quite
still and eyed them calmly until he had swallowed his mouthful. Then he said:
"
Get my cap," and stuffed more popcorn into his mouth.
While the Bumpy Man began shoveling into the corn-bank to find the boy's
cap, Trot was laughing joyfully and Cap'n Bill had a broad grin on his face.
The Ork looked from one to another and asked:
"
Who is this stranger?"
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