Ere long a cart was descried approaching from eastwards, whose driver bawled snatches of song and puffed his hookah between whiles.

but there was none in the house; so I started to go and ask for a light from some neighbour; but as it was very dark I did not like to leave my wife all alone: nor did I like to send her out alone to ask for the light; so at last I took my hookah in my hand and set my wife astride on my shoulder and went round from house to house like that, asking for a light; and all the villagers laughed like anything; so I am a fool."

" "You'll get used to it in time," said the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again.

In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself.