and squirming about for a few minutes longer. "Isn't it awful hard
work dressing in a berth?"

Suddenly the engine bell clanged out more furiously than ever. The
whistle shrieked again and again. Mary Louise looked with frightened
eyes at the princess who gave a cry of terror and threw her arms about
her neck as the lights again went out. Then there was a sudden crash,
and the Iceberg Express shivered and toppled over.

The next instant Mary Louise and the Mermaid Princess found themselves
in the water.

It was quite warm and pleasant, and in a few minutes they reached the
surface. To their surprise they saw their fellow passenger, the little
Star Fish, swimming near them, and not far away, on a piece of ice,
the Polar Bear porter.

"Where are we?" asked Mary Louise. But no one replied to her question,
although the Star Fish looked all around, before and behind and both
sides at once, which I'm sure you can't do no matter how hard you
may try--while with his fifth eye he kept a bright lookout for sharks.

Presently the Polar Bear porter replied, "I think we are in the
Caribbean Sea."

And if you don't know where that is, please get out you map of North
America, although school is over, and find it.

"I never thought we'd get here so soon," said the little Star Fish
at last. "You see, I boarded the train somewhere off Cape Cod. And