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"She did not say to the sun good-night, / As she watched him there like a ball of light, / For she knew he had God's time to keep / All over the world, and never could sleep. "
How, I can't tell, but, after all, _some_how the packing got done, and everything was ready. They left a _few_ things behind that Herr Baby would certainly have taken had he had the settling of it. They didn't take the horses, _nor_ the fireplaces, and, of course, as the horses weren't to go, Thomas and Jones had to be left behind too to take care of them, which troubled Baby a good deal. And no doubt Thomas and Jones would have been _very_ unhappy if it hadn't been for the nice way Baby spoke to them about coming back soon, and the letters he would send them on their birthdays, and that he would never like any other Thomases and Joneses as much as them. It was really quite nice to hear him, and Jones had to turn his head away a little -- Baby was afraid it was to hide that he was crying.