Tatlow The Sailor - Part Two by J.M.Okano

     "Swimming!  Why, yes, I would love to go swimming.  What is swimming?  I've never been swimming.  I was only born yesterday, you know," said Tatlow with joy.
     Next day they went swimming at the beach.  Tatlow was a natural.  They swam in a race and won!  So they were given the prize of a meal on board a big cruise ship hosted by the captain with crab and sparkling apple juice to drink.
     "Now we'd better get down to wwwork," said Saskia.  "In order to achieve our plans, you of getting a healthy amount of stuffing so you can walk right and me of speaking without a ssspeech impediment, we would improve our lot if we had transportation and for that we need to earn money."
     "What will we do?"  asked Tatlow.
     "Hhhelp me hoist the grand piano out of the window, ppplease," she asked.
     Tying ropes around the piano and gingerly lowering it from the living room window took some doing, especially for a doll, but it was done in an hour.  Soon the piano was on solid ground outside the old cattle market on the street and Saskia was playing sweet music for passers-by while Tatlow told jokes.  A wandering minstrel playing a xylophone joined them and all three split their sides laughing when Tatlow told his jokes. 
     "Which Dutch city do rodents like the best?"  asked Tatlow.  "Hamsterdam!"
    They decided to pool their resources.  People paid them money in the form of coins thrown in a hat.   When they had earnt enough, they bought a cow.

TO BE CONTINUED