paws. "You just purr to it, sir," he said,
"and it'll be as good as gold." So the dragon purred, and his purring pleased the baby so much that
it stopped crying. Then John rummaged

among the heap of old iron and found
there some heavy chains and a great collar that had been made in

the days when men sang over their work and
put their hearts into it, so that

the things they made were strong enough to bear the weight of a thousand years, let alone a dragon. John fastened the dragon up with the collar and the chains, and when he had padlocked
them all on safely he set to work to find out how man y rivets would be

needed. "Six, eight, ten--twenty,
forty," said he. "I haven't half