how nice it would be if we could only get through into Looking- glass House!

Let's pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through.

Oh, what fun it'll be, when they see me through the glass in here, and can't get at me!'

She'll get tired of Jerry, and go off and marry a soldier, and we'll live happy ever after." "Think so?" I says.

Every opportunity you get. There's nothing like consulting a girl's folks to put you in good with her." And he pats Jerry on the shoulder again and goes indoors to find his pipe.

Then they examined the prizes, gathered up their things, and went off to the brook, where Martin swallowed huge draughts of water to get rid of the taste; and they visited the sedge-bird's nest, and from thence struck across the country in high glee, beating the hedges and brakes as they went along; and Arthur at last, to his intense delight, was allowed to climb a small hedgerow oak for a magpie's nest with Tom, who kept all round him like a mother, and showed him where to hold and how to throw his weight; and though he was in a great fright, didn't show it, and was applauded by all for his lissomness.

The farmer began to take Holmes for a master; besides, he wanted to get back to his flock.

How could a Presbyterian get along without a devil?"

But, mind you, Cornelia, I believe it's going to get the worst of it in the long run."

He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get. "Your exercise depends on your strength, my dear," said he, "and your food somewhat on your appetite; but air you can absorb all the time." So we took the nursery at the top of the house.

At first he meant to repaper the room, but afterwards he said that I was letting it get the better of me, and that nothing was worse for a nervous patient than to give way to such fancies.