"Where did you get swords from ?" "Out of a cupboard," said I."And I saw pistols in it,--and jam,--and pills.

And there was no daylight in the room, but it was all lighted up with candles." "That's true, Mum," said Mr.Pumblechook, with a grave nod.

"That's the state of the case, for that much I've seen myself." And then they both stared at me, and I, with an obtrusive show of artlessness on my countenance, stared at them, and plaited the right leg of my trousers with my right hand.
If they had asked me any more questions, I should undoubtedly have betrayed myself, for I was even then on the point of mentioning that there was a balloon in the yard, and should have hazarded the statement but for my invention being divided between that phenomenon and a bear in the brewery.

They were so much occupied, however, in discussing the marvels I had already presented for their consideration, that I escaped.
The subject still held them when Joe came in from his work to have a cup of tea.

To whom my sister, more for the relief of her own mind than for the gratification of his, related my pretended experiences.
Now, when I saw Joe open his blue eyes and roll them all round the kitchen in helpless amazement, I was overtaken by penitence; but only as regarded him,--not in the least as regarded the other two.