Slattery seems never to have asked any one to ride a tandem.

But when I had written it, it seemed so dreadfully stiff that I had to put a little beginning and end of my own, which seemed to brighten it up a good deal." "I thought there was something funny about the beginning and end." "Did you?
Fancy your noticing the difference in style.

How quick you are! I am very slow at things like that.

I ought to have been a woodman, or game-keeper, or something.

I was made on those lines.