So you see.
I have often thought that if the people who write books for children knew a little more it would be better.

I shall not tell you anything about us except what I should like to know about if I was reading the story and you were writing it.

Albert's uncle says I ought to have put this in the preface, but I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip.

I wonder other authors have never thought of this.
Well, when we had agreed to dig for treasure we all went down into the cellar and lighted the gas.

Oswald would have liked to dig there, but it is stone flags.