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couldn't come either, but he came to the station to see us off, and waved his cap and called out 'Good hunting!' as the train started.
There was a lady in spectacles in the corner.

She was writing with a pencil on the edges of long strips of paper that had print all down them.

When the train started she asked-- 'What was that he said ?' So Oswald answered-- 'It was "Good hunting"-- it's out of the Jungle Book!' 'That's very pleasant to hear,' the lady said; 'I am very pleased to meet people who know their Jungle Book.

And where are you off to--the Zoological Gardens to look for Bagheera ?' We were pleased, too, to meet some one who knew the Jungle Book.
So Oswald said-- 'We are going to restore the fallen fortunes of the House of Bastable--and we have all thought of different ways--and we're going to try them all.