Just then Pincher jumped up and knocked over the painting-water.

He is a very careless dog.

I wonder why painting-water is always such an ugly colour?
Dora ran for a duster to wipe it up, and H.O.dropped drops of the water on his hands and said he had got the plague.

So we played at the plague for a bit, and I was an Arab physician with a bath-towel turban, and cured the plague with magic acid-drops.

After that it was time for dinner, and after dinner we talked it all over and settled that we would go and see the Generous Benefactor the very next day.