18/35 They used to work spells or something with a goat and a goose. Father says so.' 'Well, that's all right,' said Robert, unkindly; 'you can play the goat right enough, and Jane knows how to be a goose.' 'I'll get Ingoldsby,' said Anthea, hastily. 'You turn up the hearthrug.' So they traced strange figures on the linoleum, where the hearthrug had kept it clean. They traced them with chalk that Robert had nicked from the top of the mathematical master's desk at school. You know, of course, that it is stealing to take a new stick of chalk, but it is not wrong to take a broken piece, so long as you only take one. |