10/20 There was two in the coffee-pot at breakfast time. Molars.' 'Very well, then,' argues the boy, 'what do you call names for ?' To which Mr Venus only replies, shaking his shock of dusty hair, and winking his weak eyes, 'Don't sauce ME, in the wicious pride of your youth; don't hit ME, because you see I'm down. You've no idea how small you'd come out, if I had the articulating of you.' This consideration seems to have its effect on the boy, for he goes out grumbling. |