I have walked over twenty miles a day, many times, not because I had to do it, but as a day's pleasure with a friend." "Can you shoot, cousin ?" "No," Dick laughed.

"There is nothing to shoot at.

There are no wild beasts in England, and no game birds anywhere near London." Dick saw, at once, that he had descended many steps in his cousins' estimation.
"Then what can you find to do ?" the younger boy asked.
"Oh, there is plenty to do," Dick said.

"In the first place, there is school.

That takes the best part of the day.