But these things cost money, and it would not be any use starting with less than thirty pounds'-- "Thirty pounds! My goodness!" cried Erebus; and her eyes opened wide.
"We may as well go the whole hog," said the Terror philosophically.
"Go on: 'Or else just as the cats get to be happy and feel it was a real home--' What's the word for 'bust up,' Wiggins ?" "Burst up," said Wiggins without hesitation.
"No, no; not the grammar--the right word! Oh, I know; 'go bankrupt'-- 'it might go bankrupt.

So it you would like to have a cats' home here and send me some money, I will start it at once.

Your affectionate nephew, Hyacinth Wolfram Dangerfield.' There!" said the Terror with a sigh of relief.
"But you've left me out altogether," said Erebus in a suddenly aggrieved tone.
"I should jolly well think I had! You know that ever since you stayed with Aunt Amelia, and taught her parrot to say 'Dam,' she won't have anything to do with you," said the Terror firmly.
"There's no pleasing some people," said Erebus mournfully.

"When I went there the silly old parrot couldn't say a thing; and when I came away, he could say 'Dam! Dam! Dam!' from morning till night without making a mistake." "It's a word people don't like," said the Terror.
"Well, I and the parrot meant a dam in a river.

I told Aunt Amelia so," said Erebus firmly.
"She might not believe you; she doesn't know how truthfully we've been brought up," said the Terror.