[The Magic City by Edith Nesbit]@TWC D-Link bookThe Magic City CHAPTER IV 25/53
Lie down and try to sleep it off a bit.
Eddication does go to your head something crool.
I've often noticed it.' And indeed Philip was quite glad to lie down among the long grass and be covered up with the carpenter's coat.
He fell asleep at once. An hour later he woke again, looked at the wrinkled-apple face of Mr. Perrin and began to remember. 'I'm glad _you're_ here anyhow,' he said to the carpenter; 'it was horribly lonely.
You don't know.' 'That's why I was sent to meet you,' said Mr.Perrin simply. 'But how did you know ?' 'Mr.Noah sent for me early this morning.
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