"He stared and stared and stared!" "Wondering where he'd seen me before, I suppose.

I expect the green stains on my coat reminded him.

I got them hauling up his precious dog." "It wasn't with him in the wood." "Oh, it's sitting by the fire drinking linseed tea! It looked a pampered brute." "We shall have to scoot to keep clear of Teddie." "All right.

Scooterons-nous.

Thank goodness, there's the hedge of The Woodlands! We'll slip in through the little side gate." The three certainly merited discovery for their misdeeds, but on this occasion they evaded justice; for, as luck would have it, they reached the house just a moment or two before the rest of the school, and Miss Teddington, who was in a hurry to pack her boxes of snowdrops, concluded that they must have been in front with Ulyth and Lizzie, and did not stop to remember that she had left them tying Winnie's shoelace by the roadside.