"How late are you going to stay here in the morning ?" "I don't know," said the head, yawning vastly.

"It depends on the country.

I shan't go till after breakfast, anyhow.

But I'm much too tired to talk now.

Goodnight, Slowcoach." "Good night, Snail," said Robert.
And that is how the Avories came to know the great Hamish MacAngus; for when Robert led them round to visit him the next morning ("And it is right for us to call first," said Janet, "since we have lived here longer"), they found that the owner of the Snail was nothing less than the famous--But I must tell you in the next chapter..