CHAPTER 5.
DIOGENES AND MOSES The Sea View disappointment being so keenly felt, Mrs.Avory decided to give the children an extra holiday of a fortnight at once, in which to taste the delights of the caravan, and meanwhile she would herself go down to the Isle of Wight to try to find other rooms; and it was arranged that Mary Rotheram and one of her brothers and Horace Campbell should be squeezed into the party too.

Jack and William Rotheram therefore tossed up for it, and Jack won.
This suddenness, as we shall see, was very fortunate, but it threw Mr.
Lenox into a state of perspiration quite strange to him.
"My dear Jenny," he said to Mrs.Avory, "how am I to get a horse to do you credit, if you hurry me so?
A horse is an animal requiring the most careful study.

Each one of its four legs needs separate consideration.
I should have liked some weeks of thought.

The dog, too.

Just as there is only one satisfactory horse in the world for each family, so is there only one satisfactory dog; and you ask me to get both in a few minutes." He lay back and fanned himself.
Then he pulled two pennies from his pocket and gave them to Gregory, and told him to go to the station bookstall and bring back the _Exchange_ and _Mart._ The _Exchange_ and _Mart,_ as perhaps you may not know, is, without any exaggeration, the most delightful paper in the world.