I can't.

How would you like to ?" Here was a thunderbolt! I had a fair day's work mapped out for myself as it was.

Now I was to be saddled with a pair of teasing young female fidgets, and held responsible for their good behaviour and general comfort! What did people take me for?
Why, the Mile itself wouldn't take it out of me half as much.
"All right," said I, "where are they ?" "I'm going home; I'll send them down sharp before the crowd comes.
Thanks awfully, youngster." And off he went, leaving me pretty full up with the cares of this deceitful world.
I proceeded to bag the nine best seats on the stand, which, as nobody else had yet put in an appearance, was easy enough without the trying necessity of sitting on them all at the same time.

When the crowd arrived, it would be time enough to consider how I should then have to act.
I had not been long in possession when two dainty little figures in pink bore down hand-in-hand upon me, presumably under the protection of a nurse, who, however, was not in it when it came to racing.
"There's horrid Sarah," remarked Mamie, "who tried to drown me." "Never mind," said Gladys, "he was nearly burned to death to punish him for being wicked." "I hate him because he never gives us sweeties," said Mamie.
"Never mind," said Gladys; "Bobby says it's not his fault that he's a mule.

I don't like mules though, do you ?" "I hate them," said the uncompromising Mamie.
"Please, Master Jones," said the nurse, "the mistress says will you see the young ladies behave nicely and don't dirty their frocks?
Be good girls now," she added, by way of final admonition, as she departed.
I watched her go with the helpless despair of a man on a spar who watches the lifeboat put off with its last load for the shore.