8/10 "People used to believe in all kinds of nonsense--magicians, and fiery serpents and dragons, and things that we laugh about now. There, one can't help feeling a bit shrinky, after all we've heard and been frightened with by people ever since we were little bits of chaps; but I mean to go. There's nothing worse about the Scraw than there is about other dangerous places." "Ah! you say so now because it's broad daylight and the sun shines, but you'd talk differently if it was dark as pitch." "Shouldn't go if it was dark as pitch, because we shouldn't know where we were going. I say, you're not going to turn tail ?" "No," said Mike, "I'll go with you; but one can't help feeling a bit shrinky. I'm ready: come on." "Let's seem as if we were not going, then," said Vince. |