I'm sure the paper was a necessary, just as much as the bread and
meat and water. Now then! Oh, my eyes, I am hungry!'

I do not wish to describe the picnic party on the top of the tower.
You can imagine well enough what it is like to carve a chicken and
a tongue with a knife that has only one blade - and that snapped
off short about half-way down. But it was done. Eating with your
fingers is greasy and difficult - and paper dishes soon get to look
very spotty and horrid. But one thing you CAN'T imagine, and that
is how soda-water behaves when you try to drink it straight out of
a syphon - especially a quite full one. But if imagination will
not help you, experience will, and you can easily try it for
yourself if you can get a grown-up to give you the syphon. If you
want to have a really thorough experience, put the tube in your
mouth and press the handle very suddenly and very hard. You had
better do it when you are alone - and out of doors is best for this
experiment.

However you eat them, tongue and chicken and new bread are very
good things, and no one minds being sprinkled a little with
soda-water on a really fine hot day. So that everyone enjoyed the
dinner very much indeed, and everyone ate as much as it possibly
could: first, because it was extremely hungry; and secondly,
because, as I said, tongue and chicken and new bread are very nice.

Now, I daresay you will have noticed that if you have to wait for
your dinner till long after the proper time, and then eat a great
deal more dinner than usual, and sit in the hot sun on the top of
a church-tower - or even anywhere else - you become soon and
strangely sleepy. Now Anthea and Jane and Cyril and Robert were