themselves, or anything other people told them, only what they
found out.

After a brief jaw the others agreed, and Oswald felt, not for the
first time in his young life, that he would have made a good
diplomatic hero to carry despatches and outwit the other side. For
now he had put it out of the minute-book's power to be the kind of
thing readers of Ministering Children would have wished.

'And if anyone tells other people any good thing he's done he is to
go to Coventry for the rest of the day.'

And Denny remarked, 'We shall do good by stealth, and blush to find
it shame.'

After that nothing was written in the book for some time. I looked
about, and so did the others, but I never caught anyone in the act
of doing anything extra; though several of the others have told me
since of things they did at this time, and really wondered nobody
had noticed.

I think I said before that when you tell a story you cannot tell
everything. It would be silly to do it. Because ordinary kinds of
play are dull to read about; and the only other thing is meals, and
to dwell on what you eat is greedy and not like a hero at all. A
hero is always contented with a venison pasty and a horn of sack.
All the same, the meals were very interesting; with things you do
not get at home--Lent pies with custard and currants in them,
sausage rolls and fiede cakes, and raisin cakes and apple
turnovers, and honeycomb and syllabubs, besides as much new milk as