Redforth, or they will apply to pa.'

'Let 'em,' said the colonel. 'I do not care. Who's he?'

Tinkling here undertook the perilous task of remonstrating with his
lawless friend, who consented to withdraw the moody expressions
above quoted.

'What remains for us to do?' Alice went on in her mild, wise way.
'We must educate, we must pretend in a new manner, we must wait.'

The colonel clenched his teeth, - four out in front, and a piece of
another, and he had been twice dragged to the door of a dentist-
despot, but had escaped from his guards. 'How educate? How
pretend in a new manner? How wait?'

'Educate the grown-up people,' replied Alice. 'We part to-night.
Yes, Redforth,' - for the colonel tucked up his cuffs, - 'part to-
night! Let us in these next holidays, now going to begin, throw
our thoughts into something educational for the grown-up people,
hinting to them how things ought to be. Let us veil our meaning
under a mask of romance; you, I, and Nettie. William Tinkling
being the plainest and quickest writer, shall copy out. Is it
agreed?'

The colonel answered sulkily, 'I don't mind.' He then asked, 'How
about pretending?'

'We will pretend,' said Alice, 'that we are children; not that we
are those grown-up people who won't help us out as they ought, and