chopped soap, but he says he thought the suet was soap too.

Thursday.--Broke the kitchen window by falling against it during a
perfectly fair game of bandits in the area.

Friday.--Stopped up grating of kitchen sink with putty and filled
sink with water to make a lake to sail paper boats in. Went away
and left the tap running. Kitchen hearthrug and cook's shoes
ruined.

On Saturday the carpet was restored. There had been plenty of time
during the week to decide where it should be asked to go when they
did get it back.

Mother had gone over to granny's, and had not taken the Lamb
because he had a bad cough, which, cook repeatedly said, was
whooping-cough as sure as eggs is eggs.

'But we'll take him out, a ducky darling,' said Anthea. 'We'll
take him somewhere where you can't have whooping-cough. Don't be
so silly, Robert. If he DOES talk about it no one'll take any
notice. He's always talking about things he's never seen.'

So they dressed the Lamb and themselves in out-of-doors clothes,
and the Lamb chuckled and coughed, and laughed and coughed again,
poor dear, and all the chairs and tables were moved off the carpet
by the boys, while Jane nursed the Lamb, and Anthea rushed through
the house in one last wild hunt for the missing Phoenix.

'It's no use waiting for it,' she said, reappearing breathless in