He was as concerned as a rabbit when it is cornered by a kangaroo dog.

Fanny showed slow approval. 'Good on yer!' she said admiringly.

But I had no guess of it then as I sat writing by the fireside, in what seemed the spring-tides of a somewhat pedestrian inspiration; nor yet day by day, after lunch, as I read aloud my morning's work to the family. It seemed to me original as sin; it seemed to belong to me like my right eye.

Their new record is the bomb.