The little strangers only said 'I don't know' whenever we said anything to them.
After brekker Oswald beckoned his brothers and sisters mysteriously apart and said-- 'Do you agree to let me be captain today, because I thought of it ?' And they said they would.
Then he said, 'We'll play Jungle Book, and I shall be Mowgli.

The rest of you can be what you like--Mowgli's father and mother, or any of the beasts.' 'I don't suppose they know the book,' said Noel.

'They don't look as if they read anything, except at lesson times.' 'Then they can go on being beasts all the time,' Oswald said.

'Anyone can be a beast.' So it was settled.
And now Oswald--Albert's uncle has sometimes said he is clever at arranging things--began to lay his plans for the jungle.

The day was indeed well chosen.