One of the boys dresses up like a lady and comes to call, and another tries to hit his little sister with a hoe.

It's jolly fine, I tell you.' Denny is learning to say what he thinks, just like other boys.

He would never have learnt such words as 'ripping' and 'jolly fine' while under the auntal tyranny.
Since then I have read The Daisy Chain.

It is a first-rate book for girls and little boys.
But we did not want to talk about The Daisy Chain just then, so Oswald said-- 'But what's your lark ?'Denny got pale pink and said-- 'Don't hurry me.

I'll tell you directly.