He said-- 'They are beginning the preliminary excavation in readiness for to-morrow.' 'What's up to-morrow ?' H.O.

asked.
'To-morrow we propose to open this barrow and examine it.' 'Then YOU'RE the Antiquities ?' said H.O.
'I'm the secretary,' said the gentleman, smiling, but narrowly.
'Oh, you're all coming to tea with us,' Dora said, and added anxiously, 'how many of you do you think there'll be ?' 'Oh, not more than eighty or ninety, I should think,' replied the gentleman.
This took our breath away and we went home.

As we went, Oswald, who notices many things that would pass unobserved by the light and careless, saw Denny frowning hard.

So he said, 'What's up ?' 'I've got an idea,' the Dentist said.

'Let's call a council.' The Dentist had grown quite used to our ways now.