Denny wanted to be the Miller, but in the end he was the Doctor, because it was next door to Dentist, which is what we call him for short.

Daisy was to be the Prioress--because she is good, and has 'a soft little red mouth', and H.O.WOULD be the Manciple (I don't know what that is), because the picture of him is bigger than most of the others, and he said Manciple was a nice portmanteau word--half mandarin and half disciple.
'Let's get the easiest parts of the dresses ready first.' Alice said--'the pilgrims' staffs and hats and the cockles.' So Oswald and Dicky braved the fury of the elements and went into the wood beyond the orchard to cut ash-sticks.

We got eight jolly good long ones.

Then we took them home, and the girls bothered till we changed our clothes, which were indeed sopping with the elements we had faced.
Then we peeled the sticks.

They were nice and white at first, but they soon got dirty when we carried them.