(See Note D.) We were not angry with the lady for selling us about it being Canterbury, because she had really kept it up first-rate.

And she asked us if we minded, very handsomely, and we said we liked it.

But now we did not care how soon we got home.

The lady saw this, and said-- 'Come, our chariots are ready, and our horses caparisoned.' That is a first-rate word out of a book.

It cheered Oswald up, and he liked her for using it, though he wondered why she said chariots.