We all enjoyed the ratting that day, but it ended, as usual, in the girls crying because of the poor rats.

Girls cannot help this; we must not be waxy with them on account of it, they have their nature, the same as bull-dogs have, and it is this that makes them so useful in smoothing the pillows of the sick-bed and tending wounded heroes.
However, the forts, and Pincher, and the girls crying, and having to be thumped on the back, passed the time very agreeably till dinner.

There was roast mutton with onion sauce, and a roly-poly pudding.
Albert's uncle said we had certainly effaced ourselves effectually, which means we hadn't bothered.
So we determined to do the same during the afternoon, for he told us his heroine was by no means out of the wood yet.
And at first it was easy.

Jam roly gives you a peaceful feeling and you do not at first care if you never play any runabout game ever any more.
But after a while the torpor begins to pass away.

Oswald was the first to recover from his.
He had been lying on his front part in the orchard, but now he turned over on his back and kicked his legs up, and said-- 'I say, look here; let's do something.' Daisy looked thoughtful.