Do you see, Preston?
That will do nicely." "England will be all pink blotting paper by and by," said Preston.
"Then it will be very curious," said Daisy.

"Were new kings _always_ coming to push out the old ones ?" "Not like William the Conqueror.

But yet it was something very like that, Daisy.

When a king died, two of his children would both want the place; so they would fight." "But two men fighting would not make a battle-field." "O Daisy, Daisy!" cried Preston; "do you know no better than that ?" "Well, but who else would fight with them ?" "Why, all the kingdom! Part would fight for the right, you know, as the Saxons did with Harold; and part would fight to be the best fellows and to get the fat places." "Fat places ?" said Daisy.

At which Preston went off into one of his laughs.