"Oh, what a dreadfully bad landing! Oh, Harold, how could you be so careless ?" She took the cringing Harold by the mane and slapped him violently once or twice.

Richard stretched out his riding-crop to the splashing policeman, murmuring: "Oh deah, deah...." "Don't be frightened," said the witch to the policeman.

"We'll soon get you out, and the water's so shallow you can't sink.

Talking of sinking, Richard, there's a question that puzzles me rather.

If a rat got on to a submarine, how would it behave?
A submarine, you see, is a sinking ship, and rats pride themselves so on knowing when to----" Sarah Brown seized the witch by the shoulder.