You can imagine the smash there was when they struck the stone floor.
"Papa rushed down to investigate, at the first alarm.

He found that it was only Howl and Henny playing hook-and-ladder with a little red wagon.

They had taken an old flannel blouse of Kenny's and set fire to it.

Howl explained that they did it because woollen rags make such a nice thick smoke, and last a long time, and when they yelled fire they were not to blame, he said, if other people didn't know that they were 'jes' a-playin', and went and yelled in earnest.' "Papa took their part, and said that two boys with as much energy as they have must find an outlet somewhere, and that it was no wonder that they were restless, cooped up in a hotel day after day, with no amusement but their prim walks with the maid and the poodle.

But the old gentleman who had been so frightened that he ran out in public without his teeth, and the woman who had thrown her toilet bottles out of the window and broken them, were furious.