"I'll promise to ask Mr.Kneebreeches, I will indeed.

In fact, he was telling me something just like it to-day or yesterday--which should I say ?--at my astronomy lesson.

And that makes it so strange that you should have brought me up here to-night to see for myself, doesn't it, cuckoo ?" "An odd coincidence," said the cuckoo.
"What _would_ Mr.Kneebreeches think if I told him where I had been ?" continued Griselda.

"Only, you see, cuckoo, I never tell anybody about what I see when I am with you." "No," replied the cuckoo; "better not.

('Not that you could if you tried,' he added to himself.) You're not frightened now, Griselda, are you ?" "No, I don't think I am," she replied.