Don't you know that if the world and everything in it, counting yourself of course, was all made little enough to go into a walnut, you'd never find out the difference." "_Wouldn't_ I ?" said Griselda, feeling rather muddled; "but, _not_ counting myself, cuckoo, I would then, wouldn't I ?" "Nonsense," said the cuckoo hastily; "you've a great deal to learn, and one thing is, not to _argue_.

Nobody should argue; it's a shocking bad habit, and ruins the digestion.

Come up here and sit beside me comfortably.

Catch hold of the chain; you'll find you can manage if you try." "But it'll stop the clock," said Griselda.

"Aunt Grizzel said I was never to touch the weights or the chains." "Stuff," said the cuckoo; "it won't stop the clock.