PART I
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCING THE LOP-EARED ONES AND OTHERS
"By Hobbs," cried Archie, as he began to put away the porridge, "I feel as fit as anything this morning. I'm absolutely safe for a century."
"You shouldn't boast with your mouth full," Myra told her brother.
"It wasn't quite full," pleaded Archie, "and I really am good for runs to-day."
"You will make," I said, "exactly fourteen."
"Hallo, good-morning. Didn't see you were there."
"I have been here all the time. Fourteen."
"It seems a lot," said Myra doubtfully.
Archie laughed in scorn.