"Brady, have you missed anything?" asked Cadbury a few days later.
"No, I don't think so," replied Jack, feeling doubtfully in his pockets.
"Because you have certainly lost something," continued Cadbury.
"Well, give it me quick, then," said Jack, laughing. "Whatever is it?"
"I can't give it you. It's gone for ever," was the rejoinder. "You'll never have it again."
"Well, what was it, then? Nothing valuable, I hope?"
"When two things are made into one thing, you can't speak of them any longer as 'both'; can you?"
"Fetch us a grammar, Toppin," said Jack. "We're getting out of our depths. Have I lost two things, please, Cadbury, or only one?"
"Don't frivol, Jack! listen to me. We are all one-sided now, so you have lost your title. You can never again be called Jack of Both Sides."
THE END