to-day!" he exclaimed. "How did we forget about Boys!"
"It was because the Flood frightened us so much, that as soon as we were let out of the Ark we ran away as fast as we could, and burrowed deep into the earth, and we never have been on top since, so we never have seen any until this minute. Dear! Dear! Dear!" said her Majesty. "Deary, deary me!"
Barty quite blushed with pleasure. They were such nice, old, long- haired, aged, aged benevolent things.
"I am very glad that I am a boy," he said, "if it was a boy
