“No,” said Wagtail, “I totally forget it.” Bang, I saw was all this while chuckling to himself—“I absolutely forget it altogether.”
“Bless me,” said Gelid, “don’t you remember the beautiful calipeever we had that day?”
“Really I do not,” said Pepperpot, “I have had so many good feeds there.”
“Why,” continued Gelid, “Lord love you, Wagtail, not remember that calipeever, so crisp in the broiling?”
“No,” said Wagtail, “really I do not.”
“Lord, man, it had a pudding in its belly.”
“Oh, now I remember,” said Wagtail.
Bang laughed outright, and I could not help making a hole in my manners also, even prepared as I was for my jest by my sable crony Pegtop.—To proceed.
Aaron looked at me with one of his quizzical grins; “Cringle, my darling, do you keep these Logs still?”
“I do, my dear sir, invariably.”