With its beautiful lawns and its glistening gravelled walks; with amodern house perfect in every detail; with its murmuring brookletrushing away into a perspective of nodding green trees and with thebright sunshine smiling a welcome over all it made a picturecalculated to charm the most hardened city crab that ever crawledaway from the cover of the skyscrapers.

As for Clara J. she simply threw up both arms and screamed forhelp. She danced and yelled with delight. Then she hugged andkissed me with a thousand reiterated thanks for my glorious present.

I felt as joyous as a jelly fish. Ten-legged microbes began toclimb into my pores. Everything I had in my system rushed to myhead. I could see myself in the giggle-giggle ward in a bat home,playing I always was the king of England.