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I have told her a hundred times that the wall is unsafe." "Shall I go and warn her the hundred-and-first time?" asked Loo, willing enough. "Yes, my friend, do. And speak to her severely. She is only a child, remember." "Yes I will remember that."
But by this time the inhabitants of the country had begun to realise their danger; and all the mothers were so careful, and all the children were so obedient, that, for a long time, the hundred-and-first corner remained empty.
But the next moment the thought came to her of her poor little brother Hector, standing in the hundred-and-first corner of Rumpty-Dudget's tower, with his face to the wall and his hands behind his back.
Charity is generous; it runs a risk willingly, and in spite of a hundred successive experiences, it thinks no evil at the hundred-and-first. We cannot be at the same time kind and wary, nor can we serve two masters love and selfishness. We must be knowingly rash, that we may not be like the clever ones of the world, who never forget their own interests.
I have told her a hundred times that the wall is unsafe." "Shall I go and warn her the hundred-and-first time?" asked Loo, willing enough. "Yes, my friend, do. And speak to her severely. She is only a child, remember." "Yes I will remember that."
But the ball moved and unfolded itself, and a little cackling laugh came out of it, and it stood up on its legs. It was no other than Rumpty-Dudget himself. 'Now, my young prince, you will come with me and stand in my hundred-and-first corner! said he, with a malignant grin. 'No, I won't! said Hector.
The mighty Forest of Mystery, too, would be cut down and sold for firewood; and the elves and fairies would fly westward in pursuit of the flying sun. You may be sure, therefore, that Rumpty-Dudget tried with all his might to get hold of a child to put into that hundred-and-first corner.
At that Rumpty-Dudget took a piece of black string from his pocket and held one end of it to the black spot on Hector's chin; and it stuck to it so fast that all the pulling in the world could not pull it off. Then Rumpty-Dudget put the string over his shoulder, and so dragged Hector into his tower, and put him in the hundred-and-first corner.
Out of the little logic I had picked up at Oxford I tried to explain to him the process known as sorites; and suggested that Captain Pomery, while tolerant of "I attempt from Love's sickness to fly" up to the hundredth repetition, might conceivably show signs of tiring at the hundred-and-first.
But Tom used to say that, unless Hilda and her two brothers would agree always to make the wind blow from the south, the hundred-and-first corner in Rumpty-Dudget's tower would sooner or later be filled. 'How can we make the wind blow one way or the other? Hilda would ask. 'It all depends upon you, nevertheless, Tom would reply. 'Winds do not move of themselves, but people pull them.
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