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This time Papa Cotton-Tail went back with Tippy Toes and he said, "Dear Mother Cotton-Tail, do put on your thinking-cap and see if we have forgotten anything else, or we shall never get off." Then they looked high and low, but they could not find Mother Cotton-Tail's thinking-cap! Papa Cotton-Tail said, "Never mind, I will put on my thinking-cap instead."
But I somehow got the idea he must have been brought up near salt water. He talked so much sailor lingo." "Put on your thinking-cap, Henry," demanded his wife. "The gentlemen wants to know where that last letter was written from, what the postmark was, or the address inside, or what country the stamp belonged to. And if you don't know that, what are some of the other places he wrote to us from?"
Here we go sailing in and out of rocks, but do not be alarmed, I know them all. Perhaps you wonder what it is that we keep pressing against, something soft and smooth that sends extra sprays of water over us. What can it be? Well, now, put on your thinking-cap. What does your mother wash the baby with? What does Michael wash the carriage with?
While all the rest were in the hubbub of rejoicing, he put on his thinking-cap, and by-and-by began to see pretty well how things lay, and that, as they say in our town, there was a fly in the milk-jug. "Ho, ho!" thought he, "so the soldier has found out all about the three-legged stool, has he? Well, I will just put a spoke into his wheel for him."
I suppose you and that imp of mischief, Gwen, hatched it up between you? I saw she had got her thinking-cap on yesterday. I am not considered good enough for her lady mother. But, mark you, I'm going to have her for all that! It isn't good for man to live alone, and I have taken a fancy to Evelyn Emberdale." "You don't believe me?" Carey asked.
The latter fulfil most of their bodily requirements by muscular effort. If a horse wants to get from one place to another it walks; man can go on wheels. None of the lower animals makes a single tool to assist it in the various means of sustaining life; but man puts on his "thinking-cap", and invents useful machines and tools to enable him to assist or dispense with muscular movement.
"But we're far off the subject of Inez. I wish we could find her; but there seems no way." "Oh, Nan! are you sure? Put on your thinking-cap," begged Bess. "I have thought," her chum replied. "I thought of trying to trace her through the people who sell flowers to her. I asked Mrs.
So he put on his red silk thinking-cap and said, "Oh, I know what we have forgotten; we have forgotten to send Bunny and Susan a present!" "To be sure," said Mother Cotton-Tail, "Now what shall the present be?" Little Tippy Toes did not get started on his journey that day, for it took four days and fourteen hours for them to decide what to send Bunny and Susan.
Clavering?" "I should be greatly surprised, that's all." Not knowing what further objection to make, I remained silent. "And this head of mine would have to put on its thinking-cap," he pursued jovially. "Mr. Gryce," I now said, anxious to show that all this talk about an unknown party had not served to put my own plans from my mind, "there is one person of whom we have not spoken."
"I have come to ask you to get your thinking-cap on," Lois replied. "My thinking-cap! Why, bless your heart, it's always on, day and night." "That's good, Captain. But first I wish to ask you a few questions." "Drive ahead, then, I'm ready." "You have often sailed to Liverpool, have you not?" "Sure. Know the place well." "You knew also of the Dockett Concern there, didn't you?
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