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What's wrong with Robert? What is all the mystery about?" "This little box," said Bullard, patting it, "contains what I may call the Christopher Collection. No more questions now, if you please. Pray be seated. Are the servants ?" "Yes, yes! Open it! I must see " "Unfortunately we lack the key. However, my expert tin-opener ought now to be waiting outside.
In applying effort during the practice of Induced Autosuggestion, we use in the world of mind an instrument fashioned for use in the world of matter. It is as if we tried to solve a mathematical problem by mauling the book with a tin-opener.
In fact, all the children returned home with a vastly increased respect for the ability and punctuality of Collins and Eliza Pollard and Jan Masters. For a while the air was simply full of questions and remarks, some of which I copy down, and you may guess who asked them. "I say, Janet, where's the tin-opener?" "Janet, dear, ought we to have napkins?"
Buy as many as you want." Priscilla received the half-crown without any appearance of shame. "If you're prepared to lash out money in that way," she said, "we may as well have a tongue. Brannigan has small ones at one and sixpence. Brawn of course is cheaper, but then if you have brawn you want a tin-opener. The tongues are in glass jars which you can break with a stone or a rowlock.
It looks exactly as if it is gold, and, if it was, would be worth far more than any tin-opener." She went into the shop again. It was nearly ten minutes before she came out. Frank was seriously annoyed by a number of small children who crowded round the bath-chair and made remarks about his appearance.
"How dreadful, sir!" he murmured, in a voice that shook a little. "I have er sent for a tin-opener." The General was led to a chair, into which he sank wearily, while in hushed tones the Colonel explained what had happened to the shaking Staff. "I was told that the General had been seen going down to the front line alone," he remarked in a low tone, "and so I at once followed him.
We looked at the picture on the tin; we thought of the juice. We smiled at one another, and Harris got a spoon ready. Then we looked for the knife to open the tin with. We turned out everything in the hamper. We turned out the bags. We pulled up the boards at the bottom of the boat. We took everything out on to the bank and shook it. There was no tin-opener to be found.
From the upper right-hand corner a gigantic hand wielding a tin-opener rained a voluminous spray of metal, presumably, upon a cowering wretch in the lower left-hand corner, who was quite plainly all in.
He investigated his money-box, removing the top with a tin-opener. He found that he had there 3s. 3 1/2d.; a large sum, and enough to give him a royal time. Mary caught him. "Oh, Jeremy, what are you doing?" "Just counting my money," he said, with would-be carelessness. "You're going to the Fair?" she whispered breathlessly. He frowned. How could she know? She always knew everything.
"All right," said Priscilla, "if you'd rather not have it used I'll go and try to stick Brannigan for the loan of a tin-opener. He may not care for lending it, because things like tin-openers generally drop overboard and then of course he wouldn't get it back. But he'll hardly be able to refuse it I offer to deposit the safety pin in my tie as a hostage.
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