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In fact Noel was actually dressing up for the page when Albert-next-door kicked over the prison ewer. We got a sheet of paper out of an old exercise-book, and we made H. O. prick his own thumb, because he is our little brother and it is our duty to teach him to be brave. We none of us mind pricking ourselves; we've done it heaps of times.
'It wasn't wrong the way we did it, said Alice, quicker still, before Oswald could say, 'Who asked you to tell us anything about it? which would have been rude, and he is glad he didn't. 'We only caught Albert-next-door.
I give it up to you. But she didn't, and we did it together. We let Albert-next-door be sub-editor, because he had hurt his foot with a nail in his boot that gathered. When it was done Albert-next-door's uncle had it copied for us in typewriting, and we sent copies to all our friends, and then of course there was no one left that we could ask to buy it. We did not think of that until too late.
'I don't like worms neither. Albert-next-door said this; but we remembered how he had picked a fat red and black worm up in his fingers and thrown it at Dora only the day before. So we put him in.
So Albert-next-door began to dig with his feet, and we stood on the ground over him, waiting and all in a minute the ground gave way, and we tumbled together in a heap: and when we got up there was a little shallow hollow where we had been standing, and Albert-next-door was underneath, stuck quite fast, because the roof of the tunnel had tumbled in on him.
'Oh, Albert-next-door! said Dora contemptuously, and I felt more comfortable; for even after I didn't say, 'Who asked you, and cetera, I was afraid Dora was going to come the good elder sister over us. She does that a jolly sight too often. Dicky looked up from the paper he was reading and said, 'This sounds likely, and he read out
He is so unlucky, and she sighed. Then Albert-next-door began to scream again, and his uncle wiped his face his own face, not Albert's with his silk handkerchief, and then he put it in his trousers pocket. It seems a strange place to put a handkerchief, but he had his coat and waistcoat off and I suppose he wanted the handkerchief handy. Digging is warm work.
You'll wish I had afterwards. You never saw such a guy. 'I can see you! said H. O. It was very rude, and Oswald told him so at once, because it is his duty as an elder brother. But H. O. is very young and does not know better yet, and besides it wasn't bad for H. O. Albert-next-door said, 'You haven't any manners, and I want to go in to my tea. Let go of me!
We got the bread trencher for the wooden platter where the prisoner's crusts were put they were not mouldy, but we could not wait till they got so, and for the ewer we got the toilet jug out of the spare-room where nobody ever sleeps. And even then Albert-next-door couldn't be happy like the rest of us.
And now we are to go on living in the big house on the Heath, and it is very jolly. Mrs Leslie often comes to see us, and our own Robber and Albert-next-door's uncle. The Indian Uncle likes him because he has been in India too and is brown; but our Uncle does not like Albert-next-door. He says he is a muff. And I am to go to Rugby, and so are Noel and H. O., and perhaps to Balliol afterwards.
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