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Updated: May 29, 2025
We got three pairs of the uncle's, and one that had belonged to the housekeeper's grandfather, but nine pairs were needed, because Albert-next-door mouched in one half-holiday and wanted to join, and said if we'd let him he'd write a paper on the Constitutions of Clarendon, and we thought he couldn't do it, so we let him. And then, after all, he did.
It turned out to be Albert-next-door, and he was very frightened indeed until he saw who we were. 'Surrender! hissed Oswald, in a desperate-sounding voice, as he caught the arm of the Unwary. And Albert-next-door said, 'All right! I'm surrendering as hard as I can. You needn't pull my arm off. We explained to him that resistance was useless, and I think he saw that from the first.
We thought we'd make a smaller hole to begin with, and it was much better. We dug and dug and dug, and it was jolly hard work! We got very hot digging, but we found nothing. Presently Albert-next-door looked over the wall. We do not like him very much, but we let him play with us sometimes, because his father is dead, and you must not be unkind to orphans, even if their mothers are alive.
By this time Eliza had opened the door, and we thought it best to take him in without any more parlaying. To parley with a prisoner is not done by bandits. Directly we got him safe into the nursery, H. O. began to jump about and say, 'Now you're a prisoner really and truly! And Albert-next-door began to cry. He always does.
Why shouldn't we let him have the odd somethings, and we'll have fourpence each. We all agreed to do this, and told Albert-next-door we would bring his share as soon as we could get the half-crown changed. He cheered up a little at that, and his uncle wiped his face again he did look hot and began to put on his coat and waistcoat. When he had done it he stooped and picked up something.
'Let me go in feet first, said Albert-next-door. 'I'll dig with my boots I will truly, honour bright. So we let him get in feet first and he did it very slowly and at last he was in, and only his head sticking out into the hole; and all the rest of him in the tunnel.
We got the straw cases of some bottles of wine someone sent Father one Christmas it is some years ago, but the cases are quite good. We unpacked them very carefully and pulled them to pieces and scattered the straw about. It made a lovely straw pallet, and took ever so long to make but Albert-next-door has yet to learn what gratitude really is.
But Alice told him, quite kindly, that he was not going in to his tea, but coming with us. 'I'm not, said Albert-next-door; 'I'm going home. Leave go! I've got a bad cold. You're making it worse. Then he tried to cough, which was very silly, because we'd seen him in the morning, and he'd told us where the cold was that he wasn't to go out with.
Now Oswald, though stern, is always just, and besides we were all rather hungry, and tea was ready. So we had it at once, Albert-next-door and all and we gave him what was left of the four-pound jar of apricot jam we got with the money Noel got for his poetry. And we saved our crusts for the prisoner. Albert-next-door was very tiresome. Nobody could have had a nicer prison than he had.
Albert-next-door only sniggered and said, 'What silly nonsense! He cannot play properly at all. It is very strange, because he has a very nice uncle. You see, Albert-next-door doesn't care for reading, and he has not read nearly so many books as we have, so he is very foolish and ignorant, but it cannot be helped, and you just have to put up with it when you want him to do anything.
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