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O'Neill, because Turly is a boy; and, besides, I am older. I am always getting into scrapes though I don't mean it, and I suppose I must have gone wrong this time too." "No, you didn't," said Turly; "I got into the boat and I made you come to me." "I oughtn't to have got in," said Terry, "I ought to have pulled you out."
"There might be a ghost." "If there is, I'll soon knock him on the head," said Turly. "I'll take the poker with me." "Oh, you silly! The poker would pass through him. They have no bodies." "Then they couldn't hurt us," said Turly, "so who cares? But there might be rats, so I'll just take the poker with me."
When the children were left alone, however, they soon began to talk. "I say, Terry," said Turly, "isn't the house awfully quiet? You wouldn't think there was any kitchen or places downstairs, because they make no noise. At school you are always hearing things, doors banging and voices speaking, and you can smell the dinner. It's a very quiet place, Gran'ma's is.
In the end the door had to be taken off the hinges, and when it was removed the children made a very sooty appearance as the result of their struggle for liberty. Turly was like a real sweep from squeezing himself up and down the chimney, and Terry had got her gold curls sprinkled with soot, the result of putting them into the grate when she looked up the chimney after Turly.
Oh, they'll come for us in a boat! And then it will be fun to have discovered an island." "I think it's quite an old island," said Terry. "We haven't discovered it." "Now don't you go and spoil things," said Turly. "I mean to discover it."
It couldn't be any harm to have him up here only for half an hour or so. I'll wipe his paws on the mat so that he sha'n't make any mess. And he doesn't bark much unless he hears a noise at night, so I am sure he wouldn't disturb Grandma." Turly had swept away his soldiers, and stood up ready for the adventure. "I won that battle," he said; "so now, come on!" "Take my hand, Turly.
"The best plan will be," said Turly, "to throw big pieces, and then these monsters will fly away with them, and leave the little fellows to eat in peace." This was done, and the rooks in their sombre cloaks and hoods, and the magpies in their courtly black satin and white velvet, pounced on the morsels, and retired with them to the branches of the nearest trees.
"It isn't exactly all right," said Turly. "I should want to see a little better. Push it a little farther back on me, Terry." Terry tried to do so, but the pot would not move. "My head is stuck into it," said Turly. "I'm afraid it will never come off." "Oh, Turly!" "Never mind. I'll go on with the fighting, and perhaps some fellow will shoot it off.
All the things they had handled were put back in their places, and they ran to the door. Terry turned the handle and shook it, but it would not open. "I locked it when we came in," said Turly. "I was trying the lock." "I can't unlock it," said Terry. Turly tried, and Terry tried again, but the key was fixed in the lock and would not move.
Cook came up to Granny's room to take orders for the evening dinner, and Terry and Turly were to be permitted to dine with the grown people. In due time the father and mother arrived, both quite young people, and looking more like the grown-up brother and sister of Terry and Turly than their parents.
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