rry, dear, and I will come and hear your
pianola to-morrow, and I think it lovely, and you must be clever to play
it so well; but you musn't be angry with me because I am so taken up
with my walking. You see, it is all so new to me. I feel as though I
want everybody to know all about it.

Your pianola must be lovely, Thankyou. Dear Thankyou, could you, do you
think, put all the letters we wrote to each other about my walking in
some book, so that other people would know how to do it the way I do?
You might call it "Letters on Walking," or "How to Walk," or--but you
could get a better title than I could. Do!

Your very loving,
O.D.

P.S.--I'm so glad about the pianola and do you mind if I just tell you
that I did walk round the table, corners and all?

VIII

_Dearest O.D._,--Right you are. I will think of a good title.

Your loving,
~Thankyou.~

III. THE KNIGHT OF THE CHIMNEY-PIECE

We don't know his real name, but we have decided to call him "Arthur"
("Sir Arthur," I suppose he would be). He stands in bronze upon the
chimney-piece, and in his right hand is a javelin; this makes him a very
dangerous person. Opposite him, but behind the clock (Coward!), stands
the other fellow, similarly armed. Most people imagine that the two are
fighting for the hand of the lady on the clock, and they aver that they
can hear her heart beating with the excitement of it; but, to let you
into the secret, the other fellow doesn't come into the story at all.
Only Margery and I know the true story. I think I told it to her one
night when she wouldn't go to sleep--or perhaps she told it to me.

The best of this tale (I say it as the possible author) is that it is
modern. It were easy to have invented something more in keeping with the
knight's armour, but we had to remember that this was the twentieth
century, and that here in this twentieth century was Sir Arthur on the
chimney-piece, with his javelin drawn back. For whom is he waiting?

"It all began," I said, "a year ago, when Sir Arthur became a member of
the South African Chartered Incorporated Co-operative Stores Society
Limited Ten per cents at Par (Men only). He wasn't exactly a real
member, having been elected under Rule Two for meritorious performances,
Rule One being that this club shall be called what I said jus