![]() He did not understand how useful those whiskers were to Lord Hugh, both in sport and in the more serious business of getting a living. To Maurice, scissors in hand, alive and earnest to snip, it seemed the most natural thing in the world to shorten the stiff whiskers of Lord Hugh Cecil by a generous inch. ![]() Yet it is difficult for an outsider to see these things from the point of view of both the persons concerned. And if you had a tail, surely it would be solely your own affair that any one should tie a tin can to it would strike you as an unwarrantable impertinence-to say the least. If you have a nice fur coat like a company promoter’s, it is most annoying to be made to swim in it. But round wooden shoes, shaped like bowls, are not comfortable wear, however much it may amuse the onlooker to see you try to walk in them. To have your hair cut is not painful, nor does it hurt to have your whiskers trimmed. ![]() ‘THE TREASURE SEEKERS,’ ‘THE WONDERFUL GARDEN,’ He scrambled out of the cupboard, and the boots and goloshes fell off him like spray off a bather.- P. 24. Produced by Suzanne Shell, David Wilson and the Online *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MAGIC WORLD *** With this eBook or online at Title: The Magic World ![]() Re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withĪlmost no restrictions whatsoever. ![]() The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Magic World, by Edith Nesbit ![]()
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