And all the children, even Anthea, agreed that even if she wasn't
a blue-nosed Bozwoz, they wished cook had never been born.
But I ask you to believe that they didn't do all the things on
purpose which so annoyed the cook during the following week, though
I daresay the things would not have happened if the cook had been
a favourite. This is a mystery. Explain it if you can. The
things that had happened were as follows:
Sunday.--Discovery of foreign mud on both sides of the carpet.
Monday.--Liquorice put on to boil with aniseed balls in a saucepan.
Anthea did this, because she thought it would be good for the
Lamb's cough. The whole thing forgotten, and bottom of saucepan
burned out. It was the little saucepan lined with white that was
kept for the baby's milk.
Tuesday.--A dead mouse found in pantry. Fish-slice taken to dig
grave with. By regrettable accident fish-slice broken. Defence:
'The cook oughtn't to keep dead mice in pantries.'
Wednesday.--Chopped suet left on kitchen table. Robert added
chopped soap, but he says he thought the suet was soap too.
Thursday.--Broke the kitchen window by falling against it during a
perfectly fair game of bandits in the area.
Friday.--Stopped up grating of kitchen sink with putty and filled
sink with water to make a lake to sail paper boats in.
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