associate
for the
most
learned
person I
might
chance to
meet. “So,
while the
Professor
picked the
little
girls –
who were
more
frightened
than hurt
– off the
ground,
and the
pupils
clustered
around him
closely
grouped, I
calmly
walked out
of the
school-house,
turned a
corner,
and
escaped
unnoticed
to a grove
of trees
that stood
near”
“Wonderful!”
exclaimed
the
Pumpkinhead,
admiringly.
“It was,
indeed,”
agreed the
Woggle-Bug.
“I have
never
ceased to
