"The Sixth held a Cabinet Council to-day to discuss who should go out
for nuts. The choice fell on Callonby. I wonder why the Sixth are so
fond of nuts. Why, monkeys eat nuts. Perhaps that is the reason. What
a popular writer Mr Bohn is with the Sixth! they even read him at
lesson time! I was quite sorry when the Doctor had to bone Wren's Bohn.
I wonder, by the way, why that bird found it so hard to translate the
simplest sentence without his Bohn! The Doctor really shouldn't--I hope
he will restore to Wren his backbone by giving him back his Bohn. Hum!
I heard some one smiling. I'll go."
The Sixth, a good many of them, were imprudent enough to look very
guilty at the reading of this extract, a circumstance which appeared to
afford keenest delight to the Fifth. But as Simon's poem followed, they
had other food for thought at the moment. The poem was entitled--
A Revverie.