II.
ANCIENT BRITONS AND MODERN.
In India, during the monsoon, and at other times, damp clothes are dried by laying them over a vast inverted basket beneath which smoulders a brazier of charcoal.
Ayah was airing clean clothes upon such a basket as the children passed through the big empty landing behind the Club premises—(the Nursery, to wit).
Ayah removed the warm, dry clothes and departed to bestow them in their respective cupboards.
As the eye of the President fell upon the dully glowing charcoal, visible through the large interstices and apertures of the crude basket-work, an idea germinated in her fertile brain.
"I say, Fic," quoth she to the faithful Vice, "how'd you like to play Judgment Day? Or
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