CHAPTER X. 



CONFIDENTIAL — TROTT'S IDEA — MIND AND BODY — COWS 

 AND CHICKENS — A SMILE — A NEW DEGREE — SHORT 

 NECKED— TROTT'S OPINIONS — ARRIVAL. 



UDDENLY to Trott, when we are once more 

 in the gig: "Now, what is the matter with that 

 Cow ? " 



I put this to him confidentially, as much as 

 to say, " Look here. Now I'm driving about with you I'm 

 one of yourselves ; and, eiitre nous, though you told Flipster 

 something about that Cow, you didn't tell him everything. 

 Now then, Trott, my boy, out with it, and mum's the word." 

 I think he is taken with my confidential air, as he inclines 

 his head sideway, still keeping his eye in a negligent sort of 

 way on the careless mare, and, without turning to me, he 

 replies in a whisper, 



" Well, Sir, my idea is that it's apoplexy." 

 I look at him to see if he's joking. I am prepared to 

 laugh if he is, and am ready to say " Indeed ! " quite seriously, 

 if he isn't. 



He is not joking. When he says "Apoplexy" he means 

 apoplexy. 



How one's mind can be enlarged in a single morning ! in- 



