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 Lamb to get under the table and break his squeaking bird. There was a sharp convenient wire inside the bird, and of course the Lamb ran the wire into Robert's leg at once; and so, without anyone's meaning to do it the secret drawer was flooded with ink. At the same time a stream was poured over Anthea's half-finished letter.

So that her letter was something like this—

"',—I hope you are quite well, and I hope Granny is better. The other day we.…'"

Then came a flood of ink, and at the bottom these words in pencil—

"'It was not me upset the ink, but it took such a time clearing up, so no more as it is post-time.—From your loving daughter"

Robert's letter had not even been begun. He had been drawing a ship on the blotting paper while he was trying to think of what to say. And of course after the ink was upset he had to help Anthea to clean out her desk, and he promised to make her another secret drawer,