And he is at this moment with
the clergywoman and the tinker-mother."
"Where is Sybil?" asked Mrs. Hedgehog.
I did not know then, and I am not very clear about her now. I never saw
her again, but either I heard that she had married Black Basil, and that
they had gone across the water to some country where the woods are
bigger than they are here, or I have dreamt it in one of my winter naps.
I am inclined to think it must be true, because I always regarded Sybil
as somewhat proud and unsociable, and I think she would like a big wood
and very few neighbours.
But really when one sleeps for several months at a stretch it is not
very easy to be accurate about one's dreams.
FOOTNOTES:
Footnote B: _Patteran_ = the gipsy "trail."
Footnote C: "Poknees," gipsy word for magistrate.
TOOTS AND BOOTS.
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CHAPTER I.
My name is Toots. Why, I have not the slightest idea. But I suppose very
few people--cats or otherwise--are consulted about their own names. If
they were, these would perhaps be, as a rule, more appropriate.
What qualities of mind or body my name was supposed to illustrate, I
have not to this hour a notion.
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