Tommy Twister’s Discovery 253

is quite unusual! What do you propose to
do with it?”

“With your permission,” replied Tommy,
very properly, “I propose to go to the
North Pole in it during the Midsummer
holidays.”

“Hum!” said his father doubtfully. “I
don’t know what mamma will say to it!
How do you propose to manage about meals
—and clean socks—and so on?”

“T could take an extra pair of socks,”
said Tommy; ‘and as to food, I was
anxious to consult you about that and
ask your kind assistance. My idea was
to live on jam, if you would be so kind
as to give me some from the factory.
Er—to tell the truth (which, as a good
boy, I am always anxious to do), I should
require a really large quantity of jam—quite
new and hot.”

“Well, let me sec,” said his father thought-
fully. ‘Have you learned your dates of
the kings and queens of England since the
Conquest ?”

(There they are, you see—those kings