This is at the end of the party when nearly everything had been eaten - cold chicken, ham, lettuces, beetroot, tomatoes, trifle, cheese, brown bread, and asparagus - the birthday cake (it wasn't anybody's birthday, really) is still left, but the beer-barrel is very nearly empty.

Mr. Day is telling a story, and Mrs. Knight is pretending not to listen. Bruno and Fattie are too full to do anything except sit quiet. It was very late before they finished, and very late indeed when they had washed up. Of course it was too late to go home. So the bears

Herbert is not in this picture. He swallowed a crumb the wrong way and is coughing in the scullery. He was sitting beyond Egbert next to Teddy.

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