"Where have you been?" said Mr. Bliss. "Ha! Ha!" said he, "wouldn't you like to know! Ask the Dorkinses and the bears!" That's why the Dorkinses left early. They did not like the sound of it. But just then the bears did not care what happened, though they changed their minds when they did get home. The Girabbit had eaten every bit of food in their house, and broken the pantry window. As for the Dorkinses, they found he had bitten the tops off every tree in their orchard, and made an enormous hole in the night right in the middle of their best lawn. The bears said: "Well we're blowed! Old Bliss has got the best of it after all", and they left it at that. But the Dorkinses sent in a bill again, and while they were about it they added on a charge for the bears' cabbages, which they had forgotten about: total £1.9.8. But Mr. Bliss had got no money at the moment, and he was getting rather tired of the Dorkinses, so sent the fourpence in stamps, and a bill of his own. This is how he made it out |
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When the Dorkinses got this they were very annoyed, and Mr. B. and they have not been particularly friendly since. | ||
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