But at the very moment she was thinking these thoughts, adventure, as she afterwards told my Mother, was stalking her.

It was not very long afterwards that Michael woke up one morning with a curious feeling inside him. He knew, the moment he opened his eyes, that something was wrong but he was not quite...

That’s coral!” she cried in astonishment. “We must be down in the deeps of the sea!”Well, wasn’t that what you wanted?” said the trout. “I thought you wished you could see the sea!”I did,” said...

Michael, “I never expected the wish to come true.”The Trout, “Great Oceans! Why bother to wish it, then? I call that simply a waste of time.

I shouldn’t wonder if you didn’t wonder much too much!