The Thursday past I saw Moruti KK. I laughed until I dropped on the ground.

It can take a while to learn how to iron a shirt properly.

… ordinarily a wizard looks after such small conveniences by way of spells, the very least and commonest kind of spells, and indeed it takes little more magic to freshen seawater and so save the bother of carrying fresh water.

But now maybe I'm telling tales out of school, he added, with a laugh. I shouldn't like to get the little girl into trouble.