Chapter 17 THE SNOWY OWL

"I think it is a horrid bother, if you want to know!" said Willy.

"Willy Merryweather! aren't you ashamed of yourself? I never heard anything so odious, when we are all so happy, and everything is so perfectly lovely. I don't see what you mean."

"I don't care, it is a bother. Nothing is the way it used to be; it's all nothing but spooning, al