"Are you aware, miss, that the reptile is navigating at the rate of knots along the corridor and may at any moment begin scaring the daylights out of nervous people and invalids?"
Lottie Blossom uttered a bereaved cry. "Didn't you fasten the lid of its basket?"
"No, miss. In answer to your question, I did not fasten the lid of its basket. When a lady instructs me to open a wickerwork basket and I find inside a young alligator which if it had aimed half an inch more to the left would have took the top of my thumb off, I don't hang around fastening lids."
(from The Luck of the Bodkins, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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