Soon we found it was engaging a three-funneler, the Mainz, so off we started again, now for the Mainz, the situation being that the crippled Arethusa was too tubby to do anything but be defended by us, its children.

"Tubby will be a barrel of fun," said Tom.

"For gracious sake, look at Tubby!"

" "Never mind, Tubby.

This wizard of the cooking-stove is a tubby little man with a moustache of the outsize or soup-strainer type, and you can generally take a line through it as to the state of his emotions.

I thought it might be her brilliant conversation, but for the last half-hour I have listened,indeed we have no choice but to listen, the voices are so strident,and it can't be that, because it isn't brilliant or even amusing, unless to call men names like Pyjamas, or Fatty, or Tubby, and slap them playfully at intervals is amusing.

Slick and smear it over and leave it sounding sicklier and tubbier and more generally disgusting than ever.

They came aboard the old tubby liner to see us off, friends by the score.

Her master was Captain Carreras, a tubby little man of forty-five, bald, modest, and known among the shipping as "a perfect lady."

Tubby the tuba.

By Ruth P. Tubby.

Ruth P. Tubby (A); 9Aug76; R637628.

Marge's Little Lulu and Tubby Tom paint book.

Marge's Little Lulu: Alvin and Tubby.

Tubby the tuba.

By Ruth P. Tubby.

Ruth P. Tubby (A); 9Aug76; R637628.

Then poor old Tubby, who hasn't recovered from his 1918 dose of shell-shock, got a go of claustrophobia and felt he simply had to get out of the train.

"No good," said Tubby, after they had roared themselves hoarse.

"We might try shouting once more," suggested Tubby in a voice that quivered in spite of his efforts to keep it steady.

"I know now," rejoined Tubby in a confident tone.

"Has that to do with it," finished Tubby for him.

"Hold on," warned Rob, as Tubby Hopkins was about to secure the dinghy to the mooring buoy, "we'll tow her along.

" "I wonder what they came back for?" said Tubby suddenly.

"That sort of throbbing sound?" rejoined Tubby Hopkins.