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said Rob . `` Oh , any fool can do them , '' returned Bobus . `` The point is to bell the cat . '' `` There 'd be no getting in to act the midnight ghost , '' said Allen . `` No , '' said Jock ; `` but one could hide in the big rhododendron in the wolf-skin rug , and jump out on him in his chair . '' In Allen 's railway rug , Jock rehearsed the scene , and was imitated if not surpassed by both cousins ; but Allen and Bobus declared that it could not be carried out in the daylight . `` I could do it still better , '' said Jock , `` if I blacked myself all over , not only my face , but all the rest , and put on nothing but my red flannel drawers and a turban .