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_ _ Many roads Thou hast fashioned : all of them lead to the Light , _ _ Mithras , also a soldier , teach us to die aright ! _ THE WINGED HATS The next day happened to be what they called a Wild Afternoon . Father and Mother went out to pay calls ; Miss Blake went for a ride on her bicycle , and they were left all alone till eight o'clock . When they had seen their dear parents and their dear preceptress politely off the premises they got a cabbage-leaf full of raspberries from the gardener , and a Wild Tea from Ellen . They ate the raspberries to prevent their squashing , and they meant to divide the cabbage-leaf with Three Cows down at the Theatre , but they came across a dead hedgehog which they simply _ had _ to bury , and the leaf was too useful to waste . Then they went on to the Forge and found old Hobden the hedger at home with his son the Bee Boy who is not quite right in his head , but who can pick up swarms of bees in his naked hands ; and the Bee Boy told them the rhyme about the slow-worm : -- ` If I had eyes _ as _ I could see , No mortal man would trouble me . '