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`` I think so . We 'll settle the premises as we go . '' * * * * * As we were approaching The Lawn , I looked at my watch . It was just a quarter to ten . The little door in the wall was still unbolted , and a very little expenditure of energy sufficed to admit my brother-in-law , Nobby , and myself into the garden . So far as the Sealyham was concerned , ` the Wilderness was Paradise enow . ' Tail up , he plunged into the welter of grass , leaping and wallowing and panting with surprise and delight at a playground which surpassed his wildest dreams .