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II faut queje Ia montre ajessie-a giant grasshopper! G. WELLS AND HIS FAMILY 25 leap into the air and then landed in the soup that jessie was preparing for dinner. As far as I can remember, we did not have potage a Ia sauterelle for dinner, as we might well have had, but clear soup! I had already taken several day-trips over to Boulogne and back during the fine weather, and had very much enjoyed myself, when, towards the end of the summer season, I decided to go once more across to France. Everything went according to my plans.
I was on the verge of tears, when Mrs. Wells very tactfully remarked that she would probably have done the same thing had she been there first. It was not until we lived in London that Gip had to be operated on for appendicitis. During the long winter evenings I had read several of Mr. Wells's early books: The Wonderful Visit, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The Sea Lady, The First Men in the Moon, The Island rif Dr. Moreau and other scientific romances. They all delighted me, although I had to read them with a dictionary by my side, because my English vocabulary was limited.
Guess who he is. ' I easily guessed; it was to Anatole France of course that Mr. Wells was referring. 9 In Experiment in Autobiography, written in 1934, Mr. Wells says that he and Mr. Anatole France met several times before 1914 and formed a very friendly estimate of each other. Mr. Wells could certainly look very smart in his town clothes, but, like his sons- the barefooted little Wells boys- he could sometimes be seen walking about the place without shoes or socks. Great men, of course, can afford to be negligent in their attire whenever they are in that mood.