of light greeted them , and a rushrushof hot , stale air , smellingsmellof warming flannels .
However , he was not much disconcerted at that ; for when he had takentakea mouthful of bread and butter and was about to swallow a gulp of tea , the humour of the thing burstburstupon him with such irresistible force , that he was obliged to jumpjumpup from the table , and rushrushsnortingsnortand chokingchokefrom the room ; and a minute after , was heardhearscreamingscreamin fearful agony in the garden .
Indeed , so little did it enter my head to even use the place in summer , that I submitted to weeks of seaside life with all its horrors every year ; until at last , in the early spring of last year , having comecomedown for the openingopenof the village school , and wanderingwanderout afterwards into the bare and desolate garden , I do n’t know what smell of wet earth or rotting leaves brought back my childhood with a rushrushand all the happy days I had spent in a garden .