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"Well, well, well, what can this be?" he said, and Phil nudged Jessica, and Jessica smiled at her Mother, and Phil jumped about and said, "Open it! Open it!" So Mr. Banks opened it.

"Well, well, well!" he said.

It was a silver cup.

"But what—?" he said.

Then he turned it round, and on the other side he saw:

first prize
(Division 1)
WON BY
theo banks

"But who—?" he said.

Then they explained how Theodore had won the prize, and how there hadn't been room to get all his name in, so they had had to put Theo.

"Well, well, well," said Mr. Theo. Banks again.

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