You can't imagine, Thir--unleth you come down to thee, Thir--" He turned his superior eye to the cornice above Redwood's head.

"'Ow do we know the ratth 'aven't got it, Thir! That 'th what I think of motht, Thir.

I 'aven't theen any big ratth, Thir, but 'ow do I know, Thir.

We been frightened for dayth becauth of the earwigth we've theen--like lobthters they wath--two of 'em, Thir--and the frightful way the canary creeper wath growing, and directly I heard the waptheth--directly I 'eard 'em, Thir, I underthood.

I didn't wait for nothing exthept to thow on a button I'd lortht, and then I came on up.