Good-by!" Pringle smiled benevolently from the door.
"There! I almost forgot to tell you boys.

We disapprove of your actions oh-very-much! You know you were doing what was very, very wrong--like three little mice that were playing in the barn though the old mouse said: 'Little mice, beware! When the owl comes singing "Too-whoo" take care!' If you do it again we shall consider it deliberately unfriendly of you....

Well, I'll toddle my decrepit old bones out of this.

Eleven o'clock! How time has flown, to be sure! Thank you for a pleasant evening.

Good-by, George.