Humph! never mind.

So long." He hurried away, as if conscious that he had said more than he intended.
At the corner of the house he turned to call: "I say! Brown! be kind of careful when you dip him out.

None of 'em are plugged." "What ?" "I say none of them lobsters' claws are plugged.

I didn't have time to plug the last lot I got from my pots, so you want to handle 'em careful like, else they'll nip you.

Tote the one you pick out up to the house in the dip-net; then you'll be all right." Evidently considering this warning sufficient to prevent any possible trouble, he departed.