I'll give you some paper to wrap it up in, and you'd better take the things out again and put it in at the bottom of the box." Yes, obviously he would not be ready in time.
The matter of Hamlet and the "lead" was also very exhausting.

Hamlet had never, in all his days, been tied to anyone or anything.

Of course no one could tell what had been his history before he came strolling on to the Cole horizon, and it may be that once as a very small puppy he had been tied on to something.

On the whole, that is probable, his protests on this occasion being of a kind so vehement as to argue some reminiscences behind them.

Mrs.Cole had bought a beautiful "lead" of black leather; of course he had already a collar studded with little silver nails, and the point was very simply to fasten the "lead" on to the collar.