The cobwebs get on their faces, and they puff and snort.
They are bored and ashamed.

That's why they put on the appearance of being very wicked and very mad with us.

It's dirty work, and they understand it, of course they do! Once they turned everything topsy-turvy in my place, and went away abashed, that's all.

Another time they took me along with them.

Well, they put me in prison, and I stayed there with them for about four months.