I put him down as dotty, but my! you should have heard him when he found out that the stuff had been lifted!" "Was he disappointed ?" Burton asked.
Words seemed to fail the plasterer.

He nodded his head a great many times and spat upon the floor.
"That may be the word I was looking for," he admitted.

"Can't say as I should have thought of it myself.

Anyway, the bloke never stopped for close on five minutes, and old Joe--him on the ladder there--he came all the way down and listened with his mouth open, and he don't want no laming neither when there's things to be said.

Kind of auctioneer they said he was.