"You must excuse these chaps--raw hands--they don't know how to manage at present.

Give 'em time.

They'll do better; won't you, Lickford?
Takes some time to get a notion into Lickford's head, but when it gets there, my word, it sticks.

Get in a double lot of cakes to-morrow, do you hear, or I shall give you the sack." Despite these pleasant recriminations the business went on merrily.

The "tuck" was pronounced a great advance on anything Robert had provided, and rumours of its excellence penetrated into quarters which had never contributed customers to the old shop.
In the afternoon the crowd was less, but the business more steady.