Did you hear his voice ?" "No, I didn't." "Has some one told you?
Has he come and told you himself ?" "No, he ain't.

Wrong agin." "Did he leave anything behind that you would know him by, then ?" The boy looked up sharply at Riddell, who saw that he had made a point, and followed it up.
"What did he leave behind?
His cap ?" he asked.
"His cap! Do you suppose chaps cut strings with their caps?
Why, you must be a flat." "His knife, was it ?" exclaimed Riddell, excitedly.

"Was it his knife ?" "There you go; you're so clever.

I as good as tell yer, and then you go on as if you guessed it yourself! You ain't got as much learnin' as you think, governor." "But was it his knife he left behind ?" inquired Riddell, too eager to attend to the sarcasms of his companion.
"What could it 'a been, unless it might be a razor.

You don't cut ropes with your thumb-nails, do you?
Of course it was his knife." "And have you got it still, Tom ?" Here Tom began to get shy.