"So did I.

No end of a bust up it was." "You see," said Philpot, solemnly, "what I ought to have done was to dilute the oxygen with a little air first, but you fellows flurried me so I forgot all about it." "Jolly glad you did, or we'd have missed the bust up," said Cusack.

"I say, can't we try now?
I know the way to do it quite well." But this proposal Philpot flatly declined to accede to, and could only appease their disappointment by promising to perform one other experiment for their benefit.
This was of rather an elaborate nature.

The operator first placed in a saucer some stuff which he explained was iodine.

On to this he poured from a small bottle which smelt uncommonly like smelling-salts a small quantity of liquid, and then proceeded to stir the concoction up.
The two students were not to be restrained from offering their services at this point, and Philpot yielded.