I expect Browny will have to put a dog-collar and chain on him, and drive a stake down in the kitchen-garden to keep him from eating the cabbages when he's caterpillaring.

These workhouse boys are such hungry beggars." "Put a muzzle on him like they do on a ferret," said Courtenay; and then they laughed together.
"Hasn't he got a rum phiz ?" said Philip, who, I soon found, was the quicker with his tongue.
"Yes; don't talk so loud: he'll hear you.

Just like a monkey," said Courtenay; and they laughed again.
"I say, is he going to stop ?" said Courtenay.
"I suppose so.

They want a boy to scrape the shovels and light the fires, and go up the hothouse chimneys to clear out the soot.

He's just the sort for that." "He'll have to polish Old Browny's boots, too." "Yes; and wash Mother Browny's stockings.