`` He has Rome to console him , '' said Pertinax . `` I ask you of your kindness to let us go to our homes and get this smell out of our nostrils . '' ` None the less they gave us a Triumph ! ' ` It was well earned , ' said Puck , throwing some leaves into the still water of the marlpit . The black , oily circles spread dizzily as the children watched them . ' I want to know , oh , ever so many things , ' said Dan . ` What happened to old Allo ? Did the Winged Hats ever come back ? And what did Amal do ? ' ` And what happened to the fat old General with the five cooks ? ' said Una . ` And what did your Mother say when you came home ? ... ' ` She 'd say you 're settin ' too long over this old pit , so late as 't is already , ' said old Hobden 's voice behind them . ` Hst ! ' he whispered . He stood still , for not twenty paces away a magnificent dog-fox sat on his haunches and looked at the children as though he were an old friend of theirs . ` Oh , Mus ' Reynolds , Mus ' Reynolds ! ' said Hobden , under his breath . ` If I knowed all was inside your head , I 'd know something wuth knowin ' . Mus ' Dan an ' Miss Una , come along o ' me while I lock up my liddle hen-house . '
A PICT SONG Rome never looks where she treads , Always her heavy hooves fall On our stomachs , our hearts or our heads ; And XXXXX never heeds when we bawl .
Amal Dan Mother Mus Pertinax Puck Rome Una dog-fox marlpit