"Yes'm."
"Watering the grass?"
"No'm."
"Hum—Katie says somebody dug a hole in my pansy bed last night. It's a splendid place for worms. Have you, by any chance, been trying your new pole?"
Silence.
"Have you, Roger?"
"Ye—es'm," gulped Roger.
"Did you fall in?"
"Ye—es'm."
"How did you get out?"