"Poor Tom is not thinking of the company below," said Toney. "His thoughts are far away."
"With Ida?" said the Professor. "Yet one of the company below seems to be wonderfully excited by his music. Did you ever hear such a clatter of hoofs?"
"You refer to the young gentleman on the top of the cook's galley, who is occupied with certain saltatory movements which appear to be an awkward imitation of dancing?" said Toney.
"Who is he?" asked the Professor.
"Sam Perch," said Toney.
"The verdant youth who is sometimes called the Long Green Boy?" said the Professor.
"The same," said Toney.
"This extraordinary lad seems to possess the chameleon-like faculty of occasionally changing his color," said the Professor.
"How so?" said Toney.
"He has ceased to be green for the present, and has become exceedingly blue."