"No," answered Barnabas.
"But we seen 'im run this way," demurred Surly.
"Ah!—he must ha' run oop or down this 'ere lane," said Stentor.
"He did neither," said Barnabas.
"Why, then p'r'aps you be stone blind as well as stone deaf?" suggested Stentor.
"Neither one nor the other," answered Barnabas, "and now, since I have answered all your questions, suppose you go and look somewhere else?"
"Look, is it?—look wheer—d'ye mean—?"
"I mean—go."
"Go!" repeated Stentor, round of eye, "then s'pose you tell us—wheer!"
"Anywhere you like, only—be off!"