"All very well for you to cheer up," Skippy thought to himself. It hurt, there was no turning from it. It did hurt. What a blunder he had made!
"I could have hired him on a salary," he thought gloomily. But of course now there could be no backing out.
"Well, now what have you worked out?" said Snorky triumphantly.
"I? My mind has been concentrating on the business organization."
"Gaze on this!" Snorky proudly brought forth a diagram which to Skippy's bewildered gaze looked like the cross section of a switch yard. "Do you get it?"
"What's this?"
"That? Why that's the bathtub, you chump."
"It doesn't look like any bathtub."
"You're in it, looking down—see, this is the line of the water. Here's the hot and cold—"
"But this and that—"