_Potlegoff_. Yes, sir.

_Mr. H_. How did she take them?

_Pot_. Off the counter, sir.

_Mr. H_. Did she go into the shop to take them?

_Pot_. Yes, sir. (_Aside_: I thought I was to say into three shops.)

_Mr. H_. One after another?

_Pot_. Yes, out of one shop one after another. (_Aside_: Now it's
right, I hope.)

_Mr. H_. (_Aside_: Confound him, he's contradicting the other!) (_To_
POT.) Yes, just so; one after the other. And did you see the second
loaf tumble down?

_Pot_. Yes, sir.

_Mr. H_. When was that?

_Pot_. As she took it off the counter.

_Mr. H_. Yes, _after_ she took it off the counter, in the street?

_Pot_. No, sir. (_Catching the_ SERGEANT'S _eye_.) I mean yes, sir,
and she wiped the mud off them; the sergeant saw her--and I saw her.