he said , `` i do not like it in the least , but we do not have the time to serve them all out now , and they can make it so very uncomfortable : we had better wait until we have the egg back safely , and then we may settle them ; or , '' he allowed , `` i suppose we may give them a chance to show they can behave better , '' and that afternoon , when they had taken half-a-dozen kangaroos and stopped at another half-dry water-hole , they laid one before the first trap-door which they found , and did not molest the covering after all .