How do you prepare the thing ?" "Load it--simply load it." "How ?" "Why you just stand over it and swear into it." "That loads it, does it ?" "Yes--because every word it collars, it keeps--keeps it forever.

Never wears out.

Any time you turn the crank, out it'll come.

In times of great peril, you can reverse it, and it'll swear backwards.

That makes a sailor hump himself!" "O, I see.