That's the 'Diamond Horseshoe.'" "All proper things there, hey ?" "Why--er--yes, I suppose so.

What makes you ask ?" "Nothing much.

I was thinking 'twas better Abbie wa'n't along on this cruise.

She'd probably want to put an 'im' in front of that 'proper.' I envy those women, Jim; _they_ didn't have to stop to hunt up collar buttons, did they." He was silent during the first act of the opera.

When the curtain fell his companion asked how he liked it.
"Good singin'," he replied; "best I ever heard.