I give him up.

I haf been insulted." "I saw it," the editor assured him.

"He gave you a good whack.
Sounded like a wet plank falling on a marble slab.

Mad about the fire-extinguishers business, wasn't he ?" "And why ?" asked the mayor, looking up for the first time, "he has a right to obey those ordinances and not get mad." "Oh, but he don't like the way folks will laugh at him when they learn the joke you have played on him.

That was a good one." "Joke ?" queried the mayor, growing brighter.