Now, they're always poking fun at me--pretty damn nasty! some of it--but don't I always look cheerful ?" "Oh--YOU!" exclaimed Grant in disgust.
"And do you know why ?" demanded Craig, giving him a rousing slap on the knee.

"When I find it hard to laugh I begin to think of the greatest joke of all--the joke I'll have on these merry boys when the cards are all played and I sweep the tables.

I think of that, and, by gosh, I fairly roar!" "Do you talk that way to convince yourself ?" Craig's eyes were suddenly shrewd.

"Yes," said he, "and to convince you, and a lot of other weak-minded people who believe all they hear.

You'll find out some day that the world thinks with its ears and its mouth, my boy.