"You don't s'pose anybody can make policemen get married, I reckon, do you ?" "Well, policemen, maybe," Maurice was forced to admit.

"Policemen and teachers don't, but everybody else gotta." "Well, I'll be a policeman," said Sam.

"THEN I guess they won't come around tellin' me I have to get married.

What you goin' to be, Penrod ?" "Chief police," said the laconic Penrod.
"What you ?" Sam inquired of quiet Georgie Bassett.
"I am going to be," said Georgie, consciously, "a minister." This announcement created a sensation so profound that it was followed by silence.

Herman was the first to speak.
"You mean preachuh ?" he asked incredulously.