But, somehow, my dear friend, you don't know your powers; you have that within you would make the fortune of half the periodicals going.

Ask Monsoon or O'Malley there if I did not say so at breakfast, when you were grilling the old hen,--which, by-the-bye, let me remark, was not one of your _chefs-d'oeuvre_." "A tougher beastie I never put a tooth in." "But the story, the story," said I.
"Yes," said Power, with a tone of command, "the story, Sparks." "Well, if you really think it worth telling, as I have always felt it a very remarkable incident, here goes.".