"You even described how you did it," she said, slowly.

"You said that Mount Lonesome turned into a volcano.

Wasn't it true ?" "Figure o' speech, my dear," said the unhappy captain; "I've got a talent for description that runs away with me at times." His niece gazed at him in perplexity.
"You know what Chalk is," said Captain Bowers, appealingly.

"I was going to do it yesterday, only I forgot it, and he would have gone down on his knees for another sight of it.

I don't like to seem disobliging to friends, and it seemed to me a good way out of it.