"It ain't my style to spoil fun, boys," said the little man, stoutly eyeing the faces around him, "but it strikes me that this thing ain't exactly on the squar.

It's playing it pretty low down on this yer baby to ring in fun on him that he ain't goin' to understand.

And ef there's goin' to be any godfathers round, I'd like to see who's got any better rights than me." A silence followed Stumpy's speech.

To the credit of all humorists be it said that the first man to acknowledge its justice was the satirist thus stopped of his fun.

"But," said Stumpy, quickly following up his advantage, "we're here for a christening, and we'll have it.