was bringin' the kid around all right, when one of the Miss Deveres, she has to come nutty all to once--say, she sounded like the parrot-house in Central Park, laughin' till you'd think she'd bust, only it sounded like she was cryin' at the same time, and screamin' out at the top of her voice, 'Oh, he looked so damned funny with his _mus_-tache burned off! Oh, he looked so damned funny with his _mus_-tache burned off!'-- way up high like that, over and over.

Well, so she has to be held down till the Doc.

jabs her arm full of knockouts.

Honest, I needed the dope myself for fair by that time, what with the lady bein' that way I'm 'a tellin' you, and Kelly, the crazy Irishman--I could hear him off in one corner givin' his reg'ler stunt about his friend, O'Houlihan, lately landed and lookin' for work, comes to a sausage factory and goes up to the boss and says, 'Begobs!'-- _you_ know the old gag--say, I run out in the snow and looked over to the crowd around the fire and thought of Prof.pokin' around in that dressin'-room for Kelly's other kid, when he might 'a jumped after he got the first one, and, say, this is no kid--first thing I knew I begin to bawl like a baby.
"Well, as I was sayin', there I am and all I can see through the fog is one 'a these here big lighted signs down the street with 'George's Place' on it, and a pitcher of a big glass of beer.

Me to George's, at once.