I have a good solid meal in the mornin', same as I alwus did,' he says." Mr.Harum stopped talking to relight his cigar, and after a puff or two, "When I started out," he said, "I hadn't no notion of goin' into all the highways an' byways, but when I git begun one thing's apt to lead to another, an' you never c'n tell jest where I _will_ fetch up.

Now I started off to tell somethin' in about two words, an' I'm putty near as fur off as when I begun." "Well," said John, "it's Saturday night, and the longer your story is the better I shall like it.

I hope the second breakfast was more of a success than the first one," he added with a laugh.
"I managed to average up on the two meals, I guess," David remarked.
"Wa'al," he resumed, "Price an' I set 'round talkin' bus'nis an' things till about twelve or a little after, mebbe, an' then he turned to me an' kind o' looked me over an' says, 'You an' me is about of a build, an' if you say so I'll send one of my coats an' vests up to your room an' have the man take yours an' clean 'em.' "'I guess the' is ruther more egg showin' than the law allows,' I says, 'an' mebbe that 'd be a good idee; but the pants caught it the wust,' I says.
"'Mine'll fit ye,' he says.
"'What'll your wife say to seein' me airifyin' 'round in your git-up ?' I says.

He gin me a funny kind of look.

'My wife ?' he says.