'Yes,' says Price, 'I told Mr.Harum about some of the people we saw this afternoon, an' I must say he didn't appear to be as much impressed as I thought he would.

How's that, Harum ?' he says to me.
"'Wa'al,' says I, 'I was thinkin' 't I'd like to bet you two dollars to a last year's bird's nest,' I says, 'that if all them fellers we seen this afternoon, that air over fifty, c'd be got together, an' some one was suddinly to holler "LOW BRIDGE!" that nineteen out o' twenty 'd _duck their heads_.'" "And then ?" queried John.
"Wa'al," said David, "all on 'em laughed some, but Price--he jest lay back an' roared, and I found out afterwuds," added David, "that ev'ry man at the table, except the Englis'man, know'd what 'low bridge' meant from actial experience.

Wa'al, scat my -- --!" he exclaimed, as he looked at his watch, "it ain't hardly wuth while undressin'," and started for the door.

As he was halfway through it, he turned and said, "Say, I s'pose _you'd_ 'a' known what to do with that egg," but he did not wait for a reply..