Either one on 'em is queer--queer as a dog." "Wall," sez he, "you don't want to go into any sech a job.

You'll kill Submit, anyway, experimentin' on her." And I sez, "You needn't worry; I hain't a-goin' to try to branch out into no sech doin's." Sez I, "I wuz usin' Submit as a metafor." Wall, the Fakir after a while asked the queer-lookin' crowd gathered round him for money to try more experiments with.
And wantin' to branch out and outdo Bizer, and make himself a hero, Josiah planked out a five-dollar bill.
And then the man asked Josiah to look in his hat, and there inside the band he found the money, or so it seemed.
And then he told me to look in my pocket, and there wuz five silver dollars to all appearance.
I felt real well about it, and wuz about to put 'em into my portmoney, thinkin' that they wuz my lawful prey, seein' they had fell onto me through my pardner's weakness, when lo and behold! they wuzn't there.
I felt real stunted, and kinder sot back.
"Slight of hand," sez Josiah to me and Bizer.

"Don't be afraid, I'll make it all right." And he reached out his hand to git the money back.
The man handed the money back, or so we spozed, and vanished in the crowd.
And Josiah, when he went to look in his hand, found some pink and white paper.

He hollered round and acted for quite a spell, but the man wuz gone for good, and Josiah's money with him.

Wall, Josiah wuz almost broken-hearted over the loss of his money; he felt awful browbeat and smut, and acted so.
And then it wuz Bizer's time to show off and act.