Many Texan gallants, no doubt, have told you the same while the moon was bright above you and the breeze was softly whispering through the branches of--the branches of the--of the-- Confound it, I don't know! I have never been in Texas.

It is a vice in me I hope soon to correct.

All day I intended to look up Texas in the encyclopedia.

But all day I have dwelt in the clouds.

And there are no reference books in the clouds.
Now I am down to earth in my quiet study.