And now he out with it.
"'Barzilla,' he says, 'I ain't sayin' but what I'd like to go to the wharves with you, first rate.

And we will go, too.

But afore we do anything else I've got an errand that must be attended to.

'Twas give to me by a dyin' man,' he says, 'and I promised him I'd do it.

So that comes first of all.' "He got his wallet out of his inside vest pocket, where it had been pinned in tight to keep it safe from robbers, unwound a foot or so of leather strap, and dug up a yeller piece of paper that looked old enough to be Methusalem's will, pretty nigh.
"'Do you remember Patrick Kelly in Orham ?' he asks.
"'Who ?' says I.'Pat Kelly, the Irishman, that lived in the little old shack back of your barn?
Course I do.