'And it'll be in the papers and all! I can't stand this.' "And afore I could stop him he'd run over and tackled the head policeman.
"'Mister--Mister Cap'n,' he says, pantin', 'there's been a mistake, an awful mis--take--' "'That's right,' says the police cap'n, 'there has.

Six or eight of you tin horns got clear.

But--' Then he noticed who was speakin' to him and his mouth dropped open like a hatch.

'Well, saints above!' he says.
'Have the up-state delegates got to buckin' the ponies, too?
Why ain't you back home killin' pertater bugs?
You ought to be ashamed.' "'But we wa'n't gamblin'-- me and my friend wa'n't.

We was led in here by mistake.