No, you'll go now and we'll waste no breath on it.

Go on, do you hear!' "So we went, and there we set for ha'f an hour, while the rest of the gang and the blackboards and the paper slips and the telephones and Big Mike and his chair was bein' carted off to the wagon.

Once, when one of the constables was beatin' acrost to get us, the police cap'n spoke to him.
"'You can leave these two,' he says.

'I'll take care of them.' "So, finally, when there was nothin' left but the four walls and us and some of the police, he takes me and Jonadab by the elbows and heads for the door.
"'Now,' says he, 'walk along quiet and peaceable and tell me all about it.

Get out of this!' he shouts to the crowd of small boys and loafers on the sidewalk, 'or I'll take you, too.' "The outsiders fell astern, lookin' heartbroke and disapp'inted that we wa'n't hung on the spot, and the fat boss policeman and us two paraded along slow but grand.