I felt like the feller that was caught robbin' the poorhouse, and I cal'late Jonadab felt the same, only he was so busy beggin' and pleadin' and explainin' that he couldn't stop to feel anything.
"He told it all, the whole fool yarn from one end to t'other.

How old Pat give him the message and how he went to the laundry, and about his ridiculous dream, every word.

And the fat policeman shook all over, like a barrel of cod livers.
"By and by we got to a corner of a street and hove to.

I could see the station house loomin' up large ahead.

Fatty took a card from his pocketbook, wrote on it with a pencil, and then hailed a hack, one of them stern-first kind where the driver sits up aloft 'way aft.