I think 'twas just seventeen of them biscuits that you got away with.

Wonder to me you didn't see somebody worse'n old Pat.' "But he was past jokin'.

You never see a man so shook up by the nightmare as he was by that one.

He kept goin' over it and tellin' how natural old Kelly looked and how many times he said 'Seventeen' to him.
"'Now what did he mean by it ?' he says.

'Don't tell me that was a common dream, 'cause twa'n't.