YOU know, KELLY! We want to find him.' "And just then up steps a feller about six feet high and three foot through.

He was dressed in checkerboard clothes, some gone to seed, and you could hardly see the blue tie he had on for the glass di'mond in it.

Oh, he was a little wilted now--for the lack of water, I judge--but 'twas plain that he'd been a sunflower in his time.

He'd just come out of a liquor store next door to the fruit shop and was wipin' his mouth with the back of his hand.
"'What's this I hear ?' says he, fetchin' Jonadab a welt on the back like a mast goin' by the board.

'Is it me friend Kelly you're lookin' for ?' "I was just goin' to tell him no, not likin' his looks, but Jonadab cut in ahead of me, out of breath from the earthquake the feller had landed him, but excited as could be.
"'Yes, yes!' says he.