He laid up against the counter with his feet crossed
at a dancing-girl angle. But I will say for him that he was running
at the mouth with the finest flow of language I iver heard. I
learned a lot of it, and Cap knows the stuff, and I'm goin' to have
him get you the book. But, Dannie, he wouldn't drink with us, but
he stayed to iducate us up a little. That little spool man, Dannie,
iducatin' Jones of the gravel gang, and Bingham of the Standard,
and York of the 'lectric railway, and Haines of the timber gang,
not to mintion the champeen rat-catcher of the Wabash."
Jimmy hugged himself, and rocked on the edge of the bed.
"Oh, I can just see it, Dannie," he cried. "I can just see it now!
I was pretty drunk, but I wasn't too drunk to think of it, and it
came to me sudden like."
Dannie stared at Jimmy wide-eyed, while he explained the details,
and then he too began to laugh, and the longer he laughed the
funnier it grew.
"I've got to start," said Jimmy. "I've an awful afternoon's work.
I must find him some rubber boots. He's to have the inestimable
privilege of carryin' me gun, Dannie, and have the first shot at
the coons, fifty, I'm thinkin' I said. And if I don't put some
frills on his cute little coat! Oh, Dannie, it will break the heart
of me if he don't wear that pleated coat!"
Dannie wiped his eyes.
"Come on to the kitchen," he said, "I've something ready fra ye to
eat. Wash, while I dish it."
"I wish to Heaven you were a woman, Dannie," said Jimmy.
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