Sammy likewise made the same observation, and he fended off the deadly blow.
"'Yes,' he says, 'I have deceived you.

My name is----' "He stopped and looked doubtful and perplexed, and scratched his ear with his forepaw.
"'My name is----' he says, and stops, and then he turns to the elderly female, and asks desperate: 'What in tunket did I say my name was ?' "'Hewlitt,' she says, 'Eliph' Hewlitt.' "'Oh, yes!' says Sammy, 'that's it.

I guess I'll just write that down, so as to have it handy.

You know,' he says, looking at me, 'my memory's awful bad since I had the scarlet fever.

It's terrible.