"You may get your mouth so wide open that you'll never be able to shut it again." "What's happened ?" "What's happened, while you were asleep?
Well, it will take a long time to tell it, Mr.Rip Van Winkle.

You have slept exactly a week, and in the course of that time we fought a great battle with McClellan, were defeated by him, chiefly owing to your comatose condition, and have fallen back on Richmond, carrying you with us asleep in a wagon.
If you will look behind you you will see the spires of Richmond.
Oh, Harry! Harry! Why did you sleep so long and so hard when we needed you so much ?" "Shut up, Tom.

If ever talking matches become the fashion, I mean to enter you in all of them for the first prize.

Now, tell me what happened while I was asleep, and tell it quick!" "Well, me lad, since you're high and haughty, not to say dictatorial about it, I, as proud and haughty as thyself, defy thee.

George, you tell him all about it." Dalton grinned.