I said: "I wish you could help me get that school business, but since you can't, I must run up to the Union office and see if I can get them to let me have a proof of it after they have set it up, though I don't begin to suppose they will.

Good night." "Hold on a minute.

I don't mind getting the report and sitting around with the boys a little, while you copy it, if you're willing to drop down to the principal's with me." "Now you talk like a rational being.

Come along." We plowed a couple of blocks through the snow, got the report and returned to our office.

It was a short document and soon copied.
Meantime Boggs helped himself to the punch.