3/35 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. "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 an awful afternoon's work. |