"What did you do ?" he asked.

"Run all the way ?" "Joe got us on the wrong car," panted Neil, "and we went halfway to Coney Island, I guess." "It wasn't my fault any more than it was yours," growled Joe.

"You had eyes, hadn't you ?" "We had eyes," replied Ossie from behind his handkerchief, as he wiped his streaming face, "but we aren't supposed to know where these silly cars go to." "I didn't have any trouble," murmured Perry.
"Well, we did," said Han resentfully.

"We waited ten minutes on a broiling-hot corner and then, when we did get another car, it got blocked behind ten thousand drays and we had to foot it about eleven miles! Got any ice-water aboard ?" "We've got ice and we've got water," replied Perry.

"If you mix 'em in the proper proportions--" "Oh, dry up and blow away," muttered Han, dragging himself painfully down the companion on his way to the galley.