There was sand on the floor, and in the dancing room at the back, where nobody danced, a jaded young man was banging out polkas and quick-steps at a cheap piano.
At the Crystal Palace, where they all had shandy-gaff, they met one of Ellis's friends, a young fellow of about twenty.

He was stone deaf, and in consequence had become dumb; but for all that he was very eager to associate with the young men of the city and would not hear of being separated and set apart with the other deaf mutes.

He was very pleased to meet them and joined them at once.

They all knew him pretty well and called him the "Dummy." In the course of the evening the patty was seen at nearly every bar and saloon in the neighbourhood of Market and Kearney streets.

Geary and Vandover were very drunk indeed.