You said, 'I've _bean_ hangin',' instead of 'I've _ben_ hangin'.' See?
They say _bean_ in Chicago.

Ha! ha! You didn't think I could deduce that, did you ?" "I'll confess that I didn't," said Mr.Bonner with a dry smile.

"I'm from Boston, however." "Sure," interposed Isaac Porter; "that's where the beans come from, Anderson." "Well, that's neither here nor there," said Mr.Crow, hastily changing the subject.

"We're wastin' time." "Stayin' here, you mean ?" asked Ed Higgins, quite ready to start.
Involuntarily the eyes of the posse turned toward the house among the willows.

The stranger saw the concerted glance and made inquiry.
Whereupon Mr.Crow, assisted by seven men and five small boys, told Mr.
Wicker Bonner, late of Harvard, what had brought them from Tinkletown to the haunted house, and what they had seen upon their arrival.