When you hear me a-talkin' don' you go turnin' over your Baedekers and lookin' out of the window.

If I didn't know a great big sight more about Versailles than Baedeker does I wouldn't be here makin' a clown of myself; an' I'll show you the view out of the window all in good time.

You see that lady an' two genelmen over there?
_They're_ listenin' all right enough because they don't belong to this party an' they want to get a little information cheap price.

All right--I let 'em have it!" At which the lady and two gentlemen usually melted away looking annoyed.
We were fascinated with the coaches of state and much impressed with the cost of them.

As momma said, it took so very _little_ imagination to conjure up a Royal Philip inside bowing to the populace.
"What a pity we couldn't have had them over!" said poppa indiscreetly.
"Where you mean ?" demanded the guide, "over to America?
I know--for that ole Chicago show! You are the five hundred American who has said that to me this summer! Number five hundred! Nossir, we don't lend those carriage.