"I don't exactly know," sez I, "but I rather fancy that there barrel bears that name." The little man went up to the barrel, and seemed regularly all took aback when he saw the address, and then he pitched into us for not having brought what he wanted.

"I don't care a damn what you want," sez I to him, "but if you are Will'm Bent Pitman, there's your barrel."' 'Well, and did he take it ?' cried the breathless Morris.
'Well, sir,' returned Bill, 'it appears it was a packing-case he was after.

The packing-case came; that's sure enough, because it was about the biggest packing-case ever I clapped eyes on.

And this Pitman he seemed a good deal cut up, and he had the superintendent out, and they got hold of the vanman--him as took the packing-case.

Well, sir,' continued Bill, with a smile, 'I never see a man in such a state.
Everybody about that van was mortal, bar the horses.