"I sabe what you are hintin' at when you gas of morals--which I'm a heap acquainted with because I ain't got none to speak of.

But I'm plumb flabbergasted when you go to connectin' a battleship with anything that's got a whole lot to do with morals.

Accordin' to my schoolin', a monitor is a thing which blows the stuffin' out of----" "A monitor of morals could do that," gravely said Lawler.

"In fact, according to the best authorities, there have been many monitors who have blown the stuffing out of the reputations of their charges." Blackburn gulped.

He was puzzled, and his eyes were glazed with the incomprehension which had seized him.