It makes me feel queer.
Sez I, "What are you a-layin' out to set off for Washington, D.C., for ?" My tone kinder hung on to him, and stiddied him down some.

And he lost some of his wild and excited mean.

And he stopped onbuttonin' his vest--he had onbuttoned his shirt-collar and took his old necktie off on his way from the gate--so ardent and impulsive is my dear pardner, and so anxious to start.
"Why," sez he, "I told you, didn't I?
I am goin' to Washington to tend to that Equinomical Counsel.

Five hundred male men are a-goin' to git together to counsel together on the best ways of bein' equinomical.

And here at last"-- sez he proudly--"here at last is the chance I have always been a-lookin' out for.