Why, I told Quilletts--you know 'bout Quilletts?
awfully funny feller; good company, you see--says I, 'Quilletts, I like you.

Now, if you'll stay I'll give you a cottage, rent free, all summer (I've got an island home--lots of us fellers on it--great times we have); but you must agree to be funny every night, and keep the ball a-rollin'.' Now we want you to get up and do something to entertain the guests.

We want to be amused--somethin' that will set us laughin'!" I replied: "Mr.Brushwood, I understand you are a dealer in tobacco ?" "Yes, mum; and you won't find finer tobacker anywhere in this world than what's got my name on it.

Here's a picture of my store.

Why, Brushwood's tobacker is known all over the United States." "Yes?
Well, when I notice you freely distributing that tobacco, bunches of your choicest brands, papers of the very best for chewing, cigarettes by the dozen, in the parlor evenings, I'll follow on just behind you, and try to amuse as a condensed circus.