I've never seen a man put down so quick.

I couldn't have floored him so beautifully if I'd hit him with a spanner.

But that was only part of the entertainment.
Curtis--mind you, before that I'd been treatin' him as an ordinary dude in evenin' dress--acted like an injarubber man filled with chain lightning.

He shoved 'Valtaw' back into the auto, grabs the brake an' gear lever, an' puts 'em both out of action, sweeps the two girls into my cab, and----" Here the taxi-driver bethought himself, and grinned vacuously.
"Well--an' here I am," he concluded.
"I suppose he handed out a good fare," said his wife.
"Yes, he was quite decent about it.

Tipped me a couple of dollars over an' above the register." "I should have thought it would have been more.