I had a first-rate bath, and I saw a Minorcan." "You don't say so!" I cried.

"What was he like?
Had he horns?
And how did you know what he was ?" "I asked him," said Rectus.
"Asked him!" I exclaimed.

"You don't mean to say that you got up early and went around asking people if they were Mohicans!" "Minorcans, I said." "Well, it's bad enough, even if you got the name right.

Did you ask the man plump to his face ?" "Yes.

But he first asked me what I was.