He has things on his mind.

You see--' "I cal'late he'd have told us the yarn, only Sim wouldn't wait to hear it.

We was goin' sight-seein' and we had 'aquarium' and 'Stock Exchange' on the list for that afternoon.

The hotel clerk had made out a kind of schedule for us of things we'd ought to see while we was in New York, and so fur we'd took in the zoological menagerie and the picture museum, and Central Park and Brooklyn Bridge.
"On the way downtown in the elevated railroad Sim done some preachin'.
His text was took from the Golconda House sign, which had 'T.

Dempsey, Proprietor,' painted on it.
"'It's that Dempsey man's conscience that makes him so blue, Hiram,' says Sim.