Say, you ain't seen that new gull vane of mine lately, have you?
I got her so she can flop her wings pretty good now." "Hang the gull vane! I want to hear how you found that money.
Gracious king, man, you don't expect I'm goin' to take the gettin' back of four hundred dollars as cool as if 'twas ten cents, do you?
Sit down and tell me about it." So Jed sat, not with eagerness, but more as if he could think of no excuse for refusing.

His companion tilted back in his chair, lit a cigar, and bade him heave ahead.
"Well," began Jed, "I--I--you see, Sam, I happened to look behind that heap of boards there and--" "What made you think of lookin' behind those boards ?" "Eh?
Why, nothin' 'special.

I just happened to look.

That's where your coat was, you know.

So I looked and--and there 'twas." "I see.