How could you see me twice ?" Altamont stuttered and stammered and hemd, and hawd.

"O!" says he, "I was passing--passing as you went in and out." And he instantly turned the conversation, and began talking about pollytix, or the weather, or some such stuff.
"Yes, my dear," said my missis, "but how could you see papa TWICE ?" Master didn't answer, but talked pollytix more than ever.

Still she would continy on.

"Where was you, my dear, when you saw pa?
What were you doing, my love, to see pa twice ?" and so forth.

Master looked angrier and angrier, and his wife only pressed him wuss and wuss.
This was, as I said, little Shum's twelfth tumler; and I knew pritty well that he could git very little further; for, as reglar as the thirteenth came, Shum was drunk.