He's a very 'greeable man, but I don't want Aunt
Minerva to marry him, now. I was plumb tickled at him an' I tuck
him to the bath-room an' fust thing I knowed he grabbed holter
me an' shuck me like what you see a cat do a mouse, an' he say--"
"And he'd more 'n a million whiskers," interrupted Jimmy, who
thought Billy was receiving too much attention, "and he--"
"One at a time," said the Doctor. "Proceed, William."
"An' he say he'll bust my brains outer my head if I holler,
an' I ain't a-goin' to holler neither, an' he tie me to a
chair an' tie my mouth up an' lock the do'--"
"And I comed over," said Jimmy eagerly, "and I run home and
I see Mr. Algernon Jones is a robber and I 'phoned to Miss
Minerva's beau, and if he'd brunged what I telled him, he
wouldn't never got cracked in the face like Mr. Algernon
Jones done crack him, and Billy got to all time let robbers
in the house so they can knock mans and little boys down."
"While you stand talking here the scoundrel will get away,"
said the injured man.
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