“What’s the answer?” laughed Dick. “What does she weigh?”
“She weighs anchor,” smiled Ted, satisfied at last.[last.]
“Great Cæsar!” exclaimed Jolliby. “These are coming fuf-fuf-fuf-fast!”
Immediately Smart bobbed up again.
“Speaking of Cæsar,” he said, “what proof have we that he was acquainted with the Irish?”
“Hacquainted with the Hirish!” said Bradley. “’Ow was ’e? ’E couldn’t ’ave been!”
“History proves it,” asserted Ted.
“Hi don’t believe hit,” declared Billy. “What’s there in ’istory that proves Cæsar was hacquainted with the Hirish?”
“Why,” grinned Smart, “after he crossed the Rhine, didn’t he come back to bridge it?”
“What ’as that got to do with hit?” snorted the Cockney youth.