"We knowed you'd be here."
"What of that?"
"Waal, we reckoned mebbe we'd be able to git up some kind of a three-cornered show an' keep from starvin'. That was aour scheme. I dunno haow it'll hit ye, Frank."
"I have just given a show at the opera house here."
"Yeou hev?"
"Yes."
"Whut kaind of a show?"
Then Frank explained just what had happened and what he had done, while his two friends listened in open-mouthed astonishment and admiration.
"Jest like ye, by gum!" shouted Ephraim. "Can't throw yeou down! Yeou alwus light on yeour feet!"