"Yes, that's the thing! We can stand for some things some of the time, but we won't stand for everything all of the time," added a clown wisely.
Half a dozen performers picked Teddy up bodily, bore him to one of the open windows and dumped him out on the deck.
"Here, what's all this commotion about?" commanded Phil, who, at that moment, came from his cabin to the deck.
"They threw me out," wailed Teddy.
"What for?"
"I made a pun."
"Tell it to me."
Teddy in short, jerky sentences, related what had been done and said. Phil leaned against the rail and shouted.
"I—I don't blame them," he gasped between laughs. "It is a wonder they did not throw you overboard."
"They had better not try it."