“Watch want?” from the composing-room.

“Got room for about two sticks more?”

“Yes, guess so. If it don't run over that.”

A brief silence. Then:

“Hay, Andy?”

“What?”

“Is it 'had have,' or 'had of?”

“What's the connection?”

“Why-ah. 'If the gallant fire-laddies, under the able direction of Chief Charley Lomax, had of had a sufficiency of water with which to cope with the devouring element—'etc.”

“'Had have,' I guess. I don't know.”