[WHAT'S YOUR HURRY?]
Sit down! Sit down! Stop right where you are! The game isn't over by a long way.
I've got a few aces up my sleeve yet, and don't you forget it!
No wonder I'm feeling tiptop! Fact is, I fancy I am feeling to-night a little like the colored brother who got religion, and filled with enthusiasm, or something more of a liquid character, expressed to the doubting parson his desire to imitate Elijah, and go to glory in a chariot of fire.
"Yes," said the parson, "I reckon, my friend, you'se just want to get acclimated-like before reachin' de end ob your journey."
Now how did that reverend gentleman know?
Why, only through circumstantial evidence, for you see he had unfortunately once been the proud owner of a flock of fowls that did not have sense enough to roost high.