And being a confiding sort of a fellow myself I actually believed this song and dance for a time.
I know better now.
Here's where the bars were lowered.
Cribber has a lovely home, and a devoted wife, who has long been one of my wife's best friends.
The other day when she was at the house she took advantage of my wife running upstairs to get her hat on, to put me on the rack.
I was surprised.
What do you think she asked me?
She wanted to know whether the air down on Long Island had malaria in it, and especially around Sheepshead Bay, where the horses ran.
I assured her that so far as I knew it was considered fully as healthy as any other part of the shore.