"Yesterday," continued the real toreador, "I killed four bulls in the arena."
"I had him for breakfast."
"What are you talking about? What did you have for breakfast?"
"Farina."
Peter thought he would go but he waited in the hope that it might get better. Presently Shean and the tall man got into an argument. The serious one of the pair contended that Otto Schmaltz, the character played by Shean, did not have a whole shirt on his back.
"I bet you! I bet you!" shouted Schmaltz dancing about and patting the other man on the cheek. They came close to the footlights and placed huge piles of stage money side by side.
"Now," said the big man, "the bet is you haven't got a whole shirt on your back."
"Ches," replied Schmaltz.
"Why, you poor pusillanimous, transcendental, ossified little shrimp, you," said the big man. "Of course you haven't got a whole shirt on your back. Half of it is on the front."
"Ha! Ha! Ha!" he continued sneeringly and kicked the little man resoundingly while the crowd screamed.