"'So long, professor,' she says to me when she's goin'. 'Much obliged for the lesson. Our act will be a scream.'
"Not long after that they moves the dingus over to the theater, 'n' Banks tells me to bring the hosses over at three o'clock the next day. I'm there to the minute, but nobody shows up 'n' I stands out in front with the dogs fur what seems like a week. All of a sudden a tall pale guy, who ain't got no coat on, comes bustin' out of the entrance.
"'Where in hell and damnation have you been with these skates?' he says. His hair is stickin' up on end 'n' he's got a wild look in his eye.
"'Batty as a barn,' I says to myself, 'n' gets behind Edwin Booth.
"'Speak up!' says the pale guy. 'Before I do murder!' I looks up 'n' down the street—not a cop in sight.
"'I'm a gone fawn skin,' I says to myself, but I thinks I'll try to soothe him till help comes.
"'That's all right, pal, that's all right,' I says to him. 'These pretty hosses are in a show. Did you ever see a show? I seen a show once that—'
"'My poor boy,' he says, breakin' in. 'I didn't know! What got into Banks?' he says, sort-a to hisself. 'Try and remember,' he says to me, 'weren't you told to bring these pretty horses here at three o'clock?'
"That puts me jerry, 'n' I sure am sore when I thinks how he gets my goat.
"'Why, you big stiff!' I says. 'Ain't I been standin' here with these plugs fur a week? If you wants 'em, why don't you come 'n' tell me to lead 'em in? Do you think I'm a mind-reader?'