"Why, that's the el'funt's tail!" said Danny. "Anybody could tell that."
He held it proudly up, displaying it in all its blue glory.
"El'funts' tails are small like a rope," Jerry remarked.
Danny laughed derisively. "Much you know about it! I guess a el'funt's about the biggest animal in the world and it wouldn't have a little ole tail like a rope."
"They are little, like a rope," Jerry insisted.
"How do you know they are?" asked Danny. "Just tell me how you know anything about it."
"I don't know, but I know," Jerry said, feeling all his obstinacy aroused by Danny's air of conscious superiority.
"There, you just said you didn't know," Celia Jane interposed, going to her elder brother's aid, as she always did in a dispute with Jerry.
"I didn't neither," asseverated Jerry.
"You said you didn't know," insisted Celia Jane.