“Where is it?” he rubbered.

“Where’s what?”

“The dog house that you were just talking about.”

“Bow-wow,” says I, to help things along.

“I’m going to call my father,” fatty then blew up, madder than a dozen wet hens.

“Don’t bother,” Poppy turned up his nose, “for we’ve already met him.”

That put the kid wise, which proved that he wasn’t such a hopeless dumb-bell after all.

“Now I know who youse guys are,” says he, giving us a pair of evil eyes.

“Who told you, Lena?”

“Lena? Lena who?”