"Noddings vould blease me besser."
"Are yer goin' ter stop?"
"Nien!"
"Then yer a dead Dutchman!"
And so saying Tim chased him into the store-room of the Terror, where the parrot and monkey were roosting, and a moment afterwards the four became tangled up in a struggle that shook the stage like an earthquake.
It did not last long.
When Tim, Fritz, Whiskers and Bismarck emerged from the room, they looked as if they had been passed through a threshing machine, but they were on terms of good fellowship.
Shortly afterwards, Sheriff Timberlake shook hand, with the three friends and departed.
Jack then made preparations to return home.
As soon as the Terror was ready, they left Macon City and started across the country at a rapid pace.