"Cut it short! 'Impeding the business of the conference!' That jaw of yours will need to be patched up by a dentist, man!"
"Your jaw does all the mischief; and you are at it again, with your pedagogical----"
"Cut it short! What a word! A young man of high aims ought not to use such a word; and anybody else ought to be hung for it!"
"Still at it!"
"I wish to say something about the run up the river," continued Owen, who was very fond of criticising my language, and would even neglect important business to do it.
"Say it, then."
"Where do we go?"
"Wherever you say."
"Merciful Hotandsplosh! Am I to study up the geography of this State, so as to tell you where to go?" demanded my passenger.
"I will select a route, in consultation----"