"Lot's of good that'll do me!"
Various suggestions were offered and rejected.
"Well, King," said the Tennessee Shad at last, "I don't see there's anything to it but you'll have to buckle down and study."
"Study?" said P. Lentz. "Is that the best you can produce?"
"It seems the simplest."
"I came here for consolation," said P. Lentz, who thereupon departed angrily.
"Still, it'll come to that," said the Tennessee Shad.
"P. Lentz study?" said Finnegan contemptuously. "Can a duck whistle?"
"Then we'll have to tutor him."
"What says Dink?"