"Did he have big pockets?"
"A-w-f-u-l big."
"What did he have in them?"
"Nobody could tell, as he wore a brass coat, and he was brass all over him, from his head to his toes."
"Whew!"
"Yes, cap and coat and pants all shining with bright bits of brass, and these bits of brass were all lapped together like the scales of a fish."
"W-h-e-w! And what was that for?"
"So nothing could hit him and hurt him."
"Wouldn't a bullet hurt him?"
"They didn't have pistols in those days."