“Bless me! wait a minute—I believe they were dappled—no, they were black.”
“That’s 24.—Were they harnessed?”
“I should say so!”
“That’s 23.—Did they run fast?”
“Like the Circus!”
“That’s 72.”
“All right! arrange ’em right for me. With such a dream as that, I can’t fail to have a carriage to ride in.”
“I had a funnier dream than that! I was in a country where there was cows that danced with shepherds and shepherdesses, and houses built of gingerbread.”
“The deuce you say! You could get fat by licking the walls.”
“Let her go on, saucebox.”