It’s a humdinger! It’s a pippin! It’s a looloo!

[He surveys it from top to bottom.]

T’ink of it, Slim, just t’ink of it: a tree like dat—an’ fer one kid!

Slim

Pretty soft, I’ll tell de woild!

Bill

’Tain’t fair! ’Tain’t! Here we got eight young ’uns at home, an’ I promised ’em a tree fer Christmas, an’ dey ain’t got nuttin’: not even a geranium! Gee, wouldn’t dey love dis!

Slim

[Scornfully.]

Are yuh gettin’ mushy?