“I know the trick. It’s a good one—except for the guy that gets it.”
“It wouldn’t have hurt him. He’d have landed in the fountain.”
“So he would. What then?”
“Oh, I’d have held him there till he got cooled off, and then made a run for it. A wet man can’t catch a dry man.”
“Say, son, you’re a dry one, all right.”
“Eh?”
“Wake up! I’m saying you’re all right.”
“Much obliged.”
“You certainly took enough off him to rile a sheep. Why didn’t you do it?”
“Do what?”