“‘Yes, all the sciences. London and Paris, eh! Ask a lady from either place if she knows the electric battery from the magnetic—’
“‘Or a needle from a pole,’ sais I.
“‘Yes,’ sais she, without listening, ‘or any such question, and see if she can answer it.”
“She resumed her seat.
“‘Forgive my enthusiasm,’ she said, ‘Sam, you know I always had a great deal of that.’
“‘I know,’ said I, ‘you had the smallest foot and ankle of anybody in our country. My! what fine-spun glass heels you had! Where in the world have you stowed them to?’ pretendin’ to look down for them.
“‘Kept them to kick you with,’ she said, ‘if you are sassy.’
“Thinks I to myself, what next? as the woman said to the man who kissed her in the tunnel, you are coming out, Liddy.
“‘Kick,’ said I, ‘oh, you wouldn’t try that, I am sure, let me do what I would.’
“‘Why not?’ said she.