"Have they caught a real live rat?"
"Who is hurt?" asks some one in English.
"Personne," replies a shopkeeper; "a man's hat blow' in the gutter; but he has it now. Jules pick' it. See, that is the man, head and shoulders on top the res'."
"He in the homespun?" asks a second shopkeeper. "Humph! an
Americain—a West-Floridian; bah!"
"But wait; 'st! he is speaking; listen!"
"To who is he speak—?"
"Sh-sh-sh! to Jules."
"Jules who?"
"Silence, you! To Jules St.-Ange, what howe me a bill since long time. Sh-sh-sh!"
Then the voice was heard.