Yes, he's a good-humored fellow. He has just come from school, what they usually call a "smarty."
SHOEMAK.
Well, good-bye.
[Exit.]
GOTTLIEB.
Wouldn't you perhaps like to have your whiskers trimmed too?
HINZE.
On no account, I look so much more respectable, and you certainly must know that cats immediately become unmanly after that. A tom-cat without whiskers is but a contemptible creature.
GOTTLIEB.
If I only knew what you are planning!