Dick: What were you, a bull or a bear?
Tom: Neither. They made a monkey out of me.
Dick: Serves you right! In the first act—
Tom: Say, are you still in the first act?
Dick: Certainly. Why don’t you let me go on?
Tom: O, go on; I don’t care what happens.
Dick: Well, in the first act, I have written—
Tom: You have written home for money.
Dick: Yes, I have written home—no, nothing of the sort.
Tom: Not guilty?