“Just because uh sixteen upside down is ninety-one,” agrees Magpie. “How do yuh figure you’re out eleven dollars and four cents?”
“I gave uh five spot to Art for holding his tongue, and Buck took uh five for the busted looking-glass. Sabe? That’s ten. The dollar I had to pay uh feller in Great Falls for writing that scientific letter, one dollar, and it cost me postage both ways. She totals up to eleven dollars and four cents, Magpie.”
“Say, Chuck, where did yuh invent the name ‘Railami’ for that bird?”
“Spell it backward, Ike,” says he.
“You are,” states Magpie.
Transcriber’s Note: This story appeared in the April 3, 1918 issue of Adventure magazine.