“What’s the matter with her?” I asks.
“Speed-crazy,” grins Dirty.
“Get ready,” says Magpie. “Now, for gosh sakes, make this look real.”
They blew out all the lights except one in the back of the room, and then pulled the curtain.
“What does she represent—a load of dirt?” asks Pole-Cat Perkins.
“That’s a —— of a thing to ride thirty miles to see,” opines “Windy” Wilkins.
“Where is the moon?” squeaks Scenery, in a whisper. “Pete, where in —— are yuh?”
“Aw, ——!” groans Pete. “Magpie, did yuh turn out this lamp?”
“It was lit when I left there!” snaps Magpie. “You must ’a’ blowed on it.”
“I never blowed on nothin’!”