Perf. Constantinople.
Joey. Constable.
Perf. That was wrong. Constantinople—not constable.
Joey. Well, that isn’t the way we spelt it when I went to school.
Perf. Well how did you spell it, then?
Joey. We spelt it in this way: Con, with a stan, with a t, with a ti, with a tipple, with a tople, with a Constantinople.
Perf. Good, Mr. Joey! After that we——
Fred. (interrupting). I say, Mr. Valentine?
Perf. Yes, Freddy.
Fred. Do you know that Joe went down-town and knocked down an old woman near sixty years old?