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?