"To mash potatoes with your wooden leg."
"But I don't; I use a potato masher like anybody else."
"Then I don't see why you said you made your living with your wooden leg."
"I didn't. I said I made my living on it, and I do, because I always stand up to mash potatoes." And Mumbledy Peg spun around on his wooden leg in great delight.
"You're making fun of me," said Billy.
"No, you were already funny; I didn't make you so."
Mumbledy Peg.
"If you can't talk seriously and without insulting me——" began Billy.