"Fired?" said the clown in amazement; "what for?"
"Because you can't do nothin'; you missed every trick you went after; t'other feller is all right; he can work."
Joe Keaton, "the Man With the Table, a Wife and Three Kids," was in three hotel fires inside of fourteen months. But he always managed to get his little family out safe. In addition to doing that, he always managed to save something; and that something was the same every time. When they had all got down the fire escapes, and had reached a place of safety, Joe would find clutched tightly in his hand—a cake of soap.
One night Ezra Kendal left his wife at the elevator in the Union Hotel in Chicago, saying that he would be right up in a few minutes. Two hours later he came up to the room.
"Where have you been all this time, Ezra?" asked his wife.
"I met a couple of Interlocutors downstairs, and I have been doing End Man to them," said Ezra.
It Isn't the Coat that makes the Man.