so’s to be that kind o’ animal called second mate this trip. Ain’t you most through with that triple invoiced college of yours?”
“Getting that way. I tell you, the Leland Stanford Junior, isn’t a circumstance to the old We’re Here ; but I’m coming into the business for keeps next fall.”
“Meanin’ aour packets?”
“Nothing else. You just wait till I get my knife into you, Dan. I’m going to make the old line lie down and cry when I take hold.”
“I’ll resk it,” said Dan, with a brotherly grin, as Harvey dismounted and asked whether he were coming in.
“That’s what I took the cable fer; but, say, is the doctor anywheres araound? I’ll draown that crazy nigger some day, his one cussed joke an’ all.”
There was a low, triumphant chuckle,