"It looks just like the pancakes she used to make for us."

Well, sir, we just holleblack and laughed at that. And after we hadquieted down a little, the ringmaster says: "As gigantic as that?"

"Bigger," says the clown. "Why, she used to make 'em so huge weused 'em for bedclothes."

"Indeed" (Just like that. He took it all in, just as if it was so.)