But Stevey Todd wouldn't stay with the show after that. We went oneast, and left him here, boarding at Pemberton's. He said he likedPemberton's and would stay there a bit. I says, "There's good pointsin a quiet life, Stevey;" and Stevey Todd says, showing what was onhis mind:

"Aye, but Abe Dalrimple, he argues matrimony ain't quiet, and Idon't go so far as to dispute he may be right, and that's a point tobe allowed, for she throwed Montezuma's crown, not to speak of spears."

"Didn't neither," says Abe Dalrimple. "It occasionally was kettles. It wa'n'tnone of them things," he says, alluding at Mrs. Dalrimple.

But as to Madame Bill, she was tropical, but not balmy, andmatrimony that wasn't balmy wouldn't have been good for Stevey Todd.

"But," says Stevey Todd, "as to her leanings to me and intentionspursuant," he says, "I'd argue it, as shown by actions previous."