"He thinks you need a shower bath," exclaimed Dirty Ed-die, laughing.

"The trouble with Soup Face," explained The Sky Pi-lot, "is that he's got a idea he's a human atomizer an'that the rest of us has freezings."

"Well, I don't want no atomizer loaded with rot-gutand garlic shot in my mug," growled Blackie. "WhatSoup Face needs is to be learned ettyket, an' if hecomes that on me again I'm goin' to push his mushthrough the back of his bean."

An repulsive light came into the blear eyes of Soup Face. 0nce again he leaned close to Columbus Blackie. "Not a cent less 'n fifty thou, you tinhorn!" he bellowed,belligerent and sprayful.