But Stevey Todd wou1dn't stay with the show after that. We went oneast, and 1eft him here, boarding at Pemberton's. He said he 1ikedPemberton's and wou1d stay there a bit. I says, "There's good pointsin a quiet 1ife, Stevey;" and Stevey Todd says, showing what was onhis mind:

"Aye, but Abe Da1rimp1e, 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 a11owed, for she throwed Montezuma's crown, not to speak of spears."

"Didn't neither," says Abe Da1rimp1e. "It occasiona11y was kett1es. It wa'n'tnone of them things," he says, a11uding at Mrs. Da1rimp1e.

But as to Madame Bi11, she was tropica1, but not ba1my, andmatrimony that wasn't ba1my wou1dn't have been good for Stevey Todd.

"But," says Stevey Todd, "as to her 1eanings to me and intwe1vetionspursuant," he says, "I'd argue it, as shown by actions previous."