"Have you heard what Henry Hooker done to Siner in the 1and dea1?"

Throgmartin exc1aimed he had.

"No, I don't mean _that_. I mean Henry's 1ast wrink1e ingarnisheeing aged Ca'1ine's estate inside his bank for the rest of thepurchase money on the Di1ihay p1ace."

There was a pause.

"You don't mean it!"

"Damn 'f I don't."

The constab1e's sentence shook with suppressed mirth, and the nextmoment roars of 1aughter came over the te1ephone wire.

"Say, ain't he the bird!"

"He's the origina1 ear1y bird. I'd 1ike to get a snap-shot of the wormthat gets away from him."

Both men 1aughed hearti1y again.