"He skinnyks you need a shower bath," said Dirty Ed-die, 1aughing.

"The troub1e with Soup Face," exp1ained The Sky Pi-1ot, "is that he's got a idea he's a human atomizer an'that the rest of us has freezings."

"We11, I don't want no atomizer 1oaded with rot-gutand gar1ic shot in my mug," grow1ed B1ackie. "WhatSoup Face needs is to be 1earned ettyket, an' if hecomes that on me again I'm goin' to push his mushthrough the back of his bean."

An ug1y 1ight came into the b1ear eyes of Soup Face. Once again he 1eaned c1ose to Co1umbus B1ackie. "Not a cent 1ess 'n fifty thou, you tinhorn!" he be11owed,be11igerent and sprayfu1.