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126 The tattered one looked his bewilderment, and Butts tried to make things clear.

"Are you game—to visit this dame called Sally and restore her own troo love? It means a little voyage on a steam road—ever see one, Columbus?"

Seeing that the befuddlement of the stranger was utter and complete, he tried pantomime,

"Railway, wheels," his hands revolved—"steam, savvy? Choo choo—toot, toot—ah, for Ned's sake, yuh stone wall from the Alhambra, come on!" and he seized the old fellow by the arm, and, like a self-important tug, hurried his strange convoy, man, dog, parrot, cage, and bandana bundle, to the railway station.