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 and the salmon. They eat all they can, and what they can't, they can.'

"Oh, no," denied Jimmy, "I canned that joke along with the other stale one about the lightship. Remember it! You tell a rube they raise all the vegetables they eat on that boat. Then the boob pops his eyes, and you explain they raise 'em from the row boat onto the deck."

"Bury all those chestnuts and bury 'em deep," directed Cat, with a pained expression. "But, say, that reminds me—"

"Just one more," interrupted Jimmy. "This is a bird for Legs. Say, Legs, know how long a fellow's legs ought to be? Don't know? Here's the answer. Just long enough to reach from his body to the ground. Hear that joke crack?"

Jimmy pounded Legs, delightedly.

"Put him out!" shouted Legs, at the same time giving his chum a shove that nearly landed him in the passageway. "You cribbed that joke from Adam. I heard that before you were born."

"Bury that, too," directed Cat, when Jimmy had righted himself and was trying, in revenge