Page:The worsted man; a musical play for amateurs, by John Kendrick Bangs.djvu/66

 The Worsted Man thing in de woyld to get in a place like dis in de summah - time. I got a box full ob em up-stairs in my room, suh, left over from last summah. Doll. Left over from last summer? Bell-Boy. Yassir. You see, suh, folks is mighty careless ob deir hearts in de summah-time. Dey cyarries em around on deir sleeves an 1 dey leaves em about kind o permiskious like. Dere s no end ob em gits lost, an de queer part ob it is dat de folks what loses em ain t willin to let on dey s done lost em. Las year, when de hotel shet up foh de season, I foun ten ob em lyin roun dis hyar place. One out in de woods; one ob em up on de mountain-side; two ob em floatin roun on de soy face ob de lake, three ob em in de summah-house down by de spring; two ob em in de dinin -room, an* one corkin big feller lyin longside de seventh hole on de golf-links. 48