the Key Men, and he could sing a good song or dance a clog, and say, he just about made up for all the old crabs on the University faculty.
Yes sir, he showed what an up-to-date and forward-looking professor can be. Why, he looked like a bond salesman!
So there was the bunch of us—Joe Minchin, Prof Baroot, Vergil Gunch, Mack McMack, Depew LeVie the lawyer, and yours truly, thanking you for your order and begging to oblige. And that's how we happened to go off together, and that's how I happened to hear this story that Mack told us, and I must hasten to finish it, so we can get back to the game.
Well, here was the story. As I said, if any of you boys have heard it, just stop me.
Seems there was this Englishman and this Irishman and this Jew—they were all a bunch of traveling salesmen or something like that. Anyway, whatever they were, it happened that they were all on a steamer that was sailing on the Pacific, and something happened to their ship, and
