anyway it got wrecked, and it was wrecked on a desert island, and when these three guys come ashore, they found that by golly everybody on the ship had been drowned except them and a girl they'd all been looking at on shipboard—
Say, I'll never forget the way Mack looked at us when he got to that point in the story.
He didn't say anything dirty. Naturally, Mack being an undertaker, it isn't proper for him to use common or improper language, but say, that fellow's just a natural clown. If he'd gone on the vaudeville stage, he'd 've made this Sir Harry Lauder look like seven cents. You could just feel those three birds were crazy about this girl—
By golly, I certainly did enjoy that story. I'll never forget the whole background. It was one of the greatest nights I ever spent.
You see, if I may interrupt myself just for a second, we arrived at Joe Minchin's place—it's on Lake Misheepagontiluckit, which is in the northern part of the state, about four hours from Zenith—
