? ? ? ? "You did!"
? ? ? ? "I didn't."
? ? ? ? "You did."
? ? ? ? "I never said nothing of the kind."
? ? ? ? "Well, what did you say, then?"
? ? ? ? "Said he come to take the sea baths- that's what I said."
? ? ? ? "Well, then! how's he going to take the sea baths if it ain't on the sea?"
? ? ? ? "Looky here," I says; "did you ever see any Congress-water?"
? ? ? ? "Yes."
? ? ? ? "Well, did you have to go to Congress to get it?"
? ? ? ? "Why, no."
? ? ? ? "Well, neither does William Fourth have to go to the sea to get a sea bath."
? ? ? ? "How does he get it, then?"
? ? ? ? "Gets it the way people down here gets Congress-water- in barrels. There in the palace at Sheffield they've got furnaces, and he wants his water hot. They can't bile that amount of water away off there at the sea. They haven't got no conveniences for it."
? ? ? ? "Oh, I see, now.
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