This is the first time I've been out in a canoe since I saw The American Tragedy.
Oh, you're perfectly safe, Professor, in this boat.
I don't know. I was going to get a flat bottom but the girl at the boat house didn't have one.
Well you know, Professor, I could go on like this, drifting and dreaming forever. What a day! Spring in the air.
Who, me? I should spring in the air and fall in the lake?
Oh, Professor, you're full of whimsy.
Can you notice it from there? I'm always that way after I eat radishes. (he adjusts his jacket, and a piece of paper falls from his pocket into the lake; he grabs an oar and tries to pull it back)
Oh, is that important? (tries to help him)
Is it important?! Those are the football signals! (a duck begins eating the signals, Wagstaff sits down again) Let 'em go. Luckily, I've got a duplicate set in my pocket. I always carry two of everything- this is the first time I've ever been out with one woman.
Oh, you mean you take two girls out every time?
Do you know, Professor, I've never seen football signals? Do you think a little girl like me could understand them?
I think a little girl like you would understand practically anything.
Is gweat big stwong man gonna show liddle icky baby all about the bad footbawl signals?
[startled]
Was that you or the duck? 'Cause if it was you, I'm gonna finish this ride with the duck.
If icky baby don't learn about the footbawl signals, icky baby gonna cwy.
If icky girl keep on tawking that way, big stwong man gonna kick all her teef wight down her thwoat.
