used in constructing steel office buildings, except that this one
is more compact and can deliver about eighty-five more blows to the
second. Thus equipped, he descends far below your high water mark
and engages in aquatic sports and pastimes for a considerable
period of time. It seems to you that you never saw a man who could
go down and stay down as long as this young man can. You begin to
feel that you misjudged his real vocation in life when you decided
that he ought to be a boiler maker. You know that he was intended
for pearl fishing. He's a natural born deep sea diver. He doesn't
even have to come up to breathe, but stays below, knee deep in your
tide wash, merrily knocking chunks off your lowermost coral reefs
with his little steam riveter and having a perfectly lovely time.

You are overflowing copiously and you wish he would take the time
to stop and bail you out. You abhor the idea of being drowned as
an inside job. But no, he keeps right on and along about here it
is customary for you to swoon away.

On recovering, you observe that he has changed his mind again. He
is now going in for amateur theatricals and is using you for a
theatre. First thoughtfully draping a little rubber drop curtain
across your proscenium arch to keep you from seeing what is going
on behind your own scenes, he is setting the stage for the
thrilling sawmill scene in Blue Jeans. You can distinctly feel
the circular saw at work and you can taste a hod of mortar and a
bucket of hot tar and one thing and another that have been left in
the wings. You also judge that the insulation is burning off of
an electric fixture somewhere up stage.

All this time the tooth is still offering resistance, and