"Don't know Sly?"

"No."

"Well, if you did know him, you'd know that he's just the man we want;
bang up; made for it."

"Oh, is he?"

"You bet--A1."

"Well," said the member who had first announced that Sly was the very
man for the place, "I suppose they'll be waiting. I nominate Sly as
the candidate."

The chairman said yes, but that, unfortunately for himself, he did not
know Mr. Sly.

"Well, you don't know anything against him, do you?" asked the other.

"Certainly not."

"Well, we all know him, and he is the very man. We ought to hurry."

Honestus put the question, and Sly was unanimously named as the
candidate to be reported to the meeting by the chairman.

The meeting was already stamping and clapping and calling for the
committee, and the energetic mover of Sly said that it was necessary