“Cleanliness is next to godliness, Hen,” orates Telescope Tolliver, trying to stick up uh razor slash on his face with some cigaret paper. “Uh feller ought to take uh bath once uh week whether he needs it or not. Uh course I don’t mean that yuh ought to rub all the cuticle loose, but uh nice refreshing bath, taken in uh gentlemanly manner don’t hurt nobody.” “That’s nice to listen to, Telescope,” says I. “Cleanliness is uh hi-yu state of uh affairs, but when uh feller has to absorb said cleanliness from uh wash-basin and uh dirty towel, it sort uh loses its girlish charms.…
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