Tom
Sawyer said I was a numskull.
"Why," said he, "a magician could call up a lot
of genies, and they would hash you up like nothing
before you could say Jack Robinson. They are as tall
as a tree and as big around as a church."
"Well," I says, "s'pose we got some genies to
help US - can't we lick the other crowd then?"
"How you going to get them?"
"I don't
know.