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If he found out that I was , figuratively speaking , riding herd on him , he would get chesty and all swelled up until it would be my painful duty to lance him . I do n't know yet whether Wilbur is a rhinestone Billie or a Whisky amber Billie with a dash of bitters Billie , but I am On the Job Betty , all right , all right . `` Well , to get back to the beefsteak . After all the guests had assembled , which was maybe some 2 a.m. , they started in . It was merely the ordinary stunt of beer and beefsteak and beefsteak and beer , but the hours were enlivened by the vaudeville performances of the guests . This was before the precinct sergeant knocked on the door . One old frump that must have been tramming a mace in the Roman Hanging Gardens got a yen that was doing imitations she had Elsie Janis and Gertrude Hoffman looking like a couple of false starts .