 
 <prompt> CHAPTER XVIII. THE SAUSAGE CHAPPIE 

Di persin wey win cost Archie two dollars for cash and plenti embarrassment wen e ask for am for di store. To buy treatise of dat name go automatically look like say you no get winning personality already, and Archie bin dey try explain give di girl wey dey for counter say e want am for one friend. Di girl look like say she dey more interested for im English accent pass for im explanation, and Archie bin dey uncomfortably aware, as e dey waka comot, say she dey practice am for undertone sake of her colleagues and fellow-workers. Anyhow, wetin be small discomfort, if e dey endure am sake of friendship?

E bin dey waka up Broadway after e don comot from di store wen e jam Reggie van Tuyl, wey dey drift like person wey dey sleep-walk near Thirty-Ninth Street.

"Hullo, Reggie old thing!" Archie talk.

"Hullo!" Reggie talk, na man wey no too dey talk.

"I just buy book for Bill Brewster," Archie continue. "E be like say old Bill--What's the matter?"

E stop im tori sharp-sharp. One kind spasm bin pass across im friend face. Di hand wey dey hold Archie arm bin tighten convulsively. Pesin fit talk say Reginald don receive shock.

"E no mean anything," Reggie talk. "I dey okay now. I just see dat guy clothes sharp-sharp. E shake me small. I dey okay now," e talk, bravely.

Archie, as e dey follow im friend eye, understand. Reggie van Tuyl no too strong for morning, and e get sensitive eye for clothes. E don resign from clubs sake of say members dey pass boundary for di matter of soft shirts with dinner-jackets. And di short, thick-set man wey dey stand just for front of dem for restful immobility no be dandy at all. Im best friend no fit call am dapper. Take am as e be, e fit don dey pose as model for sketch of Wetin the Well-Dressed Man No Suppose Wear.

1. Wetin Archie dey buy?
2. For himself?
3. For who then?
4. Why e dey buy am for am?
5. E talk to anybody for di store?
6. Who?
7. She dey interested for am?
8. Why?
9. So wetin e do after di store?
10. Dem talk?
11. Wetin dem talk about?
12. Dem be friends?
13. How dem sabi each other?
14. Im buddy strong?
15. Why e no strong?
16. Any idea why?
17. E be snob? <response>: 1. one book
2. No
3. for Bill Brewster
4. unknown
5. Yes
6. the girl wey dey for counter
7. Yes
8. she bin dey interested for im English accent
9. he jam Reggie van Tuy
10. Yes
11. About the book and about a man's clothing
12. Yes
13. unknown
14. No
15. he no dey too strong for morning
16. he sabi well well about clothes and e see one man wey dress waka
17. Yes 