course they drags every detail of my recent misadventure out of me and i warms to it , being a natural show-off and storyteller , and i prolly should n't but i really gets into the tellin ' of it , and they squeals and covers their mouths with their hands in shock and delight when i tells 'em about mrs. bodeen 's girls and specially about mam'selle claudelle day bour-bon .