Prayter said with a smile to the faces looking down, "Rilly—this train's a joke, isn't it!"A wag yelled, "Yes—a smutty one!"With raucous laughter in his ears, the parson turned and looked for Lace, feeling rather lonely.
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 178