Hank Bracket:  You know , my partner 's an old hand at these necktie parties .
Miss Baker: Oh ?
Hank Bracket: No , really . The first _ one _ I attended , he was the guest of honor . That 's where I found him . I just plucked him out of a cottonwood tree ... and he was n't very ripe either .
Johnny Reach: I 'd be swingin ' there yet if old Hank had n't happened by ... and spoke up from the other end of a double - stacked blowgun .