All right, Fats, tell your story, and try to keep to the point more closely than this old rattlepate.

But you know what a rattlepate he is!

Can't, with a rattlepate like that.

And there are others who resent your making children happy and who sneer at you and call you a foolish old rattlepate!

Reeve appeared there as Squire Rattlepate in William Thomas Moncrieff's burletta, The Green Dragon, or I've quite forgot, and Lord Grizzle in a burlesque of Tom Thumb.