An author can't no more help authorizing than a stray pup can help scratching.' "'But,' she says, 'it must be true what I've heard about authorizing being a poor paying job.' "'Why ?' I asks, being suspicious.
"'Because,' she says, 'if it wasn't you wouldn't be touring around to sell your own books after you've wrote them.

That is hard work.

Now, I have to stay in this kitchen and perspire because I have to, but if you was rich off your books you wouldn't sit on that chair and get all stewed up.

I can see that.' "'What you can't see,' I says, 'is that I came here just because I was the writer of this here composition.

Money I don't desire to wish for.
Being a rich man and a philanthropist, I give all I make off of this book to the poor.