23/27 But if you take the dollars, you've got to take me." "Ah!" said Festing. "But why do you want to join ?" "To begin with, I'm getting avaricious and want to go home with my wallet full. I suppose it's a foreman's privilege to insult his gang, but the brute we've got is about the limit. He's truculent but not very big, and some day, if I stop on, I'll pitch the hog into the river. |