You know dem cups and saucers vat I bought off dot olt vomans who came up from Baltimore?
Do you know dot two of 'em is vorth more as ten dollars?
He find dot out joost as soon as he pick 'em up, and he find out about my chairs, and vich vas fakes and vich vas goot.

Vot you tink of my givin' him a job takin' my old cups and my soup tureens and stuff and go sell 'em someveres?
I don't got nobody since dot tam fool of a Svede go avay.

Vat you tink ?" "He can have my room--that's what I think! You heard what I said to him! That's all the answer you'll get out of me, Otto Kling." "An' you don't tink dot he'd git avay vid de stuff und ve haf to hunt up or down Second Avenue in the pawn-shops to git 'em back ?" "No, I don't!" "Den, by golly, I take him on, und I gif him every veek vat he pay you in board." Kitty broke into one of her derisive laughs.

"YOU WILL! Ain't that good of ye?
Ye'll give him enough to starve on, that's what it is.

Ye ought to be ashamed of yourself, Otto Kling!" "Vell, but I don't know vat he is vurth yet." "Well, then, tell him so, but don't cheat him out of everything but his bare board; and that's what ye'd be doin'.