"Attend to this matter promptly, Major, and you'll see the result when you come to us in July for your vacation." Having attended to all the requirements of the projected _Millville Tribune_, as he thought, Mr.Merrick called the operator for the amount of his bill and paid it to Sam Cotting--three dollars and eighty cents.
The sum fairly made the onlookers gasp, and as the Merrick party passed out, Silas, the miller, said solemnly: "Don't anybody tell me talk is cheap, arter this.

John Merrick may be a millionaire, but ef he keeps this thing up long he'll be a pauper.
Thet's _my_ prophe-sigh." "Yer off yer base, Si," said McNutt "Joe Wegg tol' me once thet the nabob's earnin's on his money were more'n he could spend ef he lays awake nights a-doin' it.

Joe says it keeps pilin' up on him, till sometimes it drives him nigh desp'rit.

I hed an idee I'd ask him to shuck off some of it onter me.

_I_ could stan' the strain all right, an' get plenty o' sleep too." "Ye won't hev no call to stan' it, Peggy," pre-dcted Lon Tait.
"Milyunhairs may spend money foolish, but they don't never give none away.