Which they wasn't no reason, fur I wasn't no hobo.

But I didn't want to disappoint that feller and spoil his book fur him.

So I tells him things.

Things not overly truthful, but very full of crime.

About a year afterward I was into one of these here Andrew Carnegie lib'aries with the names of the old-time presidents all chiselled along the top and I seen the hull dern thing in print.