So fur as handing out money fur you to sling it to the dogs, I ain't no bank, and if I was I ain't no ijut.

But you jest let me hear of you even going nigh that circus lot and all the lammings you has ever got, rolled into one, won't be a measly little sarcumstance to what you WILL get.

They ain't no leather-faced young upstart with weepin'-willow hail going to throw up to me how I brung him up.

That's gratitood fur you, that is!" says Hank.
"If it hadn't of been fur me giving you a home when I found you first, where would you of been now ?" "Well," I says, "I might of been a good 'eal better off.

If you hadn't of took me in the Alexanderses would of, and then I wouldn't of been kep' out of school and growed up a ignoramus like you is." "I never had no trouble keeping you away from school, I notice," says Hank, with a snort.