_Darn_ these fancy word slingers!" said Casey.

"An' the day before the note come due, here comes that shoestring in pants with the money to pay the note minus the damages, and four new tires fer the truck! Yessir, wouldn't buy tires off me, even! Could yuh beat that fer gall?
And he wouldn't hardly speak." Casey grinned and got his plug of tobacco and inspected the corners absently before he bit into it.

"But I got even with 'im," he added.

"I laid off till he got his tires on--an' I wouldn't lend him no tools to put 'em on with, neither.

And then I looked up an' down the road an' seen there was no dust comin' an' we wouldn't be interrupted, an' I went up to the old skunk an' I says, 'I got a bill to colleck off you.