"It isn't what it's cracked up to be.

We had the hardest work in getting money enough to get us back." As Luke did not mention the kind of hard work by which the money was obtained, I may state here that an evening's luck at the faro table had supplied them with money enough to pay the fare to Boston by railway; otherwise another year might have found them still in St.
Louis.
"Hard work doesn't suit your constitution, does it ?" said Ferguson, slyly.
"I can work as well as anybody," said Luke; "but I haven't had the luck of some people." "You were lucky enough to have your fare paid to the West for you." "Yes, and when we got there, the rascal left us to shift for ourselves.

That aint much luck." "I've always had to shift for myself, and always expect to," was the reply.
"Oh, you're a model!" sneered Clapp.

"You always were as sober and steady as a deacon.

I wonder they didn't make you one." "And Walton there is one of the same sort," said Luke.