This is the last coffee I've got.

I've been saving it since Christmas, but I made it for him because he seems more down than usual to-night." Then a nervous spasm shook her thin figure, and she added in a fierce whisper: "He's sick, that's the matter with him.

He ain't sick enough to be in a government hospital, but he'd be better off if he was.

Even when he gets work he ain't able to stick to it.

The folks that hire him don't have any patience.