She gived me five dollars and then ask what else.

I look at her and say, 'Sam wants a spear or two of yer shinin' hair,' and Miss Mabel takes shears and cut a little curl.

I'se got 'em now.

I never spend the money," and from an old leathern wallet Sam drew a bill and a soft silken curl, which he laid across Adah's hand.
"Yes, that is like her hair," Adah said, gazing fondly upon the tiny lock which was Sam's greatest earthly treasure; then, returning it to him, she asked: "And where is that Sullivan ?" a chill creeping over her as she remembered how about four years ago the man she called her guardian was absent for some time, and came back to her with colored hair and whiskers.
"Oh, he gone long before, nobody know whar.

Sam b'lieves, though, he hear they tryin' to cotch him, but disremembers, got such mizzable memory." "You say he had a mark like mine ?" Adah continued.
"Yes, berry much, but more so.