I was going to bone yuh for a lift, in case you were alone.

You _live_ here! Why, for cat's sake ?" "Gawd knows," said Johnny.

Then added impulsively, "I don't expect to go on living here always.

I'm going to beat it, soon as I get my airplane repaired, and--" He was on the point of saying, "when I learn to fly it." But pride and his experience with the Rolling R boys checked him in time.
The hobo looked hungrily at the "makin's" Johnny was pulling from the pocket of his shirt.

"At that you're lucky," he said.