"What, do you earn anything by starving, then?
By Jove, that's a quaint idea." "I earn all I get by starvin'.

My name's Cann--Matty Cann, but I'm known professionally as Bony-part.

Ain't yeh seen me advertisements up the main street?
I'm drawed on a big poster outside Professer Thunder's Museum iv Marvels, I'm the livin' skelington." "He isn't ruining himself with your upkeep," Nickie.
"No." replied the Living Skeleton.

"I'm allowanced off an' I've got t' eat on'y what he gives me--that's in our contrac'.

If I eat more an put on flesh out I go.