He'd sooner make a ten-dollar note on a hoss trade than a hunderd right here 'n this office.

Many's the time right in bus'nis hours, when I've wanted to ask him how he wanted somethin' done, he'd be busy talkin' hoss, an' wouldn't pay no attention to me more'n 's if I wa'n't there." "I am glad to feel," said John, "that you can not possibly have any unpleasant feeling toward me, seeing that you resigned as you did." "Cert'nly not, cert'nly not," declared Timson, a little uneasily.

"If it hadn't 'a' ben you, it would 'a' had to ben somebody else, an' now I seen you an' had a talk with you--Wa'al, I guess I better git back into the other room.

Dave's liable to come in any minute.

But," he said in parting, "I will give ye piece of advice: You keep enough laid by to pay your gettin' back to N'York.