I know 't you ben makin' your brags that you'd fix me in this deal.

You allowed that you'd set up usury in the fust place, an' if that didn't work I'd find you was execution proof anyways.

That's so, ain't it ?" "That's about the size on't," said Montaig, putting his feet a little farther apart.

David had risen from his chair.
"You didn't talk that way," proceeded the latter, "when you come whinin' 'round here to git that money in the fust place, an' as I reckon some o' the facts in the case has slipped out o' your mind since that time, I guess I'd better jog your mem'ry a little." It was plain from the expression of Mr.Montaig's countenance that his confidence in the strength of his position was not quite so assured as at first, but he maintained his attitude as well as in him lay.
"In the fust place," David began his assault, "_I_ didn't _lend_ ye the money.

I borr'ed it for ye on my indorsement, an' charged ye fer doin' it, as I told ye at the time; an' another thing that you appear to forgit is that you signed a paper statin' that you was wuth, in good and available pusson'ls, free an' clear, over five hunderd dollars, an' that the statement was made to me with the view of havin' me indorse your note fer one-fifty.