"Another lot o' fools com'd to look for Mr.Kidd's money," she continued, without waiting for a reply.

"Seems as if all the folks atween this and Yonkers had got crazy about Mr.Kidd, and was a comin' up here to dig for his money." The men confessed that she was right in regard to their mission, and begged that she would get them some breakfast, for which they would pay her liberally.
"Yes!" rejoined the woman, angrily, "I know'd what you'd cum fur.

Thar ain't nothin' in this house to get breakfast on--nothin' fur my poor old man and the two little children.

Work's hard to get up here.

And them fools what comes up here to dig for Mr.Kidd's money eat up what little we had, and did'nt pay fur it, nither.