"But, for cripes sake, go as easy as you can.

I'm plumb lame from my last fall!" The big man chuckled again.

"The law's merciful as, it can afford to be, and I've got a heart like an ox.

Got any jack on yuh ?" "I'm just about cleaned, and that's the Gawd's truth.

Have a heart, can't yuh?
A man's got t' live." "Slip me five hundred, anyway.