But I must drink.

Come, boys--all that will--come up and wet down at my expense." California Joe and most of the others joined in the invitation, and Captain Jack took a cigar rather than "lift a shingle from the roof," as he said.
"Where are you bound, Bill ?" asked Captain Jack, as Bill placed his empty glass on the counter, and turned around.
"To the Black Hills with your crowd--that is if I live to get there." "Live! You haven't any thought of dying, have you?
I never saw you look better." "Then I'll make a healthy-looking corpse, Jack.

For I tell you my time is nearly up; I've felt it in my bones this six months.

I've seen ghosts in my dreams, and felt as if they were around me when I was awake.

It's no use, Jack, when a chap's time comes he has got to go." "Nonsense, Bill; don't think of anything like that.