Who ever seed a yeller-hided Mexikin with them eyes and ha'r?
Jack, this hyur's Cap'n Haller.

If yur kin iver save his life by givin' yur own, yur must do it, de ye hear ?" "I will," said the boy resolutely.
"Come, Lincoln," I interposed, "these conditions are not necessary.

You remember I was in your debt." "Ain't worth mentioning Cap; let bygones be bygones!" "But what brought you to New Orleans?
or, more particularly, how came you into this scrape ?" "Wal, Cap'n, bein' as the last question is the most partickler, I'll gin yur the answer to it fust.

I hed jest twelve dollars in my pouch, an' I tuk a idee inter my head thet I mout as well double it.

So I stepped into a shanty whar they wur a-playin' craps.