Now, if it ain't a sassy question, how did you make yours ?' "Well, he made his by bein' shrewd and careful and always lookin' out for number one.

'Number one' was his hobby.

I gathered that the heft of his spare change had come from dickers in stocks and bonds.
"'Humph!' says I.'Well, speakin' of tricks and meanness, I've allers heard tell that there was some of them things hitched to the tail of the stock market.

What makes the stock market price of--well, of wheat, we'll say ?' "That was regulated, so he said, by the law of supply and demand.

If a feller had all the wheat there was and another chap had to have some or starve, why, the first one had a right to gouge t'other chap's last cent away from him afore he let it go.
"'That's legitimate,' he says.