Now in this case I'm the one and I've got to look out for myself.
This is my shanty, my island, and my grub.

So please keep your hands off that johnnycake.' "For a minute or so he set still and stared at me.

Didn't seem to sense the situation, as you might say.

Then the red biled up in his face and over his bald head like a Fundy tide.
"'Why, you dummed villain!' he shouts.

'Do you mean to starve me ?' "'You won't starve in a week,' says I, helpin' myself to pork.