A little later I see him down at the end of the sand spit starin' out into the fog; lookin' for a sail, I presume likely.
"I finished my breakfast and washed up the dishes.

He come in by and by.
He hadn't had no dinner nor supper, you see, and the salt air gives most folks an almighty appetite.
"'Say,' he says, 'I've been thinkin'.

It's usual in the stock and provision market to deal on a margin.

Suppose I pay you a one per cent margin now and--' "'All right,' says I, cheerful.

'Then I'll give you a slip of paper sayin' that you've bought such and such slices of pork and hunks of johnnycake and I'm carryin' 'em for you on a margin.