The mackerel struck in and we done well, unusual well.
At the end of the season, not countin' what we'd spent for livin' and expenses, we had a balance owin' us at our fish dealer's up to Boston of five hundred dollars--two fifty apiece.

My partner was goin' to be married in the spring and was cal'latin' to use his share to buy furniture for the new house with.

So we decided we'd take a trip up to Boston and collect the money, stick it into some savin's bank where 'twould draw interest until spring and then haul it out and use it.
'Twas about every cent we had in the world.
"'So to Boston we went, collected our money, got the address of a safe bank and started out to find it.

But on the way my partner's hat blowed off and the bank address, which was on a slip of paper inside of it, got lost.

So we see a sign on a buildin', along with a lot of others, that kind of suggested bankin', and so we stepped into the buildin' and went upstairs to ask the way again.
"'The place wa'n't very big, but 'twas fixed up fancy and there was a kind of blackboard along the end of the room where a boy was markin' up figgers in chalk.