I ain't kickin' at your givin' me tit for tat, or tryin' to.

Turn about's fair play, if you can call the turn.

But it's against my principles to allow anybody to beat me on a business deal.

Do you suppose,' he says, 'that I'd have paid your robber's prices without a word if I hadn't had somethin' up my sleeve?
Why, man,' says he, 'I gave you my CHECKS, not cash.

And I've just telephoned to the Wellmouth Bank to stop payment on those checks.