Although I've known the absent-minded, careless critter to have over two hundred knockin' around among his tools and chips and glue pots.

Probably he had some to start with, and he got the rest by gettin' folks around town and over to Harniss to cash his checks.

Anthony Hammond over there asked me a little while ago, when I met him down to the wharf, if I thought Shavin's Winslow was good for a hundred and twenty-five.

Said Jed had sent over by the telephone man's auto and asked him to cash a check for that much.

Hammond said he thought 'twas queer he hadn't cashed it at our bank; that's why he asked me about it." "Humph! But why should he give his own money away in that fashion?
And confess to stealing and all that stuff?
I never heard of such a thing." "Neither did anybody else.