Now they make me feel so mean and poverty-struck that I expect to be took up for a tramp any minute.

Mister," to the clerk, "you run right along and wrap up that chain I was lookin' at.
Hurry! or I'll be ashamed to carry anything so cheap." "Think she'll like it, do you, Jim ?" he asked, when they were once more out of doors with the purchase in his inside pocket.
"She ought, certainly," replied Pearson.

"It's a beautiful thing." "Yes.

Well, you see," apologetically, "I wanted to give her somethin' pretty good.

'Bije always did, and I didn't want to fall too fur behind.
But," with a chuckle, "you needn't mention the price to anybody.