It was a fair go on the Road, an' if I beat 'im an' the others, it was because I was a better man at the game.

I spent nearly all my money in that little shanty where I started, an' 'im an' the others looked on an' 'oped I'd starve.

Yer talk about me bein' cruel an' callous.

It's the game that's cruel, not me.

I knocked 'im out all right, but wot 'ud be the use of knockin' 'im down with one 'and an' pickin' 'im up with the other ?" "You say yourself that he took you off the streets, and gave you a living." "So 'e did, but 'e got 'is money's worth out of me.