In the first place it seemed like a mean trick on the niggers.

Then I didn't much believe we could get away with it.
The more I looked him over the more I seen Doctor Kirby had changed considerable.

When I first knowed him he liked to hear himself talking and he liked to live free and easy and he liked to be running around the country and all them things, more'n he liked to be making money.
Of course, he wanted it; but that wasn't the ONLY thing he was into the Sagraw game fur.

If he had money, he was free with it and would help most any one out of a hole.

But he wasn't thinking it and talking it all the time then.
But now he was thinking money and dreaming money and talking of nothing but how to get it.