"I've drawed wages from the Double-Crank for quite a spell, and I always aimed to act white with the outfit.

It's more than they're doing by me, but--I'll stay till Jim comes." He smoked moodily, and stared at his boots.

"Yuh ain't going back tonight, are yuh ?" The foreman said he must, and came back to the subject.

"Yuh don't want to think I'm firing yuh, Billy.

If it was my say-so, I'd tell the Pilgrim to go to hell.