Shore, he can't he'p it; he's a born kleptomaniac.

Leastwise 'kleptomaniac' is what Colonel Sterett calls it when he's tellin' me of a party who's afflicted sim'lar.
"'Otherwise this gent's a heap respectable,' says the Colonel.

'Morally speakin' thar's plenty who's worse.

Of course, seein' he's crowdin' forty years, he ain't so shamefully innocent neither.

He ain't no debyootanty; still, he ain't no crime-wrung debauchee.