We almost made up our minds to keep straight and square to the last day of our lives.

However, the wind died down a bit next day, and we both felt a lot better--better in body and worse in mind--as often happens.

Before we got to Melbourne we could eat and drink, smoke and gamble, and were quite ourselves again.

We'd laid it out to have a reg'lar good month of it in town, takin' it easy, and stopping nice and quiet at a good hotel, havin' some reasonable pleasure.

Why shouldn't we see a little life?
We'd got the cash, and we'd earned that pretty hard.