Fur 's Mis' Cullom's matter was concerned, 't was as I said, jest payin' off an old score; an' as fur 's your stockin', it's really putty much the same.
I'll allow you've earned it, if it'll set any easier on your stomach." "I can't say that I have been overworked," said John with a slight laugh.
"Mebbe not," rejoined David, "but you hain't ben overpaid neither, an' I want ye to be satisfied.

Fact is," he continued, "my gettin' you up here was putty consid'able of an experiment, but I ben watchin' ye putty close, an' I'm more'n satisfied.

Mebbe Timson c'd beat ye at figurin' an' countin' money when you fust come, an' knowed more about the pertic'ler points of the office, but outside of that he was the biggist dumb-head I ever see, an' you know how he left things.

He hadn't no tack, fer one thing.

Outside of summin' up figures an' countin' money he had a faculty fer gettin' things t'other-end to that beat all.