I don't mean to say that I didn't spend the wuth of it foolishly times over an' agin, but I couldn't never make up my mind to put that amount o' money into that pertic'ler thing.

I was alwus figurin' that some day I'd have a silver tobacco box, an' I sometimes think the reason it seemed so extrav'gant, an' I put it off so long, was because I wanted it so much.

Now I s'pose you couldn't understand that, could ye ?" "Yes," said John, nodding his head thoughtfully, "I think I can understand it perfectly," and indeed it spoke pages of David's biography.
"Yes, sir," said David, "I never spent a small amount o' money but one other time an' got so much value, only I alwus ben kickin' myself to think I didn't do it sooner." "Perhaps," suggested John, "you enjoyed it all the more for waiting so long." "No," said David, "it wa'n't that--I dunno--'t was the feelin' 't I'd got there at last, I guess.

Fur's waitin' fer things is concerned, the' is such a thing as waitin' too long.

Your appetite 'll change mebbe.