"If them damn' lizards had uh let yuh alone, I wouldn't have nothin' on m' mind now but my hat." He looked across the fire and grinned again.
"Keep on; you'll be tellin' me what the missus an' I was arguin' about last night over long-distance.

I've heard tell uh this four-bit mind reading an' forecastin' your horrorscope fer a dime; but I never met up with it before.

If you're aimin' to take up a collection after the show, you'll fare slim.

I've been what a feller called 'dusted off'." He added, after a pause that was eloquent, "They done it thorough!" Mack Nolan laughed.

"They usually are thorough, when they're 'dusting off a chump', as I believe they call it." Casey grunted.