Let's go over to the billiard room and have a bottle of sass'parilla and a five-cent cigar, just to break the ice.' "But that only made him mad.
"'You talk like a fish,' he says.

'I mean it.

Why can't we go?
It's September, the Old Home House is shut up for the season, you and me's done well--fur's profits are concerned--and we ought to have a change, anyway.

We've got to stay here in Orham all winter.' "'Have you figgered out how much it's goin' to cost ?' I asked him.
"Yes, he had.

'It won't be so awful expensive,' he says.