'And you say Oakum is with 'em, ha?'
'Why yes, Oakum's boy is with 'em, and you know it must be the old man that does it; the boy aint got nothin'.'
'No, nor the old one neither, when his debts is paid; but I'll see, I'll see. Folks musn't git in debt to me, and then come out agin' me; that won't do, Bill Tice.'
'I shouldn't think it would.'
'And you say Oakum is goin' to build a boat for his boy?'
'That's what Dick Cutter tell'd me.'
'To carry away everything we've got here, and make things so high, poor folks must starve or else work hard, one or the two.'
'They don't care.'
'I tell you what, Bill, you and I know one another; you've done some little jobs for me, and may be I've done some little things for you.'
'Yes, I know that.'