“Oh, so that’s the way ye talk! I s’pose you think you’re runnin’ the road now?”
“Nothing of the sort. I think I am attending to my business, and that’s all. It’s plain you do not like me.”
“No.”
“Well, I can’t help that.”
“You think you’re too smart.”
“How do you know?”
“Oh, you’ve got the swelled head. Poke in more coal there.”
Frank soon found that he was forced to work quite as hard as he had done when he started out with old Joe, and he was not at all satisfied.
“See here,” he finally said, “what are you trying to do? Have you started in to knock me on this trip?”
“No; but this engine takes a heap of coal.”