"Dem Swizzle-Stick Smith he say same thing."
"It's so obvious."
"But he want me to let him hand dem Okky country over to England, so I say I pull his skin off if I catch him again. What you want for yo'self?"
"Do you mean what do I stand to make out of the deal? Well, not much beyond the satisfaction of keeping your crucifixion tree in a more sanitary state. With the mining right you have given me, I shall be a rich man."
"But if dem English took Okky country?"
"Why, they'd tax the mine, and they'd clap on regulations, till they made a very fine hole in the profits."
"Say dem again."
Carter explained more fully, and then for awhile the King of Okky sat and took snuff in silence.
Then, "O Carter," he asked, "dem King of England he got so many war-boys as me?"
Carter nodded.