“Why didn’t you turn ’em into m-m-money, then?”
“The faster I manufactured ’em the faster I went busted,” says Silas, “so I jest up and quit.”
“Who do you owe m-money to besides Pa?” Mark wanted to know.
“Not many. You see I kep’ usin’ the money I borrowed off him to pay other folks.”
“That’s a help, anyhow,” Mark says. “How many logs do you use a d-day?”
“Some days more, some days less.”
“Got any orders on h-hand? For drumsticks and dumb-bells and s-s-sich?”
“Not to speak of,” says Silas.
“That’s good, too,” says Mark. “It lets us take a f-f-fresh start. Who you been sellin’ to?”
Silas told him the names of several concerns, and Mark wrote them down in a little book.