(Bitterly)
Give 'em your apples and expect the core.
Silas Maury.
It came so quick, though, Bill; he didn't think.
Bill Patten.
If he had just kept still and called to Chris
And had him help and roll the log aside
And then at night let some of us men know,
We could have slipped it out and hidden it,
And gone to Egerton and said, 'See here,
We've found the log that you've been lookin' for
These years and haven't found it——'
Cap Saunders.
You don't mean——
Bill Patten.
'And if you'll do the square thing we'll cough up;
If not, we'll go and find the mine ourselves.'