"If you've got plenty, I don't care if I do have another piece of that bread."
"Can't you earn enough to keep you in food?" and the man gave to the boy a most appetising sandwich.
"Say, that's a dandy! It's half meat, too! Them you get down-town don't have more'n the shadow of a ham bone inside the bread! Course I make enough to buy food; but you don't think I'm blowin' it all in jest for a spread, eh?"
"Runnin' a bank?"
"Well, it's kind'er like that; I'm puttin' it all away, so's to go down to Cuby an' look after the old man. He allers did need me, an' I can't see how he's been gettin' along alone."
"Where's your mother?"
"Died when I was a kid. Dad an' me boomed things in great shape till he got set on goin' to war, an' that broke it all up."
"Did he leave you behind to run wild?"
