H. Certainly; some of the hotels charge four and five.
J. How do they expect a feller can eat three dollars’ worth of victuals in a day?
H. You’d better leave there at once. I’ll give you the address of a place where you can get boarded for six dollars a week, while you’ll be earning twelve.
J. We kin git board up to Beanville for two dollars a week.
H. Beanville and Boston are two different places, and differ greatly in some important respects. If you will wait here a few moments, I’ll go out and speak to my friend about this place that you want.
(Exit R.)
J. (solus). Well, I wouldn’t ’a’ thought that Jenkins was such a tricky feller. I’d like to jist git hold of him once, and ef I wouldn’t give him a kick that would land him in the middle of next week, it’s because I’d lost the use of my foot, that’s all.
(Curtain falls.)