JOHN
I'm on my beam ends. I don't know if that is funny.
LIZA
You're as down in your luck as ever you can be, and you go keeping a thing like that for luck. Why, you couldn't be funnier.
JOHN
Well, what would you do?
LIZA
Why, I 'ad a mascot once, all real gold; and I had rotten luck. Rotten luck I had. Rotten.
JOHN
And what did you do?