"I want to give you the opportunity to have some sense."
"Well, now, Lije, it's mighty kind of you to be givin' out that sort of artickle. Puts me in mind of the old feller that give away his shirts when he didn't have none to spare."
"Good natchul talk, Starbuck—natchul as the squawk of a duck. But I didn't come here to swop the perlitenesses of the season."
"You know I have been out of the neighborhood an' ain't had a chance to talk business until lately."
"That's so."
"And you ought to know what that business is."
"Yes, I know."
"Even if a man is gittin' old, Starbuck, thar ain't no reason why he should be a fool."
"That's a fact, Lije."