The kettle's boiling, the dime's sticking fast

Despite the hole i' the pocket. Call such facts

Fancies, too petty a work for Providence,

And those same thanks which you exact from me

Prove too prodigious payment: thanks for what,

If nothing guards and guides us little men?

No, no, sir! You must put away your pride,

Resolve to let Sludge into partnership!

I live by signs and omens: looked at the roof

Where the pigeons settle—"If the further bird,