“Oh, there’ll be plenty of work for you, I dare say, by and by when the company’s formed.”
“And how about my chum here?”
“He shall have an interest, too.”
“By shinger!” interrupted Meyer Dinkelspeil from the background, where he had been an interested listener and observer of the proceedings, “vhere don’t I come in in dose deals? Off Yack und Sharley pulled you togedder wit der battery, I put someding better as dot in your stomyack.”
“Haw, haw, haw!” roared the man from the West as he looked at the full-moon countenance of the German boy.
“Haw, haw, haw, yourseluf!” snorted Meyer indignantly. “I don’t see nottings funny in dot. Vot’s der madder mit you, any vay?”
“Would you like to rough it out in the mines, Meyer?” asked Jack, with a wink at his chum.
“Off dere vos plenty off moneys in dot I rough it yust as well as der next fellow, I ped you.”
“Why, they wouldn’t do a thing to you out there,” grinned Charlie.
“Is dot so?” retorted Meyer, incredulously. “Don’d you dink dot I took care off mineseluf yust so well as you or Yack?”