"I'll swim out: I'm strong on baths—though perhaps I don't look it! Have another drink?"
"What we want now is a straight tip—and you had better give it."
"It's on the south fork of the north branch."
"The north branch of what?"
"I ain't tellin'."
"By God, you'd better! We ain't going to stand for more foolin'."
"You are all what I say you are—the scum of the earth."
"All right! We're anything you like: but let us have the news."
"It's the south fork of the north branch of the south fork——"
"What are you quitting for? why don't you spit it out of you?"