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'My name 's Schwartz Thier, and so 's my nature! said the fellow with a grin; 'but may I never smack lips with a pretty girl again, if I harm such a young beauty as this! Friendly dealing's my plan o' life. 'Clear out of my house, then, fellow, and here's money for you, said Gottlieb, displaying a wrathfully-trembling handful of coin. 'Pish! money! forty times that wouldn't cover my bet!

'T was in those days an honest grace would hold Till an hot pudding grew at heart a-cold, And men had better stomachs for religion, Than now for capon, turkey-cock, or pigeon; When honest sisters met to pray, not prate, About their own and not their neighbors' state, During Plain Dealing's reign, that worthy stud Of the ancient planter-race before the Flood.

'My name 's Schwartz Thier, and so 's my nature! said the fellow with a grin; 'but may I never smack lips with a pretty girl again, if I harm such a young beauty as this! Friendly dealing's my plan o' life. 'Clear out of my house, then, fellow, and here's money for you, said Gottlieb, displaying a wrathfully-trembling handful of coin. 'Pish! money! forty times that wouldn't cover my bet!

'T was in those days an honest grace would hold Till an hot pudding grew at heart a-cold, And men had better stomachs for religion, Than now for capon, turkey-cock, or pigeon; When honest sisters met to pray, not prate, About their own and not their neighbors' state, During Plain Dealing's reign, that worthy stud Of the ancient planter-race before the Flood.