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So ye see he was a natural bor-rn fi-nanceer. An' he begun to luk around him f'r what th' pa-apers calls a 'financee. "He didn't have far to go. I dinnaw how he done it, whether th' Ganderbilks asked him 'r he asked th' Ganderbilks. Annyhow, 'twas arranged. 'Twas horse an' horse between thim. Th' Ganderbilks had money, an' he was a jook. They was wan divorce on each side.
She was a comely, bustling, cheerful little woman of about forty-five, with a playful spirit like that of Socrates himself. "This is my financee," said Socrates. "She has waited for me twenty-five years." "And he kept me waiting the wretch! just because my grandfather left me his money," said Miss Betsey. "I shall never forgive that man," said Socrates, as he shook his fist at the portrait.
Afther awhile his daughter, the jook's financee, come along; an', seein' the jook, says she, 'Pappa, she says, 'inthrojooce me to ye'er frind. 'Jook, says Ganderbilk, 'shake hands with me daughther. She's your's, he says. An' so they were marrid. "Well, Jawn," said Mr.
"But, instead of paying the thousand into the bank, he went to gambling with it in the hope of trebling or quadrupling it and lost it. In other words, he's been afraid to tell his financée how much he really owed the bank and then played the thousand to win enough to enable him to square himself." "Once more," observed the Atlanta man, "you speak in mouthfuls."
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