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"How much kin sich a couple as I been talkin' about live on?" "When I married, forty-odd year ago, I was gittin' a dollar a day. Me 'n' Ma we done fine and saved money. Livin's higher now. Calc'late it 'u'd take nigh a dollar 'n' a half to git on comfortable." "Figger fifty dollars a month 'u'd do it? Think that 'u'd be enough?" "Scattergood, you listen here to me.
We wasn't very tickled before, thinkin' all our free livin's an' doin's was to be interfered with, but we are now. Three cheers for the company an' the treat they've give us, more especial for the Little One, and Long may she wave! Hip, hip, hurrar!" The cheer was given with a will, and then again came the Captain's order: "Fall into line. Right about face. March! hep, hep, hep hep!"
"Ye needn't make sich a fuss about the matter," and Mrs. McKrigger bristled up a bit. "It's a purty serious thing when yer whole livin's in the fryin'-pan." "Livin', livin'! Where does yer livin' come from anyway, Mrs. McKrigger? Doesn't the Lord send it? I reckon He'll look after us. Didn't He tend to old 'Lijah when he done his duty. Didn't the ravens feed 'im?
But you've got to keep your belly to the ground like a snake when you start anything on that feller, and you've got to make sure you've got him dead to rights. He's quick with a gun, and he's sure." "Five hundred?" suggested Mark, with a crafty sidelong look. "You've named it." "And something down for expenses; a feller's got to live, and livin's high." Chadron drew out his wallet.
We pasted on the Chill Cure labels about half an hour and Buck says: "Making an honest livin's better than that Wall Street, anyhow; ain't it, Pick?" "You bet," says I. I never got inside of the legitimate line of graft but once. But, one time, as I say, I reversed the decision of the revised statutes and undertook a thing that I'd have to apologize for even under the New Jersey trust laws.
"It's like makin' money, I guess suthin' extry, thrown in, good enough if you get it, but not necessary no, not necessary. Livin's the thing to live for, I reckon." He stopped suddenly, as if there were no more to be said. The artist looked at him curiously. "That's what all the great artists have said," he commented. Uncle William nodded. "Like enough. I ain't an artist.
'Very like a'st not see tha again, Davie. We niver know, Livin's hard soomtimes soa's deein, folks say. I'm often freet'nt of deein' but I should na be. Theer's noan so mich peace here, and we knaw that wi' the Lord theer's peace. He gave a long sigh all his character was in it so tortured was it and hesitating.
It was a hard time and a lonesome time for me, Mary. The summer's awful over there, and livin's bad and dear. You couldn't have any idea of it, Mary." "No, Alf." "I didn't come back so well off as I expected." "But that doesn't matter, Alf." "I got heart-sick and tired of it, and couldn't stand it any longer, Mary." "But that's all over now, Alf; you mustn't think of it."
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