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They ain't no man ever throw'd a kak on Ace of Spades but me, an' as fer sellin' him, or tradin' him I'll shoot him first!" A sudden commotion at the back of the room caused both men to turn toward the wheel where a fierce altercation had arisen between the croupier and the vagabond to whom the Texan had tossed his last coin. "You'll take that er nothin'! It's more money'n y'ever see before an' "
"Dat's de mansion ob Cun'l Hickman, my ole mars'r," replied Cuffy. "He owns all de land 'bout here, mor'n tousand acres. He let me live on dis corner when he want me to run de ferry, and I stops here eber since." "Then he must be very rich." "Rich! Dat ain't no name for't. He's got more money'n de Bank ob London, 'n I reckon he could buy out de State of Kaintuck. He's pow'ful rich, Mars'r."
Because Sary was the smallest of the lot he pressed the dollar into her shrinking, amazed palm. "Paw's got more money'n that," Sybilly announced proudly. "Paw's got a million dollars. A man bought our ranch and gave him a lot of money. We're rich now. Maybe paw'll buy us a phony-graft. He said maybe he would. And maw's goin' to have a blue silk dress with green onto it. And "
That's what I said then and I b'lieve it yet. Wouldn't you feel the same way? "I said sure thing I would. I'd found out that the best way to keep Effie's talk shop runnin' was to agree with her. And I liked to hear her talk. "'Yup, she went on, 'I give right in then. I'd traveled same as the fortune teller said, and I'd got more money'n I ever expected to see, let alone own.
The perfessor, he's so full of scientifics he don't know nothing with no sense to it, Biddy says. He's got more money'n you can shake a stick at, and he don't have to do no work, nor never has, and his scientifics gets worse and worse every year.
"You sho'ly don't mean it comes to sixteen dollars ev'y week," said the woman, taking the cob pipe out for the first time, long enough to spit and wipe her mouth on the back of her hand, "an' all in silver an' all our'n?" she asked. "Why that thar is mo' money'n we've seed this year. What do you say to tryin' it, Josiah?" Josiah was willing.
She bit each dollar to test it, remarking finally: "Why, hit's genuwine!" Jack laughed. "Why, hit's mo' money'n I've seed fur years," she said "I won't hafter hunt fur 'sang roots to-morrow." "Jack," said the Bishop, after the others had retired, and the two men sat in Captain Tom's cabin "Jack, I've been thinkin' an' thinkin' I must make some money." "How much?" asked Jack. "A thousand or two."
Build a big house, says he, 'an' take yer time for't, an' when ye git ready for company, let a feller know. I tell ye, it made my eyes stick out to think on't. 'Jim Fenton's hotel! says I. 'I don't b'lieve I can swing it. 'If ye want any more money'n ye've got, says he, 'call on me." The idea of a hotel, with all its intrusions upon his privacy and all its diversions, was not pleasant to Mr.