troat's

Updated: April 30, 2025

I wish I had seen you an hour ago. I 've been playing 'the bank, and they 've cleaned me flat. They say that's the squarest game on earth, but the cards do run dead wrong for me. Where you going to eat? Well, say, as the tramp says, 'Me stomach tinks me troat's cut. Back me against a supper, will you? It's a hundred to one I get the best of it."

Henry M. Blossom - Checkers: A Hard-luck Story