“We’re bound to give you a lift, old man, so don’t say anything more about it. If you was the only feller in this city what had passed a lead nickel, perhaps this thing would look different to me; but the way I reckon it is, that the man what put the advertisement in the paper jest ’cause he’d been done out’er five cents is a mighty poor citizen, an’ I stand ready to do all I can towards keepin’ you away from him.”