While the Billy Boils

“Well, I think I'll move on. Would I stand any show for some tucker?”
“Him! He wouldn't give a dog a crust, and like as not he'd get you run in for trespass if he caught you camping on the run. But come along to the store and I'll give you enough tucker to carry you on.”
He patronized literature and arts, too, though in an awkward, furtive way. 

 

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