human
Listen, I said, half strangled,
gpt
You betcher! When you have went there an' have saw the goods, just let me have mine if they're up to sample. Is that right?
human
It seems perfectly fair.
gpt
It is fair. I wouldn't try to do a scientific guy--no, sir. Me without no eddycation, only brains? Fat chance I'd have to put one over on a Academy sport what's chuck-a-block with Latin an' Greek an' scientific stuff an' all like that!
human
Is it a go?
gpt
Where is the map?
human
Ha--ha! he said.
gpt
Listen to my mirth! The map is inside here, old sport!
human
I see, said I, trying to speak carelessly;
gpt
I don't desire to but I gotta go with you.
human
An accurate map--
gpt
Can it, old sport! A accurate map is all right when it's pasted over the front of your head for a face. But I wear the other kind of map _inside_ me conk. Get me?
human
I confess that I do not.
gpt
Well, get _this_, then. It's a cash deal. If the goods is up to sample you hand me mine then an' there. I don't deliver no goods f.o.b. I shows 'em to you. After you have saw them it's up to you to round 'em up. That's all, as they say when our great President pulls a gun. There ain't goin' to be no shootin'; walk out quietly, ladies!
human
You are, admittedly, unlettered; you are confessedly a chevalier of industry; personally you are exceedingly distasteful to me. But it is useless to deny that you are the most extraordinary man I ever saw.... How soon can you take me to these Coquina hills?
gpt
Gimme twenty-four hours to--fix things,
human
Is that all?
gpt
It's plenty, I guess. An'--say!
human
What?
gpt
It's a stric'ly cash deal. Get me?
human
I shall have with me a certified check for ten thousand dollars. Also a pair of automatics.
gpt
Huh! he said,
human
I could loco your cabbage-palm soup if I was _that_ kind! I'm on the level, Perfessor. If I wasn't I could get you in about a hundred styles while you was blinkin' at what you was a-thinkin' about. But I ain't no gun-man. You hadn't oughta pull that stuff on me. I've give you your chanst; take it or leave it.
gpt
It's a bargain, I said firmly.
human
What is your name?
gpt
Sam Mink. Write it Samuel onto that there certyfied check--if you can spare the extra seconds from your valooble time.