“You’re too smart for this work.” “I could say as much to you, cat-grabber, purse-nipper. Prank. Do you deny tripping the one and abusing the other with a knife?” “Not a big knife.” “Why do it?” “Cat’s blind. It wasn’t sporting.” “Heh. Sporting. There’s a word you normally only hear out of rich mouths. You rich, cat-pincher?” “Do I look it?” “You look worn and dirty, I grant, but hardly run before the boar. Your split-toed thieving boots are decently made, and that is not a poor man’s blade on your belt.” “Then I am rich. I have a hundred gold lions and a thousand silver owlets waiting on my
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