Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

"We ain't got as much in the bank as you think," he confessed.
"Bert had to be buried, you know, an I coughed up what the others
couldn't raise."

"How much was it?"

"Forty dollars. I was goin' to stand off the butcher an' the rest
for a while. They knew I was good pay. But they put it to me
straight. They'd been carryin' the shopmen right along an was up
against it themselves. An' now with that strike smashed they're
pretty much smashed themselves. So I took it all out of the bank.
I knew you wouldn't mind. You don't, do you?"