it seems that this yere cut-purse o ' my acquaintance - enterprisin ' young feller with a real shorp knife - he slit open the purse o ' this yere fat dacite merchant , an ' a hull fistful o ' coins come slitherin ' out , an ' mixt in with them there silver an ' brass coins they wuz this yere message , which it wuz ez hed bin passt onta him by one o ' his feller-conspiracy-ers . '