" I'll take a hame string to you, " I says.

“我会拿一根火腿绳给你， ” 我说。

Haggling over a twenty cent hame string to save fifteen cents, so they can give it to a bunch of Yankees that come in and pay maybe ten dollars for the privilege.

讨价还价 20 分火腿串以节省 15 分， 这样他们就可以把它送给一群进基队， 他们可能需要支付 10 元才能获得特权。