His affluence was surpassed by no man.

To make Capons […] [S]ome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones [i.e., testes] of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done; […]

William M. Breakenridge was one of the thousand or more professional gunhandlers on the frontier.

Johnny runs out of the theatre and hitchhikes to Ossining niggertown.