Klondike1960

Goldie:
Now tell me, Mr. Michael Halliday the Third, how you learned to play cards like that?

Michael Halliday:
I learned how to switch decks, fake cuts and deal seconds when I was eleven years old. Didn't do any good until I got in a game my daddy was in losin'. He's a fine engineer, but he couldn't tell a marked deck from a load of lumber.

Goldie:
What kind of engineer was he?

Michael Halliday:
Any kind. He could build a bridge or blow it up anywhere, and I went along - Siam, Japan, India, Mongolia, Tibet...

Goldie:
Miner? Engineer?

Michael Halliday:
Geologist and a fair country doctor. I can sew my own clothes, deliver a baby, speak five languages and call the faithful to prayer in three of 'em.