All old men are, I think," he said, appealing to me.

"The time's coming, ye see, when the gift o' speech will be gone from me.

It's a great gift.

But happen we won't lose it after all." I said, "No, that I thought not; that I thought on the other side of the grave we should both speak and hear of higher things than we did in the flesh." "Happen so," said he; "I think so too, sometime.

I'll give ye my yarn; I have told it often.