I used to clean them myself, but I'm getting rather old, you see.

Ain't I now ?' `I can't tell,' I answered.

`You see I never saw you when you were younger.' `Never saw the man in the moon ?' said he.

`Not very near,' I answered, `not to tell how young or how old he looked.

I have seen the bundle of sticks on his back.' For Jim had pointed that out to me.