Guess I'll pass.

Hog saw it first; he can have it." Hodges's face flushed, then he joined in the laugh.

The Chicago man was too valuable a would-be subscriber to quarrel with.

And, then, how impossible to expect a person brought up as Mason had been to understand the ordinary refinements of civilization.
"Rough diamond, Mason--Good fellow.

Backbone of our country," Hodges whispered to the Colonel, who was sore from the strain of repressed hilarity.