SEA-SIDE LODGINGS To set a dog barking is easier than to stop him by the soundest reasoning.

Even if the roof above his honest head, growing loose on its nails, is being mended, he comes out to ask about the matter, and in strong terms proclaims his opinion to the distance.
After this kind behaved the people about to be protected by this battery.

They had dreamed of no danger till they saw their houses beginning to be protected, and for this--though it added to their importance--they were not truly thankful.

They took it in various ways, according to their rich variety of reflection; but the way in which nobody took it was that of gratitude and humility.
"Everything upside down," they said, "everything gone clean topsy-turvy! And the deep meaning of it is to rob our fishing, under pretence of the Nationals.

It may bring a good bit of money to the place, for the lining of one or two pockets, such as John Prater's and Cheeseman's; but I never did hold so much with money, when shattery ways comes along of it.
No daughter of mine stirs out-of-doors after sundown, I can tell them." Thus were the minds of the men disturbed, or at any rate those of the elder ones; while the women, on the whole, were pleased, although they pretended to be contemptuous.