He drank but little whiskey, and but rarely chewed tobacco, and was therefore more free from that plague spot of spitting which rendered male colloquy so difficult to endure.

He worked for us frequently, and often used to walk into the drawing-room and seat himself on the sofa, and tell me all his plans.

He made an engagement with the proprietor of the wooded hill before mentioned, by which half the wood he could fell was to be his own.

His unwearied industry made this a profitable bargain, and from the proceeds he purchased the materials for building a comfortable frame (or wooden) house; he did the work almost entirely himself.

He then got a job for cutting rails, and, as he could cut twice as many in a day as any other man in the neighbourhood, he made a good thing of it.