He would also sell me his late father's old sermons for a good sum! This reminded me of Sydney Smith's remark to an old lady who was sorely afflicted with insomnia: "Have you ever tried one of my sermons ?" Perhaps I have said enough to prove that life in a bucolic solitude may be something more varied than is generally--don't let that old peddler come into the house, say we want nothing, and then tell the ladies I'll be down directly--and, O Ellen, call Tom! Those ducks are devouring his new cabbage-plants and one of the calves has got over the stone wall and--what?
"He's gone to Dog Corner for the cow-doctor." -- Yes, more varied than is generally supposed!.