But folks air so tenacious like, they must have every stick and stone respected that they reckon theirs." "We shouldn't hear ye talking in this _pheelosophical_ way," said Miss Christie, "if yere new potatoes had been stolen last night, before ye got them to the show." Laura took a glance at the gardener, as, with all the ease of intimacy, he leaned in at the window and gave his opinion on things in general.

He was hale, and looked about sixty years of age.

He was dressed in his Sunday suit, and wore an orange bandana handkerchief loosely tied round his neck.

He had keen grey eyes.

Joseph's eyes were dark and large, and Joseph was taller, and had a straighter nose.
"Swan's quite right," remarked Valentine; "we are a great deal too tenacious about our belongings.