He is never called upon to pay his score.

Good fellow! in addition he is popular, and every one asks him to drink: besides which, a tip for a race now and then makes this world wear a smiling aspect to him.
Dickon's 'unconscious education'-- absorbed rather than learnt in boyhood--had not been acquired under conditions likely to lead him to admire scenery.

But, rough as he was, he was a good-natured fellow, and it was through him that I became acquainted with a very beautiful place.
The footpath to The Park went for about half a mile under the shadow of elm trees, and in spring time there was a continual noise of young rooks in the nests above.

Occasionally dead twigs, either dislodged from the nests or broken off by the motions of the old birds, came rustling down.
One or two nests that had been blown out strewed the sward with half a bushel of dead sticks.

After the rookery the path passed a lonely dairy, where the polished brazen vessels in the skilling glittered like gold in the sunshine.