In this spirit he answered the Dean, while looking mischievously at the stranger.
"We can use him if he can ride." The stranger smiled understandingly.

"I don't see why I couldn't," he returned in that droll tone.

"I seem to have the legs." He looked down at his long lower limbs reflectively, as though quaintly considering them quite apart from himself.
Phil laughed.
"Huh," said the Dean, slightly mystified at the apparent understanding between the young men.

Then to the stranger: "What do you want to work for?
You don't look as though you needed to.

A sort of vacation, heh ?" There was spirit in the man's answer.