We took care of that when we bought them.

Nobody ever saw us on bad ones since we were boys, and we had broken them in to stand and be caught day or night, and to let us jump on and off at a moment's notice.
All that day, being awful hot and close, we stayed in the house and yarned away with mother and Aileen till they thought--poor souls--that we had turned over a new leaf and were going to stay at home and be good boys for the future.

When a man sees how little it takes to make women happy--them that's good and never thinks of anything but doing their best for everybody belonging to 'em--it's wonderful how men ever make up their minds to go wrong and bring all that loves them to shame and grief.

When they've got nobody but themselves to think of it don't so much matter as I know of; but to keep on breaking the hearts of those as never did you anything but good, and wouldn't if they lived for a hundred years, is cowardly and unmanly any way you look at it.

And yet we'd done very little else ourselves these years and years.
We all sat up till nigh on to midnight with our hands in one another's--Jim down at mother's feet; Aileen and I close beside them on the old seat in the verandah that father made such a time ago.