How do you find him ?" "I think I enjoy his conversation more than his sermons," admitted John with a smile.
"Less of it at times, ain't the' ?" suggested David.

"I may have told ye," he continued, "that I wa'n't a very reg'lar churchgoer, but I've ben more or less in my time, an' when I did listen to the sermon all through, it gen'ally seemed to me that if the preacher 'd put all the' really was in it together he wouldn't need to have took only 'bout quarter the time; but what with scorin' fer a start, an' laggin' on the back stretch, an' ev'ry now an' then breakin' to a stan'still, I gen'ally wanted to come down out o' the stand before the race was over.
The's a good many fast quarter hosses," remarked Mr.Harum, "but them that c'n keep it up fer a full mile is scurce.

What you goin' to do about the music bus'nis, or hain't ye made up your mind yet ?" he asked, changing the subject.
"I like Mr.Euston," said John, "and he seems very much in earnest about this matter; but I am not sure," he added thoughtfully, "that I can do what he wants, and I must say that I am very reluctant to undertake it; still, I don't know but that I ought to make the trial," and he looked up at David.
"I guess I would if I was you," said the latter.

"It can't do ye no harm, an' it may do ye some good.

The fact is," he continued, "that you ain't out o' danger of runnin' in a rut.