I was better lookin' them days 'n I be now--had more hair at any rate--though," he remarked with a grin, "I was alwus a better goer than I was a looker.

I was doin' fairly well," he continued, "but mebbe not so well as was thought by some.
"Wa'al, she was a good-lookin' woman, some older 'n I was.

She seemed to take some shine to me.

I'd roughed it putty much alwus, an' she was putty clever to me.

She was a good talker, liked a joke an' a laugh, an' had some education, an' it come about that I got to beauin' her 'round quite a consid'able, and used to go an' set in her room or the parlor with her sometimes evenin's an' all that, an' I wouldn't deny that I liked it putty well." It was some minutes before Mr.Harum resumed his narrative.