Sounds kind of irreverent.

Well, me and old Pat was pretty friendly, in a way, though he did owe me rent.

When he was sick with the pleurisy he sends for me and he says, "Cap'n 'Wixon," says he, "you're pretty close with the money," he says--he was kind of out of his head at the time and liable to say foolish things--"you're pretty close," he says, "but you're a man of your word.

My boy Jimmie, that run away, was the apple of my eye."' "'That's what he said about his girl Maggie that was took up for stealin' Mrs.Elkanah Higgins's spoons,' I says.

'He had a healthy crop of apples in HIS orchard.' "'S-sh-h! DON'T talk so! I feel as if the old man's spirit was with us this minute.