Asaph Tidditt was a regular sojourner at the store.

Bailey Bangs, happening in to purchase fifty cents' worth of sugar or to have the molasses jug filled, lingered occasionally, but not often.

Captain Cy explained Bailey's absence in characteristic fashion.
"Variety," observed the captain, "is the spice of life.

Bailey gets talk enough to home.

What's the use of his comin' up here to get more ?" "Oh, I don't know," said Josiah Dimick, with a grin, "we let him do some of the talkin' himself up here.