I've lived here as if I had no more fire in me than old Gammon snoring on his pillow up aloft; and who kept me to it?
Did you see I never touched liquor?
What did you guess from that ?--that I was a mild sort of fellow?
So I am: but I haven't got that reputation in other parts.

Your father 'd like me to marry you, and I'm ready.

Who kept me to work, so that I might learn to farm, and be a man, and be able to take a wife?
I came here--I'll tell you how.

I was a useless dog.

I ran from home and served as a trooper.