Mother laughed.
"Mammy," he asked bending toward her, "am I clean ?" "You goose!" she said, putting her arms around him and holding him tight.
"Gander love," said Laddie, turning up his face for a kiss.

"Honest mother, you have been through nigh unto forty years of it, tell me, can a man be a farmer and keep neat enough not to be repulsive to a refined woman ?" "Your father is the answer," said mother.

"All of you know how perfectly repulsive he is and always has been to me." "'Repulsive,"' said father.

"That's an ugly word!" "There are a whole lot of unpleasant things that peep around corners occasionally," said Laddie.

"But whoever of you dear people it was that showed Mr.Pryor the Crest of Eastbrooke, brought out this particular dragon for me to slay." "Tut, tut! Now what does that mean ?" said father.