"I expect you had a stormy crossing, Mr Hesketh." "It was a bit choppy.

We had the fiddles on most of the time," Hesketh replied.

"Most of the time.

Now, how do you find the bicycle trade over here?
Languishing, as it is with us ?" "Oh, it keeps up pretty well," said Alec, "but we sell more spoons.

'N' what do you think of this country, far as you've seen it ?" "Oh, come now, it's a little soon to ask, isn't it?
Yes--I suppose bicycles go out of fashion, and spoons never do.