"My father says the township would put down the bail three times over." "They swear by the Squire out there," said Mr Horace Williams, liberally applying his napkin to his moustache.

"He treated some of them more than square when the fall wheat failed three years running, about ten years back; do you remember, Mr Murchison?
Lent them money at about half the bank rate, and wasn't in an awful sweat about getting it in at that either." "And wasn't there something about his rebuilding the school-house at his own expense not so long ago ?" asked Dr Drummond.
"Just what he did.

I wanted to send Rawlins out and make a story of it--we'd have given it a column, with full heads; but the old man didn't like it.

It's hard to know what some people will like.

But it was my own foolishness for asking.