It's the principle I object to.

Country people are always at this sort of thing.

They'd ask me to meet an Alderney bull and entertain him till they send for him.

What am I to do with an unknown new chum?
I'd sooner have an Alderney bull--he'd be easier to arrange for.

He'd stop where he was put, anyhow." Here Gillespie, the globe-trotter, cut into the conversation.