I hante see'd no man to England I affection so much as Mr.Tact, I swear! I begin to think, arter all, it was the right of _sarchin' vessels_ he wanted to talk to me about, instead of _sarchin' me_, as I suspicioned.
It don't do always _to look for motives, men often act without any_.

The next time, if he axes me, I'll talk plain, and jist tell him what I _do_ think; but still, if he reads that riddle right, he may larn a good deal, too, from the story of "the Gander Pulling," mayn't he ?".