They have travelled by stumblin', and have measured every thing by the length of their knee, as they fell on the ground, as a milliner measures lace, by the bendin' down of the forefinger--cuss 'em! Turn the tables on 'em.

Report on _them_, measure _them_, but take care to keep your feet though, don't be caught trippin', don't make no mistakes.
"Then we'll go to the Lords' House--I don't mean to meetin' house, though we must go there too, and hear Me Neil and Chalmers, and them sort o' cattle; but I mean the house where the nobles meet, pick out the big bugs, and see what sort o' stuff they are made of.

Let's take minister with us--he is a great judge of these things.

I should like you to hear his opinion; he knows every thin' a'most, though the ways of the world bother him a little sometimes; but for valyin' a man, or stating principles, or talkin' politics, there ain't no man equal to him, hardly.

He is a book, that's a fact; it's all there what you want; all you've got to do is to cut the leaves.