However, I did not come away out here in this field to quarrel with you, David Nesbit.

I came because I am a--" "Nuisance," suggested Reddy.
"Precisely.

No, I don't mean anything of the sort.

I am not a nuisance.
A nuisance is a tall, thin, conceited person with flaming red hair, pale blue eyes, a freckled nose and a slanderous tongue.

His name begins with R and he is--" Without finishing his sentence Hippy took to his heels and disappeared around the corner of the Omnibus House, with an agility worthy of a better cause.
"I'll see that he keeps at a safe distance from us till we start for Grace's," was Reddy's grim comment.