A doctor has to have a horse.

If you can't pay for it down, Mark knows some one who'd let you have a good one on time.

You can trust Mark, if he _is_ mournful.

Of course I don't say that these rooms are the only rooms to let in Coombe, but I do think they're about as good as you can get--being so near to Dr.Coombe's old house.

People get used to coming for a doctor down this street." "But that was, over a year ago." "It takes more 'an a year for Coombe folks to change their ways.