"I will take the clock, though I don't know what my mother will say.

It is a most valuable present.

I hope we can do something for you some day." "Tut, tut, tut!" growled the old man.

"Just like all the rest o' the world.

Got no faith,--can't believe in gettin' somethin' for nothin'.
You're right, child,--right, right.