Sons should come arter fathers, specially where there's land.

We don't none of us like it;--none of us! It's worse nor going, any one of ourselves.

For what's a lease?
But when a man has a freehold he should stick to it for ever and aye.

It's just as though the old place was a-tumbling about all our ears.' Caldigate was good-natured with the man, trying to make him understand that everything was being done for the best.

And at last he bade him good-bye affectionately, shaking hands with him, and going into the farmhouse to perform the same ceremony with his wife and daughters.