A farmer, for instance, with a little money, is in search of a farm.

Find him twenty farms just the size for his capital, he will visit them all and discover a fault in each, and waver and waver till the proper season for entering on possession is past.

The great problem with country people is how to bring them to the point.

You may think you have got all your witnesses ready for the train for London, and, as the bell rings, find that one has slipped away half a mile to talk with the blacksmith about the shoeing of his mare.

Even the squire is trying when, he talks of this or that settlement.