Can any man here show cause or just impediment why this marriage should not take place ?" "You'd better ask that o' Young Zeb, mister," said Prudy.
"Why ?" "You owe your life to'n, I hear." "When next you see him you can put two questions.

Ask him in the first place if he saved it at my request." "Tut-tut.

A man likes to live, whether he axes for it or no," grunted Elias Sweetland.

"And what the devil do you know about it ?" demanded the stranger.
"I reckon I know what a man's like." "Oh, you do, do you?
Wait a while, my friend.

In the second place," he went on, returning to Prudy, "ask young Zebedee Minards, if he wants my life back, to come and fetch it.