Then the girls waited on us; a good-looking pair they was too, full of larks and fun of all kinds, and not very particular what sort of jokes they laughed at.

They knew well enough, of course, where we'd come from, and what we laid by all day and travelled at night for; they thought none the worse of us for that, not they.

They'd been bred up where they'd heard all kinds of rough talk ever since they was little kiddies, and you couldn't well put them out.
They were a bit afraid of Starlight at first, though, because they seen at once that he was a swell.

Jim they knew a little of; he and father had called there a good deal the last season, and had done a little in the stock line through Jonathan Barnes.

They could see I was something in the same line as Jim.