Father was one of those people that gets shut of a deal of trouble in this world by always sticking to one thing.

If he said he'd do this or that he always did it and nothing else.

As for turning him, a wild bull half-way down a range was a likelier try-on.

So nobody ever bothered him after he'd once opened his mouth.

They knew it was so much lost labour.
I sometimes thought Aileen was a bit like him in her way of sticking to things.