They were a kindly folk, the Mitchells.

I thought puirly of theem for a wastrel crew when I was young.

But now I am old, I doubt their way was as near right as mine.

You will tell him for me, Mr.Johnson, to name one who shall put a value on his gear, and I shall name another; and what they agree upon I shall pay over to his doer, and then may I never hear of him more--unless it be of ony glisk of good yet in him, the which I shall be most blithe to hear.

And so let that be my last word of Oscar.