It's kind o' hard footin'." Solomon spoke with the animation of a boy.

At last he had found something in London which had pleased and excited him.
"Did you have a good time at Sir Jeffrey's ?" the young man asked.
"Better'n a barn raisin'! Say, hones', I never seen nothin' like it--'twere so blandiferous! At fust I were a leetle bit like a man tied to a tree--felt so helpless an' unsart'in.

Didn't know what were goin' to happen.

Then ol' Jeff come an' ontied me, as ye might say, an' I 'gun to feel right.

'Course Preston tol' me not to be skeered--that the doin's would be friendly, an' they was.