Have you got the cows down, dear ?" The Senator, at the other window, looked across disparagingly, hard at work on his beard.

He said nothing, but after a time abruptly thrust his hands in his pockets, and his feet out in front of him in a manner which expressed absolute dissent.

When momma said she thought she would try to get a little sleep he looked round observantly, and as soon as her slumber was sound and comfortable he beckoned to me.
"See here," he said, not unkindly, argumentatively.

"About those cows.
In fact, about all these pointers your mother's been giving you.

They're all very nice and poetic--I don't want to run down momma's ideas--but they don't strike me as original.