They'd be lonesome if they were away from them." "'Tis strange, wonderful strange, how some folks lives," remarked Thomas, quite astonished that any could prefer the city to his own big, free Labrador.

"When folks has enough to keep un busy they never gets lonesome, and bein' idle is like wastin' a part of life.

A man could never be lonesome where there's plenty o' water and woods about.
I always finds jobs a-plenty to turn my hand to, and I has no time to feel lonesome.

And I never could live where I didn't have room enough to stretch, _what_ever." "That's it!" Doctor Joe spoke decisively.

"Room enough to stretch mind as well as body.