He'll be ninety now; but his father lived till he was more than a hundred, and most of his fore-elders touched the century.

He's had his troubles too." "I never heard of them." "No.

They are dead and buried.

A dead trouble may be forgot: it is the living troubles that make the eyes dim, and the heart fail.

Yes, yes; Barf is as happy as a boy now, but I remember when he was back-set and fore-set with trouble.