She looks to me to secure them a footing in exclusive circles, Mr.McGuire." "I don't know what y're talkin' about," Stub grumbled, "but that's enough of it, see ?" Nickie took no notice of his employer's admonitions, however, and when a clergyman drove up in a buggy an hour later, our hero intercepted him at the gate.
"Good afternoon, sir," he said.

"Would you mind tellin' Willyum inside there how Nickie sends him his compliments, and 'opes Jinny's quite well." "My good fellow, you must not be insolent," ejaculated the minister.
"They won't take it as hinsolence," Nicholas explained.

"They've er very touchin' regard fer me.

Tell them.

I arsked after 'em, won't yer ?" Even Stub McGuire noticed that Nickie, whose speech was usually excellent, adopted the vulgar tongue in addressing the man he called Billy, or any of his friends or relations.
Next day, Nickie inveigled three children, who were playing on the lawn, and entertained them at the gate with frivolous conversation for nearly ten minutes, when the state of affairs was discovered by their dignified mamma, who sent a maid flying to the rescue.