Your intentions are good, but mine are not, and it takes two to make a bargain." Nickie entered his new duties at once.

After lunch he took a shovel into the garden and toyed with the earth a while, and then he went to sleep under a tree.

The Rev.Nippit awakened him and talked with him in a firm but kindly spirit on the virtues of honest dealings with one's employer, and the necessity of industry to keep the world wagging, Nickie' graciously admitted that it was all very true.

But when set to clean out the fowl-house he sat on a stone and held converse with an educated cockatoo next door.
That evening, clean-shaven, freshly-bathed, dressed in a cast-off suit of James Nippit's, whole if slightly rusty, and robbed of its clerical significance, Nickie the Kid attended a religions function with his reverend employer.

Nickie was orderly, wakeful and fairly attentive.