Ef you press the matter, there ain't no more reas'n for this than that hes father afore him cudn' abide et; but how does he act?
'Hulloa!' says he, 'there's a party in red, an' I don't care a tinker's cuss whether 'tes a mail-cart or a milisha-man: I'm bound to stop this 'ere taste for red ef I dies nex' minnit.' And at et he goes accordin'.

Ef he seed the Scarlet Woman about in his part o' the country, he'd lay by an' h'ist her, an' you'd say, 'Well done!' an' I don't say you'd be wrong.

But jest you stop an' ax hes motives, an' you'll find 'taint religion.

Lor' bless 'ee, sir, a bull's got no more use for religion than a toad for side-pockets.

'Tes obstinacy--that's what 'tes.