But I shall have to appeal to you rather often for a while until I get thoroughly acquainted with my work." "Good fer you," said David.

"You've took holt a good sight quicker 'n I thought ye would, an' I'll spend more or less time 'round here fer a while, or be where you c'n reach me.

It's like this," he continued; "Chet's a helpless kind of critter, fer all his braggin' an' talk, an' I ben feelin' kind o' wambly about turnin' him loose--though the Lord knows," he said with feeling, "'t I've had bother enough with him to kill a tree.

But anyway I wrote to some folks I know up to Syrchester to git something fer him to do, an' I got a letter to send him along, an' mebbe they'd give him a show.

See ?" "Yes, sir," said John, "and if you are willing to take the chances of my mistakes I will undertake to get on without him." "All right," said the banker, "we'll call it a heat--and, say, don't let on what I've told you.