"And so you are off to-morrow, are you ?" "Got to be," declared Mr.Timson.

"I'd 'a' liked to stay with you a spell longer, but the's a big concern f'm out of town that as soon as they heard I was at libe'ty wrote for me to come right along up, an' I s'pose I hadn't ought to keep 'em waitin'." "No, I should think not," said John, "and I congratulate you upon having located yourself so quickly." "Oh!" said Mr.Timson, with ineffable complacency, "I hain't give myself no worry; I hain't lost no sleep.

I've allowed all along that Dave Harum'd find out that he wa'n't the unly man that needed my kind o' work, an' I ain't meanin' any disrispect to you when I say 't--" "Just so," said John.

"I quite understand.

Nobody could expect to take just the place with him that you have filled.