It 'ud help you to do more, though Pratt says as it's usin' your voice so constant as does you the most harm.

Now, isn't it--I'm no scholard, Mr.Tryan, an' I'm not a-goin' to dictate to you--but isn't it a'most a-killin' o' yourself, to go on a' that way beyond your strength?
We mustn't fling ower lives away.' 'No, not fling them away lightly, but we are permitted to lay down our lives in a right cause.

There are many duties, as you know, Mr.Jerome, which stand before taking care of our own lives.' 'Ah! I can't arguy wi' you, Mr.Tryan; but what I wanted to say's this--There's my little chacenut hoss; I should take it quite a kindness if you'd hev him through the winter an' ride him.

I've thought o' sellin' him a many times, for Mrs.Jerome can't abide him; and what do I want wi' two nags?
But I'm fond o' the little chacenut, an' I shouldn't like to sell him.

So if you'll only ride him for me, you'll do me a kindness--you will, indeed, Mr.Tryan.' 'Thank you, Mr.Jerome.I promise you to ask for him, when I feel that I want a nag.