And he said--where is it?
Oh, yes, here! He said, 'You tell Mr.Perks it's a pleasure to make a little trifle for a man as is so much respected,' and then he said he wished he could shoe your children and his own children, like they do the horses, because, well, he knew what shoe leather was." "James is a good enough chap," said Perks.
"Then the honey," said Bobbie, in haste, "and the boot-laces.

HE said he respected a man that paid his way--and the butcher said the same.

And the old turnpike woman said many was the time you'd lent her a hand with her garden when you were a lad--and things like that came home to roost--I don't know what she meant.

And everybody who gave anything said they liked you, and it was a very good idea of ours; and nobody said anything about charity or anything horrid like that.

And the old gentleman gave Peter a gold pound for you, and said you were a man who knew your work.