Well, that wasn't so much against him, you know, so I got talking to him one day, and found out that he came from my part of England.

I found he had a wife, so I sent home money to some friends, and asked them to send her out; which they did and, finding she had, before she married him, been cook in a gentleman's family, I engaged her here, and sent up the country for Watson to come down.

I had told him nothing about it; for I thought, perhaps, his wife might refuse to come out, or might have married again, or anything else.
"Well, the meeting was a happy one, as you may suppose; and I then settled him down here--at least, it wasn't here, but a smaller place I had then--and he has been with me ever since.

His time was out some years ago, but that has made no difference.

Nothing would induce him to leave me; and I would not part with him for any amount, for a more faithful and trusty fellow never lived, and when I go away I know everything will go along like clockwork.