Josh couldn't bear that statue--said the muscles were all wrong.

So, if you please, he takes it down, dresses himself in nothing at all--same as you might be, bare as my palm--and a Justice of the Peace, mind you--and stands himself in the middle of the fountain, with all the guests arriving.

Not an easy thing to pass off, and it caused a scandal: but folks didn't seem to mind.
'It was Truscott's way,' they said: 'after all, he comes of a clever family, and we hope his son will be better.' A man wants character to carry off a thing like that." I agreed that character must have been Mr.Truscott's secret.
"Now _I_ couldn't do that for the life of me," Mr.Rogers sighed, and chuckled over another reminiscence.

"Josh had a shindy once with a groom.

The fellow asked for a rise in wages.