Then the bull-dog, he trotted off with his tail a-hangin' down.

'Now, then,' says I, 'them dogs will be bosom friends forever after this.' 'Ah me!' says he, 'I'm sorry indeed that your employer, for who I've always had a great respect, should allow you to get into such habits.' That made me feel real bad, and I told him, mighty quick, that you was the last man in the world to let me do anything like that, and that, if you'd 'a' been here, you'd 'a' separated them dogs, if they'd a-chawed your arms off; that you was very particular about such things; and that it would be a pity if he was to think you was a dog-fightin' gentleman, when I'd often heard you say that, now you was fixed an' settled, the one thing you would like most would be to be made a vestryman." I sat up straight in my chair.
"Pomona!" I exclaimed, "you didn't tell him that ?" "That's what I said, sir, for I wanted him to know what you really was; an' he says, 'Well, well, I never knew that.

It might be a very good thing.

I'll speak to some of the members about it.

There's two vacancies now in our vestry." I was crushed; but Euphemia tried to put the matter into the brightest light.
"Perhaps it may all turn out for the best," she said, "and you may be elected, and that would be splendid.