But don't you teach my husband to quarrel with his vittles.'" "All the same, when a man has convictions--" "Convictions are well enough when you can afford 'em," Brother Clerihew grunted again.

"But up against Colt--what's the use?
And where's his backing?
Ibbetson, with a wife hanging on to his coat-tails; and old Bonaday, that wouldn't hurt a fly; and Copas, standing off and sneering." "A man might have all the pains of Golgotha upon him before ever _you_ turned a hair," grumbled Brother Dasent, a few yards away.
He writhed in his chair, for the rheumatism was really troublesome; but he over-acted his suffering somewhat, having learnt in forty-five years of married life that his spouse was not over-ready with sympathy.
"T'cht!" answered she.

"I ought to know what they're like by this time, and I wonder, for my part, you don't try to get accustomed to 'em.

Dying one can understand: but to be worrited with a man's ailments, noon and night, it gets on the nerves.

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