"Well, I call that talking modestly, and nothing becomes a young man more than modesty." "It a'n't I, daddy," said Mr.Petulengro.

"Here's the man," said he, pointing to Tawno.

"Here's the horse-leaper of the world!" "You mean the horseback breaker," said the landlord.

"That big fellow would break down my cousin's horse." "Why, he weighs only sixteen stone," said Mr.Petulengro.

"And his sixteen stone, with his way of handling a horse, does not press so much as any other one's thirteen.