"Or is house movin' gettin' on your vitals ?" "No," growled the depot master, "grub's all right and so's movin', I cal'late.

I'm glad you fellers come in.

What's the news to Orham, Barzilla?
How's the Old Home House boarders standin' it?
Hear from Jonadab regular, do you ?" Mr.Wingate laughed.

"Nothin' much," he said.

"Jonadab's too busy to write these days.