Ha! ha! He tried to patronize me when I first came back here and took this depot and I just smiled and asked him what the market price of johnny-cake was these days.

He got red clear up to the brim of his tall hat.

Humph! 'TWAS funny." "The market price of JOHNNY-CAKE! He must have thought you was loony." "No.

I'm the last man he'd think was loony.

You see I met him a fore he came here to live at all." "You did?
Where ?" "Oh, over to Wellmouth.