eh?
Do you remember what I told you last time I was in this shop?
I told you I'd pay my debts to you and Sam Hunniwell if I waited fifty year.

Well, here's Hunniwell's pay comin' to him now.

He's praised that Phillips thief from one end of Ostable county to the other, told how smart he was and how honest and good he was till--Lord A'mighty, it's enough to turn a decent man's stomach! And not only that, but here's the feller courtin' his daughter.

Oh, ho, ho, ho! that's the best of the whole business.

That was another thing made me hang off and wait; I wanted to see how the courtin' came along.