"Kenelm Parker! The idea!" "Yes, that's what I say, the idea! Here's an old critter--yes, he is old, too.

He's so nigh seventy he don't dast look at the almanac for fear he'll find it's past his birthday.

And he's always been so tight with money that he'd buy second-hand postage stamps if the Gov'ment wouldn't catch him.

And his wife's been dead a couple of hundred year, more or less, and yet, by thunder-mighty, all to once he starts in--" "Kenelm Parker, you stop this minute! I'm ashamed of you.

Mr.Hammond's a real, nice, respectable man.