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"Well, I kinder do it out o' spite to myself There's somethin' inside of me sayin' all the tirace? It'll end in your havin' to give hio without it, and yet all the time you're wishin' that you needn't do it'"

"Well, you need not," said Haldane

"Yes, I must, too"

"All I ask of you is what you think that work is worth"

"Well, that ain't all I ask of ry you say--s'pose you tell the truth sometimes; here you're down, and all the respectable people sittin' down hard on you; here you are in the devil's clutches, and he's got you half way toward the briot to give it to you That's what I call bein' mean and a fool both A-a-h!"

Haldane stopped a h he had enjoyed since his arrest

"I hope you will pardon me, ely honest way of talking"

"I'm old, but I ain't venerable My na reply

"I'm fraid you have too much conscience, Mr Growther It won't let you do comfortably what others do as a matter of course"

"I've nothin' to do with other people I knohat's right, and I' abouthas made you so out of sorts with yourself"

"If it ain't you it's somethin' else I ain't more out of sorts than usual"

"Well, you'll soon be rid of h in an hour"

"Yes, and here it is the middle of the afternoon, and you haven't had your dinner yet, and for all I know, no breakfast nuther I was precious careful to have both of rowlin' while you're workin' on an empty stomach But it's just like me A-a-h! I'll call you in a few minutes, and I won't pay you a cent unless you come in;" and the old e which he shared with the cat and dog that, as he stated,with hihtly against a loose stone, and he stopped for a e equal to the occasion, and then commenced such a tirade of abuse with his poor weazened little self as its object, that one would naturally feel like taking sides with the decrepit body against the vindictive spirit Haldane would have knocked a stranger down had he said half ashim after his own odd fashion But the irate old ation with the words: "What's one doin' above ground who can't lift his foot over a stone only an inch high? A-a-h!" and then he went on, and disappeared in the house, fro after came the savory odor of coffee