"Whew!" says Cobbs, "that's a spanking sum of money, Master Harry."

"A person could do a good deal with such a sum of money as that,--couldn't
a person, Cobbs?"

"I believe you, sir!"

"Cobbs," said the boy, "I'll tell you a secret. At Norah's house, they
have been joking her about me, and pretending to laugh at our being
engaged,--pretending to make game of it, Cobbs!"

"Such, sir," says Cobbs, "is the depravity of human natur."

The boy, looking exactly like his father, stood for a few minutes with
his glowing face towards the sunset, and then departed with, "Good-night,
Cobbs. I'm going in."

If I was to ask Boots how it happened that he was a-going to leave that
place just at that present time, well, he couldn't rightly answer me. He
did suppose he might have stayed there till now if he had been anyways
inclined. But, you see, he was younger then, and he wanted change.
That's what he wanted,--change. Mr. Walmers, he said to him when he gave
him notice of his intentions to leave, "Cobbs," he says, "have you
anythink to complain of? I make the inquiry because if I find that any
of my people really has anythink to complain of, I wish to make it right
if I can." "No, sir," says Cobbs; "thanking you, sir, I find myself as
well sitiwated here as I could hope to be anywheres. The truth is, sir,
that I'm a-going to seek my fortun'." "O, indeed, Cobbs!" he says; "I
hope you may find it." And Boots could assure me--which he did, touching
his hair with his bootjack, as a salute in the way of his present