ys he'd like to know you.
He's great on people what has a lot to put up with, and don't shout
about it. And Ma she looks at Dolly, and says, 'God bless her,'
meaning you.

"Jimmy Duggan, you remember I told you all about him, he wants to bring
in some bills when the Provincial House meets, and he says to ask your
father and the boys to think something up, because he says the city
people have so many crazy schemes he's afraid to try anything for them.
So ask them, please.

"My feet are tired chasing letters to you know who for Mister Whimple.
She's a fine lady though, and I hope the boss will marry her. When I
took a note up yesterday, she was talking to me about my visit, so I
told her a lot of things I thought she's like and about your brother
George going courting, and she says, 'It's a terrible thing this love,
William,' and I asked her does she suffer much from it. So she blushes
awful red, and looked prettier than ever, and says kind of like she
didn't remember I was around, 'Most women do--most women do, and I
never really knew until now what love was.' Now what do you think of
that, and her married once before! Mister Simmons, he's Lucien's boss,
he says her husband was an awful booze fighter right till he died, and
my Pa says there ain't any man yet that's ever been able to win a fight
against booze so long as he's willing to let booze get into his inwards.

"I guess this letter will make you awful tired, specially if it's a hot
day, but there's seems to be so much I'd like to tell you. You
remember the old man I told you about that I collect rent from, the
fellow that has rheumatics. He's getting quite chummy with me now. I
was there the other day, and he hardly swore at all. He says he's
sorry he's wasted so many good cuss words on me when he's got so many
relatives waiting for him to die so's they can get his money. Honest,
the way he curses about those people is awful. I told Tommy Watson
about him one day, and Tommy says the Good Book is dead against wasting
anything. A man like that, he says, could make a great hit by saving
all his curses for one year, and then letting them loose on one of the
people he don't love. Whoever got them would never forget, and they'd
think more of Mister Jonas than they do with him throwing curses around
as though they were cheaper than newspapers.

"Tommy's got a great set of hired help in his store. One of them's
from Aberdeen, and the other from London, En