One day that he had been writing a letter in Mr. Smalls' rooms, which were on the ground-floor, Verdant congratulated himself that his own rooms were on the third floor, and were thus removed from the possibility of his friends, when he had sported his oak, being able to get through his window to chaff him; but he soon discovered that rooms upstairs had also objectionable points in their private character, and were not altogether such eligible apartments as he had at first anticipated.

“Esquire! Lucky it didn't make a misgo of it, superscribed like that — Here — it's yourn!”

We had difficulty understanding him with his thick accent.

Most farmers in this region cultivate maize.