Some says he's crazy, and some jest cross; and some says he's got a skeleton in his closet."
When he comes back he writes books--queer, odd books, they say, about some gimcrack he's found in them heathen countries.
"He only came back last night," said the Warden, when the kissing was over: "
he's been traveling post-haste, for the last thousand miles or so, in order to be here on Sylvie's birthday.
"
He's gone and burned up his wife's new, brown broadcloth suit, that she paid twenty-five dollars for in Charlottetown, because he declares the men looked too admiring at her when she wore it to church the first time.
He's twenty-seven, now, and has had it ever since the first time he ever went in swimming.
"
He's the kind that ain't afraid of lions," Collins concurred.
I can stand the rest, for they have plain wits; but
he's too crazy-witty for my sanity.
Seemed to want the money, and
he's won a bit, though his clothes don't look it.
He's a very nervous man, and is sometimes out of humor, it's true, but then he is often very nice.
He's just come through hell, an' this is the first time
he's ben loose.
He told me to tell yer
he's got his collars and cuffs in dat grip for a scoot clean out to 'Frisco.
Stephen Guest said at the anniversary dinner (he hits these things off wonderfully, considering
he's seen nothing of business).