"You'm the head of the house," he said.
"And if my hand have lost its cunning, my head have not—eh, Thomas?"
"It have not," admitted Thomas.
"Father makes his head help his heels, don't you, father?" asked Soosie-Toosie, following her question with an explosion.
"I should hope so; and do, for God's love, go out in the scullery when you feel a sneeze coming, there's a dear! You be scattering the evil germs around us so thick as starlings."
"I'm just going," she said, "they'll be done their tea in a minute; then I'll gather the things and get away for the wash-up."
Dinah soon departed to help the sufferer; then Joe smoked and bade the others do the like.
"'Twill lay Soosie's germs," he said.
They discussed Maynard, who had gone to see some cows for a neighbour.
"What he don't know about 'em ain't worth knowing," said Mr. Stockman. "A tower of strength the man is going to be."