‘Isn’t it a kind of roguish, chaffing bird, brother?’
‘I believe it is, Jasper.’
‘Nobody knows whence it comes, brother?’
‘I believe not, Jasper.’
‘Very poor, brother, not a nest of its own?’
‘So they say, Jasper.’
‘With every person’s bad word, brother?’
‘Yes, Jasper; every person is mocking it.’
‘Tolerably merry, brother?’
‘Yes, tolerably merry, Jasper.’