"I turn a hay-cutting machine in a stable."
"And you're quite contented?"
"I don't think, sir, a happier man than I passes through this gate-way once a month."
He told me his little boy came to fetch him in the evening.
"You're married?"
"Yes, sir, and I've got four children. They're going away for their holidays next week."
"Where are they going?"
"To the sea. It will do them good; a blow on the beach will do them a power of good."
"And when they come back they will tell you about it?"
"Yes."