"You mean Mosely and his friend?"
"Yes. What galls me, Ben, is that they're likely laughin' in their shoes at the way they've tricked us, and there's no help for it."
"Not just now, Jake, but we may overtake them yet. Till we do, we may as well take things as easy as we can."
"You're right, Ben. You'mind me of an old man that used to live in the place where I was raised. He never borrered any trouble, but when things was contrary, he waited for 'em to take a turn. When he saw a neighbor frettin', he used to say, 'Fret not thy gizzard, for it won't do no good.'"
Ben laughed.
"That was good advice," he said.
"I don't know where he got them words from. Maybe they're in the Bible."
"I guess not," said Ben, smiling. "They don't sound like it."
"Perhaps you're right," said Bradley, not fully convinced, however. "Seems to me I've heard old Parson Brown get off something to that effect."
"Perhaps it was this-'Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.'"