"Do you think you could be of any use up there, Clam?"
"Mr. Winthrop says everybody can be of use."
"Then go and try; I don't want you; and stay as long as they would like to have you."
"When will I go, Mis' Landholm?"
"What?"
"I asked Mis' Landholm, when will I go."
"What do you mean, Clam!"
"You said call you any name I liked — and I like that 'bout as well as any one," said Clam sturdily.
"But it isn't my name."
"I wish 'twas," said Clam; — "no, I don' know as I do, neither; but it comes kind o' handy."