I am now beyond seventy-five.
What do you do to get your livelihood?
I do these.
Pretty doing it is; but how did you get your livelihood, say, before these last precious forty-eight years of your life?
I was a gentleman.
What do you call a gentleman?
Being sometimes poor, sometimes rich.
Come now, say what was your occupation before you took to this trade?
I followed many occupations.
Were you not an ostler?