Frederick Marryat

“ Such was the commencement of the dairy at the cottage.
"Jacob," said Humphrey, "when do you go to Lymington again?"
"Why, I do not know. The end of August, as it is now, and the month of September, is not good for venison; and, therefore, I do not see what I shall have to go for."
"Well, I wish, when you do go, you would get something for Alice and something for me."
"And what is it that Alice wants?"
"She wants a kitten."
"Well, I think I may find that. And what do you want, Humphrey?"
"I want a dog. Smoker is yours altogether; I want a dog for myself, to bring up after my own fashion." ”

“ We must try if we cannot, like Alice, find means to pay for another."
"Humphrey," said Jacob, "I'll buy all you want, and trust to you for paying me again as soon as you can."
"That's just what I want," replied Humphrey. "Then you must buy me a gun and a new suit of clothes first; when I've paid for them I shall want some more tools, and some nails and screws, and two or three other things; but I will say nothing about them just now. Get me my gun, and I'll try what the forest will do for me -- especially after I have my dog." ”

“ We have to fatten three, and to feed the rest during the winter. I cannot get on well with only Alice and Edith; so if you are not very lazy, you will stay with us and help us."
"Humphrey, you think of nothing but your pigs and farm-yard."
"And you are too great a hunter to think of anything but a stag; but a bird in the hand's worth two in the bush, in my opinion; and I'll make more by my farm-yard than you ever will by the forest."
"Humphrey has nothing to do with the poultry and eggs, has he, Edward? ”