"A sart of a harf-witted fellow" is Tom Peregrine's description of this very suspicious-looking traveller.

"One harf-an'-harf!"

" "How's that?" "Why, I wasn't there harf an hour

Well, all I can say is, that if I affords the heminent Amerrycane jest about harf the fun and emusement as he does me, I must be a much cleverer feller than I ewer thort myself, or than my better harf ewer told me as I was.

Well, all I can say is, that if I affords the heminent Amerrycane jest about harf the fun and emusement as he does me, I must be a much cleverer feller than I ewer thort myself, or than my better harf ewer told me as I was.