"Well, I think it's best as it is; if you meddled with it, sister, you might repent.
" "I'n ne'er meddled, an' I'n no call to promise," said Timothy.
One day, when he was doing some valuation for me, he told me point-blank that clergymen seldom understood anything about business, and did mischief when they meddled; but he said it as quietly and respectfully as if he had been talking to me about sailors.
That was the boy's favourite piece of furniture, but he dared not touch it, for if he meddled with it he got a rap on the knuckles.
