Billy took her pencil.

It is certain that the laying traits can be up-built by breeding from the heavy layers, just as the milk producing qualities have been built up by breeding from great milk producers; […]

We met no one on the way save a farmer or two, and here, being near to the Schuylkill, my old master farrier took leave of me at the farm of Edward Masters, which lay in our way, and commended me to the care of this good Free Quaker.

My precious, please don′t ever send me a penny of extra money. That is very straight dinkum.