"I am nothing if not adaptable! And the ways of your people are such attractive ones." And life here was easy, at least compared to the life Bert had lived before. There were machines to do everything, services to tend to every need, miracles were common acts of machinery...

"Whatever I can, mostly! All sorts of odd jobs. Labor work, exercising rich people's horses for'em, tending people's pets... Wealthy folks will pay a damned nice bit of cash, jest for yeh to make sure their animals are played with and walked and pampered when they're at work! Assuming yeh've for the right references."

And Bert always managed to have the right references.

"Hmm? Oh! Those are phones! Mobile ones, they're like little tv internet tablets that can make telephone calls but I hardly see anyone using'em for that."