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Mr Garth had a small office in the town, and to this Fred ith

his request He obtained it without e

amount of painful experience had not sufficed to make Caleb Garth

cautious about his own affairs, or distrustful of his fellow-men when

they had not proved thehest

opinion of Fred, was "sure the lad would turn out well--an open

affectionate felloith a good botto" Such was Caleb's psychological argument He

was one of those rare ent to

others He had a certain shahbors' errors, and never

spoke of thely; hence he was not likely to divert his enious devices in

order to preconceive those errors If he had to blame any one, it was

necessary for him to move all the papers within his reach, or describe

various diagrams with his stick, or make calculations with the odd

in; and he would rather do

otherI fear he was a bad

disciplinarian

When Fred stated the circu his father, and the certainty that theso as to cause no one any inconvenience, Caleb pushed his

spectacles upward, listened, looked into his favorite's clear young