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No manner could have been less like that of Punch triu phrases, though he was

very particular about his letter-writing, and regarded his wife as a

treasury of correct language

There was al the children now, and Mary held up the

caht be

put out of reach while the boys dragged her into a dance Mrs Garth,

in placid joy, began to put the cups and plates together, while Caleb

pushing his chair fro tohis letters in his hand and looking on the

ground ers of his left hand,

according to a e of his own At last he said--

"It's a thousand pities Christy didn't take to business, Susan I

shall want help by-and-by And Alfred --I've er-rhetoric again for a little while, and then continued: "I shall

reements with the tenants, and I shall draw up a

rotation of crops And I'll lay a wager we can get fine bricks out of

the clay at Bott's corner I must look into that: it would cheapen the