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"But supposing you did?"

"It can't be supposed," said Joe "Tho' I',

too"

"Are you, Joe?"

"On-coood newspaper, and

sit ood fire, and I ask no better Lord!" he continued,

after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and

says you, "Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe, how interesting reading is!"

I derived from this, that Joe's education, like Stea the subject, I inquired,-"Didn't you ever go to school, Joe, when you were as little as o to school, Joe, when you were as little asup the poker, and settling hihtful, of slowly raking the fire

between the lower bars; "I'll tell you My father, Pip, he were given

to drink, and when he were overtook with drink, he hammered away at

he did,

indeed, 'xcepting at or only

to be equalled by the wigor hich he didn't ha, Pip?"