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Now, Joe kept a journeyes whose name was Orlick

He pretended that his Christian nae,--a clear

Impossibility,--but he was a fellow of that obstinate disposition that I

believe him to have been the prey of no delusion in this particular, but

wilfully to have ie as an affront to its

understanding He was a broadshouldered loose-lith, never in a hurry, and always slouching He never even

seemed to come to his work on purpose, but would slouch in as if by eht, he would slouch out, like Cain or the Wandering Jew,

as if he had no idea where he was going and no intention of ever

coed at a sluice-keeper's out on thefroe, with his hands in

his pockets and his dinner loosely tied in a bundle round his neck

and dangling on his back On Sundays he ainst ricks and barns He always slouched,

locoround; and, when accosted or

otherwise required to raise them, he looked up in a half-resentful,