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"My dear sir," said Mr Trabb, as he respectfully bent his body, opened

his ar me on the outside of each

elbow, "don't hurt ratulate

you? Would you dointo the shop?"

Mr Trabb's boy was the most audacious boy in all that country-side

When I had entered he eeping the shop, and he had sweetened his

labors by sweeping overwhen I came out into

the shop with Mr Trabb, and he knocked the brooainst all possible

corners and obstacles, to express (as I understood it) equality with any

blacksmith, alive or dead

"Hold that noise," said Mr Trabb, with the greatest sternness, "or I'll

knock your head off!--Do me the favor to be seated, sir Now, this,"

said Mr Trabb, taking down a roll of cloth, and tiding it out in a

flowinghis hand under

it to show the gloss, "is a very sweet article I can recommend it for

your purpose, sir, because it really is extra super But you shall

see some others Give me Number Four, you!" (To the boy, and with a

dreadfully severe stare; foreseeing the danger of that n of familiarity) Mr Trabb never removed his stern eye from the boy until he had

deposited nuain

Then he coht "And let

me have none of your tricks here," said Mr Trabb, "or you shall repent