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"And you, Joe, look wonderfully well"

"Thank God," said Joe, "I'm ekerval to most And your sister, she's

no worse than she were And Biddy, she's ever right and ready And all

friends is no backerder, if not no forarder 'Ceptin Wopsle; he's had a

drop"

All this tireat care of the

bird's-nest), Joe was rolling his eyes round and round the rooown

"Had a drop, Joe?"

"Why yes," said Joe, lowering his voice, "he's left the Church and went

into the playacting Which the playacting have likeways brought hietting the

bird's-nest under his left arht; "if no offence, as I would 'and you that"

I took what Joe gave me, and found it to be the cru the first appearance, in that

very week, of "the celebrated Provincial Amateur of Roscian renown,

whose unique perforic walk of our National Bard

has lately occasioned so great a sensation in local dramatic circles"

"Were you at his performance, Joe?" I inquired

"I were," said Joe, with ereat sensation?"

"Why," said Joe, "yes, there certainly were a peck of orange-peel