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The Tinker stopped chewing to stare at ulp

"Lord love , too!"

"No," said I; "I'm twenty-five"

"And Latin, now--don't tell me you can read the Latin"

"But I can't make a kettle, or even mend one, for that matter,"

said I

"But you are a scholar, and it's a fine thing to be a scholar!"

"And I tell you again, it is better to be a tinker," said I

"How so?"

"It is a healthier life, in the first place," said I

"That, I can believe," nodded the Tinker

"It is a happier life, in the second place"

"That, I doubt," returned the Tinker

"And, in the third place, it pays much better"

"That, I don't believe," said the Tinker

"Nevertheless," said I, "speaking for myself, I have, in the

course of s, and

that--but by the sale of