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His daddles he used with such skill and dexterity

Winning eacheach eye"

"Ha!--I should say, John, that Adaht put it--in a free and easy, airyleaves an' suchlike, John,--I should say as he didn't have no

call to be a gentle as there weren't any tailors"

"Tailors!" exclaiot

to do wi' it, Natty Bell?"

"A great deal

't was tailors as invented gentlemen as a matter o' trade, John So,

if Barnabas wants to have a try at being one--he o dressed in the fashion"

"That is very true," said Barnabas, nodding

"Though," pursued Natty Bell, "if you were the best dressed, the

handsoest, the bravest, the cleverest, the entle 'em and tried to be one of

'eentleht, lad,--because if you should

try to turn yourself into a gentleman, why, Lord, Barnabas!--you'd

only be a sort of a amitoor arter all, lad"