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Miss Sherwood observed that "Mrs Wi plaintiveness of his expression He was a weazened, blank, pale-

eyed little man, with a thin, white e for him that the sleeves were rolled up from his wrists with several

turns, and, as he cliate of the

lane, it needed no perspicuous eye to perceive that his trousers had been

er man, for, as his uncertain foot left the step of

his vehicle, one baggy leg of the garment fell down over his foot,

co some inches beneath A faintly

vexed expression crossed his face as he endeavored to arrange the

disorder, but he looked up and returned Briscoe's bow, sadly, with an air

of explaining that he was accustomed to trouble, and that the trousers had

behaved no worse than he expected

No ure than this feeble little oldreceived a

terrible visit frohbors of the Cross-Roads Mrs Wimby was a

ho owned a cohboring ill-eligible bachelors to share it However, a vagabonding

tinker won her heart, and after their e she continued to be known

as "Mrs Winificance that

it extended to his name, which proved quite unrememberable, and he was

usually called "Widder-Woman Wimby's Husband," or, more simply, "Mr

Wiar as the cause of their

anger, the Cross-Roads raiders, clad as "White-Caps," broke into the