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It is clear at a glance that the next workman is Adam's brother He is nearly as tall; he has the same type of features, the sath of the family likeness seems only to render more conspicuous the remarkable difference of expression both in forht stoop; his eyes are grey; his eyebrows have less prolance, instead of being keen, is confiding and benign He has thrown off his paper cap, and you see that his hair is not thick and straight, like Ada you to discern the exact contour of a coronal arch that predominates very decidedly over the brow

The idle traet a copper from Seth; they scarcely ever spoke to Adam

The concert of the tools and Ada the door at which he had been working intently, placed it against the wall, and said, "There! I've finished my door to-day, anyhow"

The workmen all looked up; Jim Salt, a burly, red-haired , and Adalance of surprise, "What! Dost think thee'st finished the door?"

"Aye, sure," said Seth, with answering surprise; "what's awanting to't?"

A loud roar of laughter from the other three workmen hter, but there was a slight sentler tone than before, "Why, thee'st forgot the panels"

The laughter burst out afresh as Seth clapped his hands to his head, and coloured over brow and crown

"Hoorray!" shouted a s the door "We'll hang up th' door at fur end o' th' shop an' write on't 'Seth Bede, the Methody, his work' Here, Jim, lend's hould o' th' red pot"

"Nonsense!" said Ada such a slip yourself soh o' th' other side o' your ood while afore my head's full o' th' Methodies," said Ben

"Nay, but it's often full o' drink, and that's worse"

Ben, however, had now got the "red pot" in his hand, and was about to begin writing his inscription, inary S in the air

"Let it alone, will you?" Ada up to Ben, and seizing his right shoulder "Let it alone, or I'll shake the soul out o' your body"