a 70 - sidelong glance at Dame Vautoukle, and at the least frouresh of a broomstick or ladle would fly to the door with Eelping precipitation. Times grew worse and worse with Rifi rautintle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tenque is the only tool that grows keener by constant edge use. For a long while he used to console himself when driven pom home, by f frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers and other idle per the village held it's sessions that apolled on =sonages of a bunch fe before the is pole house, designated by portrait of his majesty george the third. Are they used to set in the shade, of a long lazy summers day. village gopip talk listlessly over or tell #endlys sleepystories about nothing. But it would have been worth any Timea statesmans heart good money to have heard the profound disccessions that sometimes took place, when by chance an old newspaper host fell into their hands M. S. Page. Sketch Book from the original in the possession of Mr JC. Brevoort. |