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is miles away in the morning, with his chops all licked, 

 and lying by his master s door, as meek looking as if he 

 never dreamed of mutton. The owner of a steel trap is a 

 responsible being, but the owner of a dog seems to think 

 that his brute is what Mr. Spooner would call a free moral 

 agent, fit to do business on his own hook. He is not ac 

 countable for the deeds of his dog. I go in for trapping 

 rats, skunks, foxes, weasels, and other vermin. If we 

 must trap sheep and lambs, I prefer an article with steel 

 springs and chain, to a pair of living jaws on four legs. 

 The latter catches too much game. 



Yours to command, 



TIMOTHY BUNKER, ESQ. 

 Hookertown, May 10th, 1863. 







NO. 66. TIM BUNKER ON OLD STYLE HOUSE- 

 KEEPING. 



It was a rainy morning in August ; I had five tons of 

 hay down, and it was &quot; morally certain,&quot; as Mr. Spooner 

 says, when he is putting a thing strong, that I shouldn t 

 have any hay weather, so there was nothing to do but set 

 in the house, and see things grow. There is a great satis 

 faction in that, and blessed is that man who has his fields 

 and meadows where he can see them from his window. I 

 have seen some rather handsome pictures down in your 

 city in the Academy, and other places, but there are none 

 to compare with the view from my dining-room window. 

 There lies spread out before me, the horse-pond lot, all 

 nicely mowed, and looking as smooth as Mr. Olrnstead s 



