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sented to leave most of his excess weight in camp 

 and shoulder an axe on the baseline. Here he 

 showed to slightly better advantage. But the har- 

 assed expression which became habitual to the 

 countenances of Wallace and Conway, and the omi- 

 nous silence in which the baseline party filed into 

 camp evening after evening, led us to suspect, as 

 time wore on, that Wetherby's endeavours were not 

 resulting in a perfection of accomplishment. 



