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me a suit of clothes for country wear. Tim's 

 notion of his -art is to construct the gar- 

 ments with a steady view to tightness of ex- 

 pression, if I may use the phrase. When I 

 got into his works, he exclaimed, in admiration 

 of the achievement he thought he had com- 

 passed, " Faix, yer honner looks as if you had 

 been melted into 'em." 



CHAPTER III. 



BEATING THE SPRINGS AND THE WOOD. 



DEVOTED as Uncle Joe was to sport, and to 

 everything connected with it, he was well 

 versed in current literature, and had the most 

 motley stock of novels, out of which he de- 

 rived a peculiar kind of ironical diversion. 

 He had assigned a special department in his 

 library to the lady romancists, and he used to 

 say that all their productions pleased him, 

 from a particular point of view, equally. In 

 bad weather we had generally a box of these 

 productions to open, which had been sent from 



