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CHAPTER VI. 



THE FINISH. 



The Craft One Good Turn Another Compensation 

 Railroads Eastern Counties Norfolk Farming The 

 Eccentrics Strange Company A Tete-a-tete Publicola 

 A Constitutional Lawyer Stand-up Fight Two 

 Polished Gentlemen Dilemma Celebrated Duellist 

 Bold Stroke Lucky Escape The Fall of the Curtain. 



HAVING arrived at the last stage of 

 this not very eventful, and perhaps 

 not very amusing narrative, it will not 

 be thought irrelevant if I take a slight 

 view of my craft or fraternity before 

 it quite fell into almost utter oblivion. I 

 cannot, if I would, draw a correct por- 

 trait of any of my most celebrated 



