WINKLE: THE EEL-MAN 



I. 



DOES the place make the people ? Cer- 

 tainly the mountaineer differs from 

 the dweller on a plain, and those who have 

 spent their days 'long shore are distinguish- 

 able from either. Who has failed to notice 

 that the country boy who leaves home for 

 the town becomes " citified" and in all ways 

 unlike his home-staying brother ? Certainly 

 the place has much to do with it, as much 

 as the mould decides the shape of the mass 

 of clay the potter places within it. Heredity, 

 too, afts an important part. There was a 

 Job Perriwinkle, servant, among the arrivals 

 in West Jersey two centuries ago, and the 

 Perriwinkles remained such for succeeding 

 generations : the last of them just a little 

 above that condition. These things con- 

 sidered, it is not strange that " Winkle," as 

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