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a world of confidence and veracity depicted upon 

 his countenance. 



" There was Aby Sparks to Penobscot you know, 

 ladies and gentlemen, Aby Sparks, the son of Enoch 

 Sparks, who married Peggy Heath. Good family 

 the Sparkses very good family, as you know, ladies 

 and gentlemen. Eespectable people in a respectable 

 way of business, the general line drugs and cutlery, 

 and hats patent waterproof, bird-seed and jewellery, 

 tea and coffee pots, and shoes of the newest fashion. 

 Ladies and gentlemen, do you want a good tea or 

 coffee pot ] Partikler jam, they are, I reckon. Well, 

 Aby Sparks said to me, ' Jared Bundle,' says he, 

 ' leave me a dozen boxes or phials, whichever you 

 like, of your Palmyra sarve. "Wonderful stuff that ! ' 

 says he. ' What ! ' says I, ' leave you some of my 

 Palmyra sarve ! You're jist right to say it ain't 

 common apothecaries' stuff; that it certainly ain't. 

 But what would the ladies and gentlemen on the 

 lower Mississippi say if I left any of it here ? It's 

 all meant for them,' says I; 'they're my best 

 customers.' " 



" Soft sawder ! Jared Bundle," grunted a Ken- 

 tuckian. 



" Cart-grease and cobbler's wax," said a man of 

 Illinois. 



" He's from the north," laughed a third, " where 

 there's more wooden clocks than cows and calves." 



"Where the grasshoppers break their legs in 



