10 MR. SPONGE'S SPOETING TOUR, 



CHAPTER III. 



PETER LEATHER. 



MR. SPONGE XEGOCIATING WITH BUCKKAM. 



Nothing bespeaks the character of a dealer's trade more than 

 the servants and hangers-on of the establishment. The civiler 

 in manner, and the better they are " put on," the higher the 

 standing of the master, and the better the stamp of the horses. 



Those about Mr. Buckram's were of a very shady order. Dirty- 



