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sented to leave most of his excess weight in camp 
and shoulder an axe on the baseline. Here he 
'' showed to slightly better advantage. But the har- 
assed expression which became habitual to the 
countenances of Wallace and Conway, and the omi- 
nous silence in which the baseline party filed into 
camp evening after evening, led us to suspect, as 
time wore on, that Wetherby’s endeavours were not 
resulting in a perfection of accomplishment. 
