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carried their instruments, the smith being able to put a 
better edge on. Other blacksmiths or carpenters, if 
they required a particularly good edge for some purpose, 
came tohim. This art he had acquired from his grand- 
father as a sort of heirloom or secret. The grandfather 
while at work used to trouble and puzzle himself how 
to get a very sharp edge, and at length one night he 
dreamed how to do it. From that time he became 
prosperous. If a celebrated sonata was revealed in a 
dream, why not the way to sharpen a chisel ? 
When he was tired the drier said he was ‘ dreggy.’ 
They were talking of the lambs, and how that dry 
season they had scarcely any sweetbreads. The sweet- 
breads were so scanty, the butchers did not even offer them 
for sale; the lambs had fed on dry food. In seasons 
when there was plenty of grass and green food they had 
good large sweetbreads, white as milk. The character 
of the food does thus under some circumstances really 
alter the condition of an organ. The sweetbread is the 
pancreas ; now a deficient pancreatic action is supposed 
to play a great part in consumption and other wasting 
diseases. Have we here, then, an indication that when 
‘the pancreas may be suspected plenty of succulent food 
and plenty of liquid are nature’s remedies? We looked 
over at the pigs in the sty. They were rooting about 
in a mess of garbage. ‘Oh, what dirty things pigsare!’ 
said a lady. ‘Yes, ma’am; they’re rightly named,’ said 
he. Some scientific gentleman in the district had a 
large telescope with which he made frequent observa- 
tions, and at times would let a labouring man look at 
the moon. ‘Ah, said our friend, shaking his head in a 
solemn, impressive way, ‘my brother, he see through 
it; he see great rocks and seas up there. He say he 
never want to see through it no more. He wish he 
