PORTRAIT OF OLD GRIM. 
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hypocrite and time-server, he so wriggled his adulatory 
as to secure every one’s good graces and nobody’s 
1 aspect. All the spare morsels, the cast-off delicacies 
° ( the mess, passed through the winnowing jaws of 
Grim,’—an illustration not so much of his eclecti- 
ClSm as his universality of taste. He was never known 
j re fuse any thing offered or approachable, and never 
° Wn to be satisfied, however prolonged and abundant 
t e bounty or the spoil. 
ur ini was an ancient dog: his teeth indicated many 
^nters, and his limbs, once splendid tractors for the 
were now covered with warts and ringbones. 
_ 1(3 how or other, when the dogs were harnessing for 
1 Journey, £ Qld Grim’ was sure not to be found; and 
P°n one occasion, 'when he was detected hiding away 
a cast-off barrel, he incontinently became lame. 
an S e to say, lie has been lame ever since except 
hen the team is away without him. 
^ ^ °id disagrees with Grim; but by a system of pa- 
Watchings at the door of our deck-house, accom- 
llle d by a discriminating use of his tail, he became 
at l ast . . ? . 
fia 1110 0116 l )nvJ ^ e o e d intruder. My seal-skm coat 
s been his favorite bed for weeks together. Wliat- 
he ° Ve *° r an * n( ^ v ^ ua l Grim expressed by his tail, 
aft C ° U ^ never be induced to follow him on the ice 
de° r C °^ darkness of the winter set in; yet the 
Ver sinner would wriggle after you to the 
"uth ^ lres k°^ bbe gangway, and bid you good-bye 
a deprecatory wag of the tail which disarmed 
Client. 
