I am told that this is not the first trick of the kind of which she has been guilty.

They say that she has a natural propensity to take things that are not her own." "I can hardly believe that." "Nor can I.But it's no harder to believe this than to believe that she would cheat Perkins out of fifteen of twenty yards of lawn.

It's a pity; for Mrs.Comegys, in every thing else, is certainly a very nice woman.

In fact, I don't know any one I visit with so much pleasure." Thus the circle of detraction widened, until there was scarcely a friend or acquaintance of Mrs.Comegys, near or remote, who had not heard of her having cheated a dry goods dealer out of several yards of lawn.

Three, it had first been alleged; but the most common version of the story made it fifteen or twenty.