I am tolerably comfortable, but confess I sometimes look back to my former roving life rather wistfully, for there is no life so merry as the traveller's." He was about the middle age and somewhat under the middle size.

I had a good deal of conversation with him, and was much struck with his frank, straightforward manner.

He enjoyed a high character at Llangollen for probity and likewise for cleverness, being reckoned an excellent gardener, and an almost unequalled cook.

His master, the travelling gentleman, might well leave him a handsome remembrance in his will, for he had not only been an excellent and trusty servant to him, but had once saved his life at the hazard of his own, amongst the frightful precipices of the Alps.

Such retired gentlemen's servants, or such publicans either, as honest A---, are not every day to be found.