He has read widely, is well educated; but, above all, he is ever jolly, and his jollity is contagious.

Despite his investments and speculations, his brow never wears that sombre aspect of gloomy care, that knitted concentration of wrinkles seen on the face of the City man, who goes daily to his 'office.' The out-of-door bluffness, the cheery ringing voice, and the upright form only to be gained in the saddle over the breezy uplands, cling to him still.

He wakes everybody up, and, risky as perhaps some of his speculations are, is socially enlivening.
The two young gentlemen, by-the-by, observed playing lawn-tennis from the drawing-room window, are two of his pupils, whose high premiums and payments assist to keep up the free and generous table, and who find farming a very pleasant profession.

The most striking characteristic of their tutor is his Yankee-like fertility of resource and bold innovations--the very antipodes of the old style of 'clod-compeller.'.