It was from Parker, who informed Mr.Morgeson that he was going by the morning's train to Boston, thinking it was time for him to leave his employ; that, though the fault was his own in the difficulty of the day before, a Yankee could not stand a knock-down.

It was too damned aristocratic for an employer to have that privilege; our institutions did not permit it.

He thanked Mr.Morgeson for his liberality; he couldn't thank him for being a good fellow.

"And would he oblige him by sending per bearer the arrears of salary ?" "Parker is in love with a factory girl.

He quarreled with one of the hands because he was jealous of him, and would have been whipped by the man and his friends; to spare him that, I knocked him down.